Karnataka

Bhatkal, Apr 12: Maulana Shabbir Gangawali Nadvi, a religious scholar from Bhatkal, who was acquitted by a Mangaluru court on April 10 in an alleged terror link case, spoke about the nightmare he went through in the past decade after his arrest. Maulana, who returned his home in Bhatkal on April 11, a day after the judge confirmed his innocence, said he had been arrested only because he hailed

New Delhi, Apr 12: Senior Congress member and former Union law minister Veerappa Moily has slammed the party's decision to join the chorus against EVMs, calling it a "defeatist" mindset while arguing that the voting machines are beyond doubt. A day after Congress joined the bloc of 16 opposition parties to petition the Election Commission against voting machines, Moily expressed dismay that his

Agra, Apr 12: A leader of BJP's youth wing, Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), on Tuesday announced a reward of Rs 11 lakh "for cutting off the head" of West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee following a lathicharge in Suri, Birbhum district, to disperse a rally raising slogans of "Jai Sri Ram" on Hanuman Jayanti. Yogesh Varshney, former mandal president of BJYM in Aligarh, said the

Bengaluru, Apr 12: CBSE and ICSE school managements associations in the state have instructed their member schools to cap the annual fee hike at 10%. The decision was taken at their Annual General Meeting held on April 7, where representatives of more than 200 schools were present. “We came to the conclusion that schools should be self-regulatory and sensitive when increasing the fee. Almost all

Bengaluru, Apr 12: The Directorate of Social Security Pensions has found five lakh ineligible beneficiaries under various social security pension schemes in the state. Monthly pensions were being disbursed to dead persons and to those belonging to above poverty line families illegally under various schemes like old-age pension and widow pension. The government, as a result, had been incurring an

Bengaluru, Apr 12: Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board (KSEEB) will publish the scheme of evaluation and model answer scripts for first language, second language and mathematics papers of the SSLC examination on Wednesday. Students can file objections till 6 pm on April 14 against the model answers and evaluation scheme in 100 words. They may do so by logging in to the board’s website

Dubai, Apr 11: An Indian expat, Venugopal Passam, is now $1 million dollars richer after his ticket no. 2643 in the Dubai Duty Free Millennium Millionaire draw in Series 240, which was randomly selected online by his young son, was drawn on Tuesday at Concourse B in Terminal 3 at Dubai International Airport. Passam, a 31-year-old insurance broker living in Sharjah, couldn't believe his luck when

Cuddalore, Apr 11: A newly married woman allegedly murdered her husband by smashing his head with a grinding stone, upset that he was not handsome, police said today. The 22-year old woman, who got married about a week ago, attacked her husband fatally last night in their house here following a quarrel. Police said the woman started hating her husband, a wood sculptor in his mid 20s, because her

Bijnor, Apr 11: The Vice President of AIMPLB has said that the board will end the practice of triple talaq itself in one-and-a-half years so the government should not interfere in the matter. Kalbe Sadiq also advised the Muslims against eating beef. Sadiq, who was here yesterday to attend a programme, was speaking to reporters at the residence of President of District Civil Bar Association. The

Mysuru, Apr 11: Trendy marker pens will soon replace bottle and brush at polling booths in Karnataka for marking index fingers of voters with indelible ink as a proof that they have voted. Mysore Paints and Varnish Limited (MPVL), which is the sole supplier of ink for elections across India, has reportedly got clearances from the Election Commission for full-scale production. It supplies ink to a