Karnataka

Bengaluru, Apr 9: A 41-year-old doctor was killed and his wife sustained injuries after their two-wheeler was hit by a car near Vidyaranyapura here on Saturday afternoon. According to the police, as Vital Kumar and his wife reached Vidyaranyapura bus-stop, a car driven by Vijay Benzer, 38, a software engineer, hit them. Both Dr. Kumar and his wife fell off the two-wheeler. “We are yet to determine

Kasaragod, Apr 9: Protests and hartals frequently being observed by various political parties for various reasons have created untold hardships for the people of the district, especially those residing in and around the communally sensitive Kasaragod town. The day-long hartal observed by the BJP on Saturday to protest following the death of Sandeep (28), a drunkard when he was being taken to

Panaji, Apr 9: Nearly six years ago, growing up at Bandra in Mumbai, 24-year-old mechancial engineer Mohammad Shams Aalam Shaikh's life centred around karate. A black belt holder and a qualified coach with over 40 gold medals to his credit, Shaikh enjoyed a carefree life. Till he was diagonsed with a tumour in his spine. Numerous surgeries later, his lower body was paralysed. On Saturday, at

Bengaluru, Apr 9: The Congress party has lodged a complaint with the Election Commission of India against BJP leader B?S?Yeddyurappa on the grounds that he was found distributing money in the Gundlupet constituency. A group of Congressmen led by N?S?Boseraju on Saturday submitted the complaint to the EC through the office of the chief electoral officer. The Congress has said that Yeddyurappa, the

Bengaluru, Apr 9: A Class XII student at Bethany Junior College, Rukaiya Abuwala, has secured the first rank in the International English Olympiad conducted by the Science Olympiad Foundation (SOF). Rukaiya stood first among candidates of 42,800 schools from 1,400 cities in 25 countries who took part in the six olympiads conducted by SOF. Rukaiya took the exam on January 31. Rukaiya has been

Mangaluru, Apr 8: Family members of Ahmed Qureshi, who is beating treated at a private hospital in Mangaluru after allegedly tortured by the police, have claimed that the City Crime Brach had tried to implicate him in the unsolved Karthik Raj murder case. BJP and other saffron groups have staged several protests in last few months to exert pressure on the police to nab the culprits in the murder

Maharajganj (UP), Apr 8: Police stopped a church event attended by more than 150 people, including 10 American tourists, here after the right-wing Hindu Yuva Vahini (HYV) alleged that religious conversion was being carried out. The event was stopped after the youth brigade, set up in 2002 by Yogi Adityanath, now the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, filed a complaint against Yohannan Adam, the pastor

Raipur, Apr 8: Her job is to read news on TV and Supreet Kaur did just that by reading the breaking news of her husband’s death in a road accident, leaving her shell-shocked colleagues speechless by her exemplary commitment. A news reader at Chhattisgarh’s private IBC-24 channel, Kaur kept her composure during Saturday morning’s live news bulletin as a reporter phoned in details of a fatal

Bengaluru, Apr 8: Karnataka BJP president B S Yeddyurappa was in the midst of a controversy today with a video footage of him handing over money to a farmer's family doing the rounds, ahead of the bypolls to two assembly constituencies. Responding to the attack by the ruling Congress, Yeddyurappa said he was giving relief of Rs one lakh to the family of a farmer, who had committed suicide recently

Lucknow, Apr 8: Union water resources minister Uma Bharti on Saturday said Ram temple in Ayodhya was a matter of belief for her and she was ready to go to jail for it. "Ram temple is a matter of belief for me and I have immense pride in it... if I have to go to jail for it I will go, if I have to hang myself for it I will do it," the firebrand BJP leader, who was part of Ram temple movement, told