Karnataka

New Delhi, Mar 20: The two Indian clerics, including the head priest of Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah, who went missing in Pakistan last week, returned to New Delhi on Monday. Syed Asif Ali Nizami, 80, and his nephew Nazim Ali Nizami, both clerics of Delhi's Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah, landed at the Delhi airport on Monday morning and later went to their home. They were welcomed at the airport by their

Hubballi, Mar 20: Activist and Samaj Parivartana Samudaya (SPS) founder-president S R Hiremath has warned Prime Minister Narendra Modi that he would lose his credibility of fighting black money and corruption if a “corrupt” man like former Karnataka chief minister S M Krishna is inducted into the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Addressing media persons here, Mr Hiremath said that the SPS had written

Mangaluru, Mar 20: The police have arrested two youths in connection with a case relating to an alleged bid to extort Rs 1 crore as ransom from a proprietor of a bar outlet at Thokkottu in Mangaluru taluk. A police Kasaragod police headed by Kumbla Circle Inspector V.V. Manoj arrested Ibrahim Khalil, 21, a resident of Meethanadukka locality in Dakshina Kannada district, and Abid, 21, a resident of

New Delhi, Mar 20: The Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Sunday congratulated Yogi Adityanath on becoming the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, and said it hoped that its long-standing demand for a Ram temple in Ayodhya would be fulfilled soon. VHP leader Pravin Togadia, who also congratulated Keshav Prasad Maurya and Dinesh Sharma for becoming deputy CMs, said U.P. would become an “uttam” (best)

Mangaluru, Mar 20: A 10-year-old girl student, who had suffered serious injuries after a swing rope got entangled around her neck, succumbed to her injuries at a hospital in Mangaluru. Akshitha, a Class 5 student of the government upper primary school at Gudde, near Manjeshwar suffered serious neck injuries when the swing rope got entangled around her neck while playing with her friends last week

Udupi/Mangaluru, Mar 20: While Udupi district has recorded two confirmed H1N1 deaths in first three months of 2017, Dakshina Kannada district has recorded first death of the year in March. Udupi district surveillance officer Dr Vasudev Upadyaya said the district has reported 58 positive cases since beginning of the year. "Earlier we used to see 10 suspected cases per day and now it has reduced to

Mangaluru, Mar 20: Nearly three months after Dakshina Kannada BJP MP Nalin Kumar Kateel threatened to set the entire district on fire if the police failed to arrest the accused in Karthik Raj murder case, a local businessman has announced Rs 1 lakh cash award to the police, if they catch the culprits within a month. The reward was announced by Prakash Shetty, businessman and a resident of

Allahabad, Mar 20: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Mohammed Shami was shot dead by some bike-borne assailants here last night. According to initial reports, the accused shot Shami near his house. Shami was a history sheeter. In the recently concluded Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, Shami had contested against six times winner from the Kunda constituency Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias 'Raja Bhaiya'

Bengaluru, Mar 20: In has now come to light that sites were allotted to the four daughters of Legislative Assembly Speaker K?B?Koliwad by a housing cooperative society in violation of rules. Employees of the legislature secretariat had set up the “Karnataka Legislature Secretariat Employees’ House Building Cooperative Society” for allotment of sites to its members at a layout at Gasti Kampanahalli

Mangaluru, Mar 19: A 12-year-old boy died on the spot after being knocked down by a speeding car near Uppinangady town in Dakshina Kannada district on Sunday. The victim has been identified as Nafil Husain, son of Ibrahim, a resident of Nelyady in Uppinangady. He was a class 7 student. According to sources, the boy was riding his bicycle towards his home on national highway 75 at Morankala Nelyady