Karnataka

Mangaluru, Mar 14: Naresh Shenoy aka NaMo Naresh, the main accused in the murder of RTI activist Vinayak Panduranga Baliga has been booked for wrongful restraint and threat to kill, here on Tuesday. According to police, Bharat Kamath, 29, resident of Mannagudde has filed a complaint at Mangaluru South Police that Naresh Shenoy, who recently released from jail on bail and founder of NaMo Brigade

Managluru, Mar 14: Even as the ruling Congress in Karnataka is busy preparing strategy for Nanjangud and Gundlupet byelections, former KPCC president B Janardhana Poojary on Tuesday predicted that the party would lose both the seats if Siddaramaiah continued as chief minister. The veteran Congress leader urged the Congress high command to replace Siddaramaiah with home minister G Parameshwara

Luxembourg, Mar 14: European companies can ban employees from wearing religious or political symbols, including the Islamic headscarf, the E.U.’s top court ruled on Tuesday in a landmark case. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) said it does not constitute “direct discrimination” if a firm has an internal rule banning the wearing of “any political, philosophical or religious sign”. The Luxembourg

Davangere, Mar 14: Two persons, said to be members of the Hindu Jagaran Vedike, have been arrested in connection with the episode of smearing black oil on the face of progressive writer and thinker Yogesh Master in Davangere on Sunday. The arrests were made on Monday by four separate teams of police formed to inquire into the attack. The arrested have been identified as Chetan and Shivaprasad

Panaji, Mar 14: For Manohar Parrikar, the BJP's poster boy in Goa, it's a homecoming and another stint as chief minister of the coastal state. Despite failing to secure a simple majority in the assembly polls, the BJP managed to successfully stitch an alliance with two regional parties besides gaining the support of two Independents. Right from the start of campaigning in the state, the BJP had

Bengaluru, Mar 14: In a fresh embarrassment to the Bharatiya Janata Party in Karnataka, one of its MLAs was caught on camera assaulting the manager of a toll plaza on the Bengaluru-Mumbai highway. A CCTV clip, which went viral on Tuesday, clearly shows Suresh Gowda, the BJP MLA from Tumakuru Rural constituency entering the toll booth office at Kyathasandra along with his supporters on Friday and

New Delhi, Mar 14: The Dalit JNU scholar who allegedly committed suicide had previously been a student of the Hyderabad University and was at the forefront of the movement against the varsity's administration following the suicide of Rohith Vemula. Twenty-eight-year-old Muthu Krishnan, who was from Tamil Nadu's Salem district, completed his MPhil from the University of Hyderabad (UoH) in 2015

Bengaluru, Mar 14: A BJP leader, Srinivas Prasad known as Kithaganahalli Vasu (45), was hacked to death on Tuesday morning by unidentified assailants in Bengaluru rural district. He was a member of Bommasandra Municipal council. Srinivas Prasad received call around 5 am in the morning and left home in his car at 5.30 am. Suspects accosted and stoned his vehicle at truck terminus on Hosur Road

Bengaluru, Mar 14: A Customs official has been booked on the charge of sexually assaulting a CISF woman constable who works at the city airport, police said on Monday. "We have filed an FIR against Customs officer Hemaraj Gurjar, on a complaint by the victim that he had sexually exploited her after promising to marry her but backed out later," Bengaluru North-East Deputy Commissioner of Police P.S

Managluru, Mar 14: Muhammad Saleem aka Saleem Ustad, aged about 50, is a madrasa teacher in Chokkabettu near Surathkal in Mangaluru taluk. He recently got chest pain and was diagnosed of heart blockage that needed a major surgery. He was admitted to A.J. Hospital in Mangaluru on Feb. 24, 2017. A surgery was conducted by cardiologist Dr. Praveen Shetty in AJ Hospital and it was successful. It cost