Karnataka

New Delhi, Mar 8: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has issued a notice to internationally acclaimed orator Dr Zakir Naik asking him to join the investigation at the NIA headquarters on March 14. It is believed that Dr Naik, who is being targeted by Indian media and investigation agencies after coming to know that one of the suspects of last year’s Dhaka terror attack had liked the former’s

Bengaluru, Mar 8: Three scavengers suffocated to death after entering a 12-foot-deep manhole located on Kaggadasapura main road, Byappanahalli, east Bengaluru, early on Tuesday. The victims have been identified as Anjaneya Reddy (34), Eeraiah (35), and Davitha Naidu (40), all from Andhra Pradesh. The BWSSB has outsourced maintenance to Ramky Infrastructure. Though manual scavenging is banned, the

Mumbai/Belagavi, Mar 8: The Maharashtra police arrested Dr Babasaheb Khidrapure, the prime suspect in the sex determination and abortion racket in Belagavi on Tuesday. The Miraj police brought him to Mhaisal village. He was produced before the magistrate’s court, which remanded him in police custody till March 17. Praveen Jamdade (35), husband of Swati (26) who died during a forced abortion, was

New Delhi, Mar 8: The Supreme Court on Tuesday apparently found “nothing” in the Lokayukta report which was sufficient for initiation of criminal case against former Karnataka Chief Minister S M Krishna for allegedly dereserving about thousand acres of mineral-rich forest land in Ballari and other areas. “We have gone through the (Lokayukta) report threadbare, there is nothing in it against

Bengaluru, Mar 8: Pratibimba, a web-based platform will provide citizens access to information on flagship schemes, key programmes and projects of the state government. The platform, launched by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah in Bengaluru on Tuesday, will also enable citizens to check the performance and track actions taken on budget proposals and election manifestoes among others. The platform can

New Delhi, Mar 7: India’s richie rich club has shrunk by 11 people since the demonetisation last November, while Mukesh Ambani remains the richest Indian with a net worth of USD 26 billion, a study showed today. The country now has 132 billionaires with a net worth of USD 1 billion or more and the cumulative wealth of the ultra- rich people stood at USD 392 billion, according to Hurun Global Rich

Mangaluru, Mar 7: A woman from Puttur in Dakshina Kannada district, who was undergoing hardship in Saudi Arabia for around one-and-a-half-months after being duped by a travel agent, finally returned home safely thanks to the efforts of a few kind hearted NRI philanthropists. Fathima Banu (name changed) had landed in Saudi Arabia with an intention of earning a better livelihood and to support her

Gadchiroli, Mar 7: Suspended Delhi University professor GN Saibaba was on Tuesday awarded life imprisonment for having links with Maoists by a Gadchiroli court. The Sessions Court also convicted five others. All the six accused were convicted under Sections 13, 18, 20, 38, 39 of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and 120 B of the Indian Penal Code. Apart from Saibaba, those convicted were JNU

Patna, Mar 7: After stoking a controversy by demanding a review on the definition of `minorities`, Union Minister Giriraj Singh on Tuesday while defending his earlier remark, asserted the Muslim community should be brought above the `minority` category as there has been a rise in their population. "There should be debate on who is the minority in India. I just want to say that there has been a

Bengaluru, Mar 7: There has been a sudden and worrisome increase in the number of H1N1 cases in Karnataka in last couple of weeks. In the past one week, four more swine flu deaths were reported from Kolar, Shivamogga, Chikkamagaluru and Mysuru, taking the total death toll to seven since January. According to data from the Karnataka health and family welfare department, as many as 274 persons were