Karnataka

Chikkamagaluru, Mar 4: The fight for drinking water has spread to Chikkamagaluru, which shut down on Saturday in protest against the release of water from Yagachi reservoir in the district to Hemavathi reservoir in the neighbouring Hassan district and to put pressure on the government to preserve water at Yagachi dam for supply to this Malnad town. This comes days after the government released

Mangaluru, Mar 4: Aditya, son of Prathima and Om Prakash Barnval couple, is the only candidate from Karnataka qualified to attend a four-week Orientation cum Selection camp (OCSC) in the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education and Research in Mumbai from where the international team gets selected. Based on aggregate scores in OCSC, six students will represent India at the International Olympiads

Mangaluru, Mar 4: Following a detailed study carried out under its ‘Shudda Gaali’ project in association with St. George’s Homeopathy, APD Foundation has submitted its technical report and assessment of air quality levels of Mangaluru city to B. Ramanath Rai, Hon’ble Minister for Ecology, Forests & Environment & DK District In-Charge. A delegation comprising APD Foundation Founder Abdullah A

Hyderabad, Mar 4: Police have arrested an elderly couple for allegedly assaulting and driving away their daughter-in-law from their house after their son living in the US sent talaq message to his wife on WhatsApp. Mohammed Hafeez and his wife Athiya were arrested by the Hyderabad city police on charge of assaulting and outraging the modesty of their daughter-in-law Mehren Noor. The couple were

Kannur, Mar 4: Eight people, including five nuns, have been booked for their role in hiding facts related to the alleged rape of a minor girl by a vicar of a church in the district. The in-charge of the private hospital at Kuthuparamba in the district, where the 16-year-old girl gave birth to a boy on February 17, and two others, besides the nuns, have been booked under non-bailable sections of

Bengaluru, Mar 4: A man from Karnataka has sought help from Sushma Swaraja, the Minister of External Affairs, to rescue his wife from Saudi Arabia, where she is allegedly under illegal confinement. Baskaran, a mason in Bengaluru, said his wife Ranjitha was offered employment in Saudi Arabia by Kavitha from Bengaluru and Meeran Nagur from Chennai. “She has been in Saudi Arabia for eight months (and

New York, Mar 4: A 43-year-old Indian-origin store owner in the US has been shot dead outside his home, just days after an Indian engineer was killed in Kansas in a hate crime shooting that had sent shockwaves across the country. Harnish Patel, 43, the owner of a convenience store in Lancaster County, South Carolina, was found dead of gunshot wounds in the front yard of his home on Thursday

New Delhi, Mar 4: In Prime Minister Narendra Modi is all set to visit Israel in July this year as both countries prepare to celebrate 25th anniversary of establishment of diplomatic relations. It would be the first-ever visit by an Indian PM to the Zionist state, which is responsible for massacre of thousands of Palestinians. Interestingly, Modi’s controversial tour will not see him travelling to

New Delhi, Mar 4: Former IFS and MP Syed Shahabuddin passed away on Saturdaymorning at a hospital in Noida after suffering from prolonged illness. He was 82. During his time, Shahabuddin had strongly opposed the demolition of the Babri Masjid and was the leader of the Babri Action Committee. Born in 1935, in Ranchi, Jharkhand, Shahabuddin began working as a diplomat for the Indian Foreign Service

Bengaluru, Mar 4: Karnataka BJP chief B S Yeddyurappa has claimed that several prominent Congress leaders in the state are knocking on the doors of the BJP. Speaking to media persons, he said that a minister in Siddaramaiah government and more than 10 Congress MLAs are willing to embrace the saffron party ahead of 2018 assembly polls. “We will welcome them only if they resign three to four months