Karnataka

Bengaluru, Feb 28: A tenth standard student was walking home with a prize and a garland when he was stabbed to death by three friends here on Monday. Harsharaj (16), a student of the Government High School, Yelahanka, had just been honoured at the school annual day for excelling in sports. The friends surrounded him near the railway track in Gandhinagar, just 200 metres from the school, at 3 pm

Bengaluru, Feb 28: Stating that Siddaramaiah led Congress government aims at making Karnataka a hut-free state, Housing Minister M Krishnappa said that nobody should remain homeless in the state. Inaugurating the state-level conference of the Karnataka Rajya Niveshana Rahitar Horata Samiti in Hubballi, he said that the state government has constructed G+3 flats in the city limits across the state

Mangaluru, Feb 28: As many as six persons have been arrested in Bantwal and Belthangady taluks of Dakshina Kananda for pelting stones on KSRTC buses and trying to create unrest during a district-wide hartal on February 25. In spite of permission denial by the police, the saffron groups had organized the hartal in the district to register their protest against the Mangaluru visit of Kerala Chief

Mangaluru, Feb 28: An Air India (AI) flight which was flying from Mumbai to Kochi made an emergency landing at the Mangaluru International Airport on Monday following a technical snag. AI 681, with 58 persons, including crew on board, landed at the airport safely at 6.36 p.m., said J.T. Radhakrishna, airport director. According to the airlines authorities, hydraulic pressure was low and hence

Mysuru, Feb 28: Reverend K A William was ordained as the seventh Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mysore at an elaborate ceremony here on Monday. Held at the St. Philomena’s Church precincts, the episcopal ordination and installation ceremony was witnessed by a large gathering of the devout. Rev. Thomas Anthony Vazhapilly, the outgoing Bishop, officiated the ordination ceremony in the

Kasaragod, Feb 28: A day after the startling message to his close relatives that Hafeezuddin, 26, a native of Padanna near Cheruvathur in Kasaragod district, who was among the 17 suspected to have joined the Islamic State, was killed in a drone strike, the police here are groping in the dark about the information. The Kerala police are still ascertaining the veracity of the information even as a

New Delhi, Feb 28: Gurmehar Kaur, daughter of Kargil martyr, who kicked up a row due to her stand against the BJP's student wing ABVP has withdrawn from Save DU campaign on Tuesday morning. Kaurs' tweet says she is withdrawing from the campaign. She says 'the campaign is about students and not about me'. She asks students to go to the March in huge numbers. Kaur's social media campaign against

Indore, Feb 27: Students' Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) chief Safdar Hussain Nagori and 10 other activists of the banned group were today awarded life imprisonment in a 2008 sedition case by a special court here. Special Additional Sessions Judge B K Paloda pronounced all the 11 SIMI activists guilty under IPC sections 124(A) (sedition) and 153 (A)(promoting enmity between different groups on

New Delhi, Feb 27: The campaign of a Kargil martyr's daughter against the ABVP today drew controversial reaction from BJP leaders with Union minister Kiren Rijiju wondering who was "polluting" her mind and another comparing her with wanted gangster Dawood Ibrahim. Pratap Simha, BJP MP from Mysuru, tweeted, "At least Dawood did not use the crutches of his father's name to justify his anti-national

Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 27: The abduction and assault of a noted actress rocked the Kerala Assembly proceedings today with the opposition alleging that the state government has "weakened the probe" into the infamous incident. During the Zero Hour, opposition Congress-led UDF members disrupted the proceedings and squatted at the Well of the House. They raised slogans alleging the government was not