Karnataka

Mangaluru, Feb 23: A two-wheeler rider lost his life in a road accident near Alake in the city on Thursday morning. The victim has been identified as Ganesh (29), a resident of Kudroli area in the city. It is learnt that Ganesh was on his way to work on his scooter after finishing breakfast at home. When he reached Alake, he lost balance and fell on the road. Within a couple of seconds he was run

New Delhi, Feb 23: Doctors who carry out Caesarean operations without a valid medical reason must be “named and shamed”, said Union Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi who has also written to the health minister on the issue. Gandhi wants Health Minister J P Nadda to make it mandatory for hospitals to display their rate of Caesarean, also known as C-section, deliveries in response

Puttur, Feb 23: Communal tension prevailed for some time at Koila village in Puttur taluk after a group of Hindutva activists gheraoed the house of a Muslim cleric questioning the presence of three girls belonging to another religion. This led to a clash between two groups on Tuesday night and a few youths from both sides sustained injuries. According to police said three students from GSSS

Gurugram, Feb 23: A woman working with NGO Delhi Study Group has accused former Delhi BJP MLA Vijay Jolly, who heads the organisation, of raping her inside a resort on the Delhi-Jaipur expressway earlier this month. An FIR has been registered at the Women Police Station at Sector 51 here. ‘Couple threatened me’ The woman’s complaint, however, comes four days after Mr. Jolly registered a case

Mangaluru, Feb 23: Dakshina Kannada district police have arrested 14 suspected Bangladeshi nationals for their alleged illegal stay at a construction site at Kashipatna village in Belthangady taluk. The arrested are Mohammed Jahangir (26), Abdul Hakeem (25), Mohammed Alangeer (27), Abdul Haleem (19), S.D. Mohammed Azizullah (19), S.D. Babu (20), Joharul Islam (24), Mohammed Sohidul Islam (30)

Bengaluru, Feb 23: Janata Dal (Secular) state president H?D Kumaraswamy has reiterated that he has evidence to prove his charge that money through cheques was sent to BJP in Delhi during the BJP regime in the state. Replying to questions by reporters here on Wednesday, he said, “Yeddyurappa has challenged me to release evidence in this regard. I have sufficient proof to show that the cheques were

Bengaluru, Feb 23: Food production in Karnataka is set to fall short of the stated target by a whopping 35% in the current financial year on account of successive years of drought. The state will produce only 91.45 lakh tonnes of foodgrain against the target of 140 lakh tonnes, Minister for Agriculture Krishna Byre Gowda said here on Wednesday. The drastic reduction in foodgrain production has

Mysuru, Feb 22: A?Lokayukta superintendent of police and his driver were killed in a road accident near Kumbalgodu on Wednesday. Ravi Kumar (32), posted in Mysuru, and his driver Kiran Kumar (34) were travelling from Bengaluru to Mysuru and were in Ramohalli near Kumbalgodu, around 30 km from the city, when their Swift Dzire met with an accident at 7.45 pm. According to the police, Kiran lost

Mangaluru, Feb 22: Eight youths have been arrested by the Mangaluru city police in connection with the murder of Prathap Poojary at Maroli on wee hours of Sunday on February 19. They have recovered bike, lethal weapons used for the crime from them. The arrested have been identified as Sagar Poojary, 21, resident of Veeranagar; Mithun, 25, resident of Maroli; Kaushik, 26, resident of Veeranagar

Karwar, Feb 22: Central Investigation Department (CID) has given clean chit to singer Premalatha and her husband Divakar in connection with alleged blackmail case filed by Sri Ramachandrapura Mutt and its Seer Raghaveshwara Bharathi Swami. On Wednesday, the CID team submitted ‘B’ report to the Honnavara JMFC court stating that there was no solid evidence to prove the allegations made against