Karnataka

Mangaluru, Feb 10: Abu Dhabi based Bearys Welfare Forum (BWF) will be organising a mass wedding ceremony for the couples from economically backward families in the city on Saturday, February 11. Announcing this formally at a press conference in the city on Friday Mohammed Ali Uchil and Abdulla Madumoole, the president and general secretary of BWF respectively, said that they have already hosted

Mumbai, Feb 10: The Shiv Sena today hailed the development works done by successive Congress governments at the Centre and again targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying he is not ready to admit the "chaos" created by the note ban exercise. About Modi's "raincoat" remark against former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, it said being in power with the corrupt is also corruption. But for the work

Mangaluru, Feb 10: Prabha Shetty, a techie from Bantwal taluk in Dakshina Kannada, who was fatally stabbed in Australia nearly two years ago, may have been a victim of contract killing commissioned by persons known to her in her homeland, according to sources privy to the investigation. A three-member team from New South Wales police, headed by homicide department commander Richi Sim and

New Delhi, Feb 10: The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Thursday informed that India has on Wednesday handed over the request for extradition of embattled business tycoon Vijay Mallya received from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to the United Kingdom High Commission. "We have today handed over the request for extradition of Vijay Mallya as received from the CBI to the UK High

New Delhi, Feb 10: Two Delhi residents saved the lives of 193 people, including three infants, on Wednesday when they spotted a suspected “fire” on the tail of a flight and informed the police. However, denying the fire, GoAir said its Bengaluru-bound flight made an emergency landing at Indira Gandhi International Airport here at 1953 hours on Wednesday soon after takeoff, due to a technical

Mangaluru, Feb 10: St Agnes Centre for Post Graduate Studies and Research, Bendore Mangaluru on Thursday organised its one-day intercollegiate fest, AGNITE - 2K17Strive to Rule the Skies'. The programme was inaugurated at 9:30 a.m. in St Agnes PG Auditorium by the chief guest Mrs Vathika Pai, Proprietor of Vathika International Travels (A Unit of Nirmala Travels) along with the President of AGNITE

Bengaluru, Feb 10: A couple were arrested by the Bengaluru International Airport police in the early hours of Thursday in connection with a hoax call made to the Kempegowda International Airport to delay the take off of a Cochin-bound AirAsia flight. The flight was delayed by over six hours. Police said that they have detained Neha Gopinathan and Arjun, natives of Kerala who resided at the BTM

Ballari/Bengaluru, Feb 10: Former DySP Anupama Shenoy said on Thursday she had written to the governor, Assembly speaker, Council chairperson and the chief secretary, seeking permission to file charge sheets in the court against eight people in connection with her transfer from Kudligi last year. She has sought permission for filing chargesheets against Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, Home Minister G

Bengaluru, Feb 10: Senior Congress leader C K Jaffer Sharief on Thursday apologised to the people of the Kuruba community for hurting them by his recent comment. Sharief, who had been critical of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's style of functioning of late, had recently dubbed the state governmentKuruba government.' Siddaramaiah belongs to the Kuruba community. When journalists had sought Sharief's

Bengaluru, Feb 10: In a shocking revelation, Karnataka home minister G Parameshwara has said that a sub-inspector, who allegedly beat up a sand lorry driver in Gadag district, had also demanded a bribe from the latter. The death of lorry driver Shivappa a day after he was beaten up by the sleuths attached to Lakshmeshwar police station had triggered a major violence. Replying to a matter raised by