Karnataka

Bengaluru, Jan 4: The police on Tuesday registered a suo moto FIR in connection with molestation of women during the New Year's Eve. City police commissioner Praveen Sood told DH, “Based on evidence provided by a citizen, a suo motu case was taken up and a FIR registered. The details of the evidence, the person who gave the evidence and the police station where the FIR has been registered cannot

Mangaluru, Jan 4: A jurisdictional magistrate court on Tuesday directed the police to investigate the alleged hate speech on Sunday by Dakshina Kannada Lok Sabha member Nalin Kumar Kateel. The Konaje police, before whom a complaint was made by Congress leaders in this connection, would investigate the case, said Deputy Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) M. Shantharaju. The MP reportedly said

New Delhi, Jan 4: In what is believed to be the biggest ever crackdown on Mumbai serial blasts mastermind Dawood Ibrahim, a report on Tuesday claimed that the UAE government has seized the fugitive underworld don's assets worth Rs 15,000 crore. News Media on Tuesday claimed that Dawood has several properties, including hotels and shares in top rung companies in UAE. The UAE authorities have also

Mangaluru, Jan 3: Mangaluru city police chief M Chandra Sekhar has said that a court's direction is must to register an FIR against Daskshina Kannada BJP MP Nalin Kumar Kateel as his offence wasnon-cognisable.' He said that the police have already submitted a report to the JMFC court in connection with two separate complaints against Mr Kateel under Section 506 of the IPC for his provocative

New Delhi, Jan 3: A charge sheet has been filed by CBI against social activist Teesta Setalvad, her husband Javed Anand and a company run by them for alleged violation of foreign funding rules. The charge sheet, which has listed the firm Sabrang Communications and Publishing Private Limited and a man named Sushma Raman, was filed on Saturday in a court in Mumbai, CBI spokesperson R K Gaur said

New Delhi, Jan 3: The National Commission for Women (NCW) today issued summonses to Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara and SP leader Abu Azmi over their objectionable remarks on the alleged incident of mass molestation of women in Bengaluru on New Year Eve. "We have sent summonses to both of them (Parameshwara and Azmi) for their statements," NCW chairperson Lalitha Kumaramangalam said. "It

Mumbai, Jan 3: To mitigate hardships of poor and marginal farmers due to cash deficit following demonetisation, the Reserve Bank today directed banks to distribute at least 40 per cent of currency notes in rural areas. The 50-day exercise ended on December 30, but the cash supply situation is yet to ease in certain pockets. As a result, the government has not lifted the withdrawal ceiling of Rs 24

Belgavi, Jan 3: To put an end to the mass copying menace in examination, the department of public instruction asked all the 212 government, aided and non-aided SSLC examination centres to install CCTV cameras by the end of January, or face the axe from the test centre list. In this connection, the department of public instruction clarified that of the SSLC examination centres across the district

New Delhi, Jan 3: BJP never did nor will it do politics of religious polarisation, Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said, stressing that the "secular" parties need to be cautious in the wake of the Supreme Court order that candidates should not seek votes in the name of religion, caste or creed. Asked if his party will raise the issue of Ram temple in the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls

Islamabad, Jan 3: The much-awaited bill to regulate marriages of minority Hindus in Pakistan on Monday moved closer to reality after a Senate committee approved the landmark draft legislation, nearly four months after it was passed by the National Assembly. The Hindu Marriage Bill 2016 will become a law after it will be passed by the Senate, the upper house of the Parliament. The Senate Functional