Karnataka

Bengaluru, Jan 2: A joyride to celebrate the dawn of New Year atop Nandi Hills ended in a tragedy. Two engineering students died after their car jumped the road divider and hit a cab coming from the opposite direction at Palanahalli Gate, Ballari Road, on Sunday. Krishna Kisore, 21, driving a Maruti Swift, died on the spot. His friend, Santosh, 21, seated with him in the front, succumbed to

New Delhi, Jan 2: In a majority verdict, the Supreme Court today held that any appeal for votes on the ground of "religion, race, caste, community or language" amounted to "corrupt practice" under the election law provision. Referring to the term 'his religion' used in section 123(3) of the Representation of The Peoples (RP) Act, which deals with 'corrupt practice', Chief Justice T S Thakur and

Bengaluru, Jan 2: The Garden City of India this time welcomed New Year by molesting women hundreds of women on MG Road, Brigade road and other bustling areas in spite of the presence of police. According to a Bengaluru based newspaper, the main streets of the city saw thousands of men mobbing the revellers, and groping and trash talking the women in the streets in the intervening night of Saturday

Mangaluru: Cong protests against BJP MP's arson threat, files complaintMangaluru, Jan 2: Bharatiya Janata Party leader and Dakshina Kannada MP Nalin Kumar Kateel, who on Sunday triggered a controversy by threatening to arson his own constituency, later said that he did not mean that. Addressing a protest meet in front of Konaje police station on Sunday Mr Kateel said: “We (Sangh Parivar) are

Mangaluru, Jan 2: A Non-resident Indian, who had returned from abroad, was killed after his motorbike collided with a jeep near Koranja school in Gerukatte of Belthangady taluk on Sunday. The Belthangady police said that the victim, Sharfuddin Aboobacker (27), a resident of Perne, had returned from Gulf on Saturday. As he was riding from Guruvayanakere towards Uppinangady, Sharfuddin lost control

Chikkamagaluru, Jan 2: The Chikkamagaluru Town police have arrested Vishva Hindu Parishad leader Praveen Khandya in connection with a case that was registered against him for obstructing police personnel in the execution of their duty during the Dattamala Abhiyana in 2011. Khandya, who is the main suspect in the suicide of DySP Kallappa Handibag and kidnap of businessman Tejas Gowda, has obtained

KR Pet, Jan 2: Political rivalry claimed the life of one more JD(S) worker in Mandya district on Saturday night. The police said Harish alias Gunda (32), son of Rajegowda of Marukanahalli in KR?Pet taluk, was hacked to death by five men when he was celebrating New Year with his friends. As many as four JD(S) workers have been reportedly murdered in the district in the past 10 days. As soon as the

Vatican City, Jan 1: Pope Francis in his New Year's greetings today declared 2017 will be good to the degree that people do good and reject hatred, as he prayed for those courageously dealing with terrorism gripping the world in "fear and bewilderment." "The new year will be good in the measure in which each of us, with the help of God, tries to do good, day by day, that's how peace is created,"

Mangaluru, Jan 1: Nalin Kumar Kateel, a senior BJP leader and Member of Parliament from Dakshina Kannada, on Sunday welcomed the New Year by threatening to arson his own constituency after accusing the police of inefficiency. The hardline Hindutva leader was speaking at a protest meet organised by the Hindu Hitharakshana Vedike in front of the Konaje police station in Mangaluru taluk after a

Malappuram, Jan 1: In a shocking incident of medical apathy, a Dalit woman delivered a baby in the toilet of a medical college here after a nurse sent her to relieve herself instead of taking her complaint of pain seriously, her family said on Saturday. According to close relatives of the woman, admitted to the Manjeri Medical College and Hospital here, the staff displayed an "indifferent attitude