Karnataka

Mangaluru, Nov 29: Mangaluru city police have busted a gang of five on Tuesday early hours, that had cheated a co-operative bank with fake documents of four lorries to secure second loans to the tune of Rs 93.94 lakh. Disclosing this to reporters on Tuesday, Police Commissioner M?Chandra Sekhar said the accused are Anil Kiran Noronha, a professional driver and resident of Kulshekar, Sudheer, a

Dubai, Nov 29: An Indian expatriate in Dubai walked a total of over 1,000 km for over two years to attend court proceedings in a bid to return home, a newspaper reported on Tuesday. Jagannathan Selvaraj, 48, who hails from Tiruchirappalli in Tamil Nadu, told the Khaleej Times that he braved traffic, heat, sandstorm and exhaustion to attend the labour court proceedings. Mr Selvaraj began his court

Mumbai, Nov 29: Marking a victory for campaign for gender equality in places of worship, a group of women activists today entered the sanctum sanctorum of Haji Ali dargah here and offered prayers. The entry by members of Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA) into the mausoleum came more than a month after the Haji Ali Dargah Trust told the Supreme Court it will allow women inside the inner

Bengaluru, Nov 29: Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah has hit back at BJP national president Amit Shah for calling his government the most corrupt in the country. He said Shah escaped going to jail in a murder case only because Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister. On the sidelines of the BengaluruITe.biz event, Siddaramaiah alleged that "Shah barely escaped from the clutches of the CBI in a

Belagavi (Ktk), Nov 29: Karnataka Assembly today adopted a joint committee report to amend House rules and procedures according to which an adjournment motion can be allowed only after the Question Hour and the Zero Hour. It also specifies about the commencement and conclusion of the sitting, makes reply to questions compulsory, and defines terms like quorum, sitting and zero hour. The amendments

Nov 29: Balwinder Singh, a taxi driver in Punjab, was in for a big surprise on 4 November when he got a whopping Rs 9,806 crore in his Jan Dhan account in State Bank of Patiala. However, the amount was withdrawn the very next day. Singh has told the newspaper that when he visited the bank branch, the staff took his passbook and issued another one without entering the Rs 9,806 crore credit and

Malappuram, 29: The motive behind the coldblooded murder of neo-convert Faisal alias Anil Kumar was to prevent the spread of Islam, according to police. The police have so far arrested eight persons belonging to BJP and RSS in connection with the murder that took place on November 19 at Kodinhi near Tirurangadi in the district. The arrested include Pullani Vinod (39), brother-in-law of Faisal. The

Mangaluru, Nov 29: Admitting a special leave petition, the Supreme Court has ordered to issue notice to Naresh Shenoy alias NaMo Naresh, the prime accused in the murder of RTI activist Vinayak Baliga. Ramachandra Baliga, father of Vinayak Baliga, had filed special leave petition before the Supreme Court challenging a Karnataka High Court order that granted bail to NaMo Shenoy, the leader of Yuva

Bengaluru, Nov 29: The van driver of a logistics agency, who had allegedly fled with Rs 1.37 crore cash collected from banks here, was today apprehended, police said. This comes a day after the driver's wife was arrested. "The driver, Dominic Roy, who had fled with the cash van, has been arrested by Upparpet Police this morning near the tin factory situated at K R Puram," DCP West Anucheth said

Kasargod, Nov 29: Police here are understood to have received vital inputs on the modus operandi of the gangsters who had been using fake credit cards of people settled abroad. A team of officials led by Kasaragod Town Circle Inspector C.A. Abdul Rasheed, had who returned here from Mumbai along with the two accused persons on Monday, is reported to have said that gangsters managed to procure the