Karnataka

Bengaluru, Nov 24: Two engineering students lost their lives after their motorbike rammed the median and a tree on New BEL Road on Wednesday. Both of them were not wearing helmets, according to police. Gunavantha Sai and Vishnu Naidu, both 19 years old, were students of MS Ramaiah Institute of Technology. They were heading back to their paying guest accommodation on 80 Feet Road in Sanjaynagar

Bengaluru, Nov 24: The van, carrying banknotes worth Rs 1.37 crorewhich went missing after its driver drove away with the cash, was on Thursday morning found abandoned in Bengaluru's Vasanth Nagar locality, police said here. Currency notes worth Rs 45 lakh and a gun were also recovered from the abadoned van. On Wednesday, the van driver transporting cash to ATMs allegedly drove away with banknotes

New Delhi, Nov 24: Stepping up the opposition tirade against demonetisation, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today castigated the government and the Prime Minister over the move, saying its implementation was a "monumental management failure" and a case of "organised loot and legalised plunder." Singh, who spoke in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Rajya Sabha, said the decision

Kasargod, Nov 24: In a fresh case ofimmoral policing,' miscreants belonging to a saffron outfit allegedly attacked a brother and sister when they were walking along the road near Badiadukka here. The attack occurred at Baradkka locality around 8 p.m. on Tuesday. The Badiadukka police registered cases against Rupesh and Mithun following a complaint by Manjunath, a CPI (M) loyalist, that he and his

Belagavi, Nov 24: The BJP and Congress members sparred over the proposed Rs 12,912-crore Yettinahole drinking water project in the Legislative Council on Wednesday. In response to a query by Kota Srinivas Poojary (BJP), Water Resources Minister M B Patil said drinking water would be provided to Kolar, Chikkaballapur, Chitradurga and Bengaluru Rural districts, at the earliest. With a majority of

Madikeri, Nov 24: Terming the incident of Qur'an copy burning at a masjid in Igurul near Somwarpet, as an attempt to trigger violence, Kodagu District Muslim Youth Federation has urged police to arrest the culprits within 15 days. Speaking to reporters here on Wednesday, Altaf, Hakattur unit secretary of the Federation, said that the miscreants also set lawyer Padmanabha's car on fire. He said MLA

Bareilly, Nov 24: A 15-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a class IX student following a tiff over a scrapped Rs 500 note in Badaun. According to the survivor's family, the accused abducted her and took the girl to a nearby field where she was assaulted. The incident took place on Monday evening when the girl was alone at home after her family had left for a hospital in Badaun. According to

Mangaluru, Nov 24: An Air India Express flight, bound for Dammam, made an emergency landing at Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL) on Wednesday evening following an instance of suspected fire. The emergency landing was made at 7.20 pm. A spokesperson from CIAL said that the flight, which had left the Mangaluru International Airport, took a diversion of route and made an emergency landing

New Delhi, Nov 23: Seeking to starve internationally acclaimed Islamic orator Dr Zakir Naik and his organisation of funds, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) today asked banks to freeze accounts belonging to him and his Islamic Research Foundation, which has been banned under the anti-terror law. Official sources said all the banks, where Dr Naik's and his organisation's accounts were in

New Delhi, Nov 23: Five foreign nationals have been booked for allegedly misbehaving with Air India cabin crew onboard the national carrier's city-bound flight from Sydney, police said today. Action has been taken against the five foreign nationals for misbehaving with the crew of Air India flight AI 301 from Sydney to Delhi, an Air India official said today. The complaint was filed after the