Karnataka

Mangaluru, Nov 15: Unidentified miscreants pelted stones at a mosque under the limits of Ullal police station in Mangaluru taluk in the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday. The incident came to light when local residents came to mosque for Fajr Namaz early on Tuesday morning. A glass pane fixed above the door of Rahmaniya mosque located in Ullal Pete has been broken in the attack. Broken glass

New York, Nov 15: PepsiCo's India-born CEO Indra Nooyi has said Hillary Clinton's defeat in the elections has left her daughters, gay workers, employees and the non-whites devasted as there was "serious concern" among them about their safety in the US with Donald Trump as president. "Do you have a box of tissues here," Nooyi, a staunch Clinton supporter, said at the New York Times Dealbook

New Delhi, Nov 15: A small mark of indelible ink, used mostly during elections to prevent multiple voting, will be put on the right hand finger of those exchanging banned 500 and 1,000 rupee notes for new ones from tomorrow to prevent crowding at banks by repeat exchangers. As per the assessment of Finance Ministry, bank counters are getting overcrowded due to same people turning up again and

Mangaluru, Nov 15: City based Help India Foundation in conjunction with Naseema Institute of Speech and Hearing will be organising a free digital hearing aid and evaluation camp on December 11 at town hall in Mangaluru. Announcing this at a press meet here recently on behalf of the Foundation, food and civil supplies minister U T Khader said that as many as 50 digital hearing aids will be provided

New Delhi, Nov 15: People in large numbers started queuing up outside ATMs and banks since early morning today to withdraw valid currency notes from vending machines and exchange demonetised bills. While banks remained closed yesterday on account of Guru Nanak Jayanti in many parts of the country, cash-starved customers again were disappointed today with most of the ATMs running out of the cash

Mangaluru, Nov 15: Two persons were killed and a few houses suffered damages in Dakshina Kannada district due to lighting strike on Monday as the coastal Karnataka received sporadic rainfall. The victims of lightning strikes have been identified as Naveen Kumar (35), a labourer from Koradelu near Nelyady village in Puttur taluk, and Neelayya Poojary (60), a farmer from Karambaru village in

Guntur, Nov 15: Prime accused in the suicide of a PG student of Guntur Medical College and senior professor of Gynaecology V.V. Lakshmi was arrested on Monday afternoon in Bengaluru. A special team of Guntur Urban Police apprehended Dr. Lakshmi and her husband, Y. Vijaya Saradhi, a senior professor of Surgery, at a house in Bengaluru. The duo is being brought to Guntur in a car and is expected to

Mangaluru, Nov 15: Sleuths of Konaje police station in Mangaluru taluk have averted a possible attack on innocents by catching two motorbike-borne miscreants with lethal weapons. The suspects have been identified as Dhanush and Sharath, both aged around 25 years and residents of Mudipu village. Two sharp weapons have also been recovered from them. It is alleged that they have links with a saffron

Bengaluru, Nov 15: While the BJP has demanded the resignation of primary and secondary education minister Tanveer Sait, chief minister Siddaramaiah on Monday ordered a probe into the case by cybercrime sleuths attached to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). Sait was caught viewing obscene photographs on his mobile phone during Tipu Jayanti celebration in Raichur on November 10. "Sait has

Chikkamagaluru, Nov 15: Four suspected Maoists surrendered before the Chikkamagaluru district administration on Monday. While two of them were arrested and sent to judicial custody, the two others were let off. Nilguli Padmanabh and his wife Bharathi and Parashuram and his wife Rizwana Begum are the suspected Maoists who appeared before the district administration, following mediation by