Karnataka

Mangaluru, Nov 12: Two Muslim youths including a college student were stabbed by violence mongers at Manjanady Kattemar and Ansar Nagar under the limits of Konaje police station in Mangaluru taluk on Saturday evening. The stabbings occurred a day after U T Khader, the local MLA and minister for food and civil supplies, urged the Mangaluru city police chief to take necessary steps to prevent the

Bengaluru, Nov 12: Police has booked a reporter and a cameraman of a news channel on a complaint by Minister Tanvir Sait, who was allegedly caught looking at girls pictures sent to him by someone on WhatsApp during at a public function. The case was registered against the scribe and the cameraman, who had taken the controversial footage, even as Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah today said

Mirzapur, Nov 12: It was fish, it was weed, no wait - it was the now-defunct currency notes that came floating down the Ganga today. The no-longer-in-use 500 and 1000-rupee notes were spotted by people bathing in the river in Mirzapur in Uttar Pradesh. The police arrived to check out the notes; so did large crowds. On Wednesday, sacks full of the high denomination notes were found abandoned in the

Chikkamagaluru, Nov 12: Within days of introduction of the new Rs 2,000 currency note, a farmer in Karnataka's Chikkamagaluru was cheated by an unknown person with a photocopy of the note on Saturday morning. Ashok, an onion grower, had brought onion bags to the APMC market in the town. An unknown person who purchased onion from him, handed him a Rs 2,000 note and said it was a new note and valid

New Delhi, Nov 12: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said it would take 2-3 weeks to recalibrate ATMs machines to enable them to dispense new notes. Following demonetisation of currency ATMs across the country are witnessing long queues as people are flocking to them to draw currency. ATMs are struggling to cope with the demand as they dispensing only Rs 50 and Rs 100 notes and would need to be

Udupi, Nov 12: A 96-year-old man collapsed and died in a queue at a village in Udupi district as cash-strapped common people in the region continued to throng banks and ATM counters for withdrawal of some money to meet their daily expenses on Saturday. Gopal Shetty (96), a resident of Ajekar village was standing in the before a branch of Corporation bank for exchanging currency. Around 12 noon he

Sasaram, Nov 12: A journalist of a prominent vernacular daily was shot dead in Rohtas district of Bihar this morning apparently over his articles on illegal stone chips units, the police said. The scribe, 35-year-old Dharmendra Singh, was having tea at a road side stall at his Amra tola village where he was shot by some unidentified assailants, sub divisional police officer Alok Ranjan said. The

New Delhi, Nov 12: Dubbing the demonetisation of high currency notes as a "huge scam", Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today alleged BJP had told all its "friends" about the move much before Prime Minister Narendra Modi's announcement and demanded its immediate roll back. He termed the Centre's decision to demonetise Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes as "surgical strike" on common man's "small

Mangaluru, Nov 12: Dakshina Kannada district police has managed to crack the missing case of a girl from Kanyana village in Bantwal taluk within 48 hours. However, the case is not completely solved as the 21-year-old girl, who was found with her boyfriend house at Naimarmoola near Kasargod on Friday, told the police that she would not return to her parents' house. Ganyashree, who belong to Hindu

Mangaluru, Nov 12: Mangalore Electricity Supply Company Ltd. (Mescom) will continue to accept currency in the denomination of Rs. 500 and Rs. 1,000 for payment of electricity bills till Monday, November 14. According to a press release issued by Mescom here, Mescom counters would accept Rs. 500 and Rs. 1,000 notes for payment of bills and clearing dues on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. A good number