Karnataka

Mangaluru, Nov 4: More than a week after a group of students and their supporters staged a protest in front of Milagres College for alleged communal discrimination, police have arrested 10 persons. However, all of them have been released on bail later. The collage had barred a total of 22 degree students from appearing for their semester examination on grounds of attendance shortage. Among them 21

Mangaluru, Nov 4: An unidentified man was found dead inside a warehouse on Good Shed road in Bunder, Mangaluru on Friday morning. The body was found with injury marks on head and other parts, leading the police to suspect that someone might have murdered him. The warehouse, which was used to store cement and other materials belonging to railways department, is presently empty. The body was noticed

Bengaluru, Nov 11: It was a day of celebration for the Bharatiya Janata Party as the Karnataka High Court quashed criminal proceedings against three of its leaders in three different cases. After discharging former Minister Katta Subramanya Naidu from the multi-crore ITASCA Software–KIADB bribery scam case, the HC put a smile on the faces of two sitting BJP MLAs. The high court on Thursday quashed

Madikeri, Nov 4: Richard Vincent D'Souza, the Deputy Commissioner of Kodagu, has asked the district police to be ruthless towards those who disturb the law and order situation on Tipu Jayanti to be held on November 10. Chairing a preparatory meet at his office hall on Thursday, he said that it was important to install CCTV cameras at homestays, congestive circles and roads. No posters or banners

Bengaluru, Nov 4: Busting a novel method of gold smuggling, sleuths from the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) found gold bars weighing 5.248kg taped to the underside of a seat cushion in the economy section of an international airliner. Acting on a tipoff, a team of the Bengaluru Zonal Unit intercepted a passenger who disembarked from a flight which landed from Abu Dhabi around 3.25am

Belagavi, Nov 4: The Belagavi city police on Thursday arrested a Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti (MES) activist who had brandished a gun during the black day rally organised by the pro-Maharashtra outfit on Kannada Rajyotsava on November 1. After arresting Ratnaprasad Pawar of Chavat Galli, police seized the weapon from him. They have sent the gun to forensic science laboratory for ballistics

Bengaluru, Nov 4: Food and Civil Supplies Minister U T Khader on Thursday said that the Centre had launched the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) scheme as a mere “publicity gimmick”. On the “pretext” of giving LPG connections to BPL?families, the Centre has provided only gas pipes and regulators. Stoves and cylinders were not provided. As this had put beneficiaries in a quandary, the state

Bengaluru: Nov 4: In a major relief to BJP leader and former Minister Katta Subramanya Naidu, the Karnataka High Court on Thursday discharged him from the multi-crore ITASCA Software–KIADB bribery scam case for which he was arrested and was in prison for a few weeks under judicial custody in 2011. Justice Anand Byrareddy delivered the verdict while holding that the material support and further

Mangaluru/Udupi, Nov 3: The arrest of Popular Front of India's Bengaluru district unit president Hashim Sharif has triggered protests across Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts. Nearly 200 PFI activists gathered in front of the office of deputy commissioner in Mangaluru to denounce the alleged politicisation of the coldblooded murder of RSS activist Rudresh and arrest of Mr Sharif. PFI Udupi

Bengaluru, Nov 3: Bengaluru Development Authority today gave an undertaking to the Karnataka High Court that it would not go ahead with construction of a steel flyover here "as of now" after the National Green Tribunal had granted an interim stay on the controversial project. The southern bench of NGT had recently restrained the BDA from proceeding with the project for four weeks and posted the