Karnataka

Udupi, Nov 3: The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) filed the preliminary charge sheet in the businessman Bhaskar Shetty murder case, in the chief judicial magistrate court here on Wednesday. The 1,300-page charge sheet in four volumes comprises around 80 statements.Speaking to mediapersons, CID?Superintendent of Police Ida Martin Marbaniang said that Rajeshwari and Navneeth, the wife and

Udupi, Nov 2: A youth lost his life and an five of a family suffered injuries in two separate road mishaps occurred in Kundapur taluk of Udupi district. Rajesh Poojary (26), a photographer, was killed in a collision between a truck and a motorbike at Trasi village, under the Gangolli police station limits. According to the Gangolli police, Poojary was riding his motorbike from Trasi to Kundapur

Bhopal, Nov 2: Batting for fast-track courts to try terror cases, MP Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who has vehemently defended police role in the killing of eight SIMI activists in an alleged encounter, has said the accused stay in jail for years before they are sentenced and "keep eating chicken biryani". "It takes years to sentence them. They keep eating chicken biryani (in jail)... they

Bengaluru, Nov 2: The Karnataka High Court today questioned the state government's logic behind celebrating the birth anniversary of Tipu Sultan, observing he wasn't a freedom fighter but a monarch who fought to safeguard his interests. "What is the logic behind celebrating Tipu Jayanti? Tipu was not a freedom fighter, but a monarch who fought the opponents to safeguard his interests," Chief

Mangaluru, Nov 2: More than three years after a working woman from Kerala's Kasargod district allegedly killed herself in Kuwait, herdrunkard' husband has been arrested at Mangaluru International Airport on charge of abetment of suicide. A team of sleuths from Hosdurg police station of Kasargod district arrested at Satyaprakash alias Prakash Krishna (37) soon after the latter arrested landed at

Islamabad, Nov 2: Gang-raped and paraded naked in public 14 years ago, Mukhtar Mai walked the fashion runway during Pakistan's fashion week. A red-carpet reception in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, attended by the country's fashion elite, served as the forum for Mai's symbolic fashion debut - something she said she's doing as a model of courage and hope for other Pakistani women. "If one

Bhopal, Nov 2: The eight SIMI activists killed in an alleged encounter on Monday sustained gun shots in the head and chest, their lawyer claimed today citing the postmortem reports. "They were fired upon from the front and all of them sustained injuries in their head and chest, above the waist," lawyer Parvez Alam told PTI claiming that he has seen the postmortem reports of the slain SIMI men

Mangaluru, Nov 2: Dakshina Kannada district level conference of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind will be held in Uppinangady town of Puttur taluk on November 13. In a media release issued here, Ameen Ahsan, convenor of the conference, stated that the JIH Kerala state vice-president V T Abdullah Koya Thangal will be the chief guest of the day-long event. Thangal will deliver a lecture on,Islam and Islamic

Bengaluru, Nov 2: A retired private company employee busy watching his favourite TV serial on Monday evening didn't realize his house was burgled. A gang broke into the house, ransacked the cupboards and escaped with cash and gold. N Ramaiah, 65, came to know of the incident only when his son returned home at 9pm. Their single-bedroom house is at Rajagopalnagar, north Bengaluru. Ramaiah was

New Delhi, Nov 2: In its biggest-ever drug seizure, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has seized a huge haul of banned narcotic substance worth over Rs 3,000 crore from a factory in Udaipur and also arrested Bollywood producer Subash Dudhani in this connection. On October 28, DRI officials raided the premises of Udaipur-based Marudhar Drinks and detected a room filled with cartons of