Karnataka

Mangaluru, Oct 13: A miscreant gained entry into a jewellery shop in Car Street in the city and decamped with gold ornaments and silver articles worth around Rs. 4 lakh in the early hours of Wednesday. According to Mangaluru North police, a person broke open the lock of Vaishavi Jewellery shop and made away with gold ornaments and silver articles. This theft has been recorded in the closed circuit

Bengaluru, Oct 13: Three engineering graduates in their 20s have been arrested for duping students by promising to get them medical seats in private colleges in Tumakuru and Bengaluru. They had allegedly convinced the students that they were part of the college recruiting team, and had even taken them on campus tours. They then duped them into buying' medical seats for lakhs of rupees. M. N

Belagavi, Oct 13: A tense atmosphere prevailed in the city after hoisting of green flags near Shetty Galli area as part of Muharram celebration led to communal clashes in the region. Nearly a dozen vehicles, including a police jeep were damaged in the incidents of stone pelting and arson. Miscreants damaged three auto-rickshaws, set another on fire, stoned four four-wheelers and a police jeep

Mangaluru, Oct 12: The crude oil storage in the underground rock cavern of Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserves Ltd. (ISPRL) for energy security began here on Wednesday. The pumping of 0.26 million tonne (MMT) crude oil received from Iran for storing at the cavern at Permude village began from the Single Point Mooring Booster Pumping Station of the Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL)

Kasargod, Oct 12: The six men who were picked up from different parts of Kerala on October 2 on suspicion of having links with Islamic State of Syria and Iraq (ISIS), a dreaded terror outfit, have told their interrogators that neither IRF founder Dr Zakir Naik nor Salafi scholar MM Akbar influenced them. “Though the arrested youths used to listen to the speeches of Zakir Naik and MM Akbar, they

Mangaluru, Oct 12: A Class III student of Peace Public School, Kallapu, Ullal, has bagged gold medal at a recently held state level open karate championship. Zeniya Zainab landed gold in the girls under-8 years 20-25 kg category kumite at the championship held in Moodbidri. The event was organised under the auspices of Shorin-Ryu karate association, Moodbidri in association with state karate

Mumbai, Oct 12: Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar today rejected claims that surgical strikes were undertaken during the UPA regime and asserted that a "major" share of credit for the army action last month goes to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Speaking at two different events, he said all the 127 crore people of India, including "doubting Thomases", and the army share and deserve credit for the

Bhawanipatna, Oct 12: In spite of public awareness campaigns and ban imposed by the Odisha government, people belonging to Hindu community have mercilessly butchered over 50,000 animals and birds to “appease” goddess Manikeswari during the annual “Chhattar Yatra” near the Manikeswari temple, here like previous years. The district administration had also made fervent appeals to the people to

Bengaluru, Oct 12: A gutsy girls fought off a gang of three armed robbers and saved her friend in Rajarajeshwari Nagar recently. While nobody was seriously injured, the muggers managed to escape when the girls raised an alarm. The police have registered a case and launched a hunt. Around 7 pm on, the two engineering students were walking out of their hostel when they were attacked. According to

Mumbai, Oct 12: Malik Abdullah's plastic recycling business in Dharavi, the sprawling slum in Mumbai that is among the largest in Asia, has survived fire, building collapses, and the criminal underworld for decades. Now, it is threatened by development. For 35 years, Abdullah has carried on the business built by his father, pulverising used plastic cans and bottles into pellets, then selling them