Karnataka

Kasargod, Oct 7: As many as 16 persons, whose families were displaced owing to allocation of land for the Central University of Kerala's Periye campus in Kasargod district on Thursday threatened to commit suicide by climbing atop a university building demanding job for a member of the displaced families. The authorities brought temporary truce assuring them that the issue would be taken up with

Bengaluru, Oct 7: As many as 22 airports across the country, including civil airports in India's western states and other important ones like those in Delhi, Hyderabad and Bengaluru, have been put on a high alert as part of heightened security arrangements in the wake of surgical strikes by the Indian Army on terror camps in PoK. Airports in Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad and

Udupi, Oct 7: As many as seven fishermen have been rescued by some other fishermen and Indian Coast Guard after their boat caught fire off the Karnataka coast. The fishing boat Akash, registered at Malpe, caught fire some 45 kms from Karwar at on Wednesday night. At about 8.15pm, fishermen on board Akash informed ICGS Rajdoot and other boats in vicinity that they were under danger and required

Bengaluru, Oct 7: Five private complaints were filed before the Lokayukta special court on Thursday against former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa in connection with land denotification. The cases will come up for hearing on October 27. Complainant Sirajin Basha had filed five separate private complaints against Yeddyurappa on January 22 and 24, 2010 before the court. The then governor H R Bhardwaj

Mangaluru, Oct 6: Even as the Mangaluru City Corporation and MRPL are at loggerheads with each other over the repair work of bumpy Suratkal–Kana Road, the residents of the area on Wednesday staged a protest accusing both of them of running away from their responsibilities. Under the banner of Kana Nagarika Horata Samiti, the residents took out a protest march from Suratkal and converged in front

New Delhi, Oct 6: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of playing politics over the "blood of jawans" who sacrificied their lives in Kashmir. Targeting the Prime Minister over the surgical strikes, Rahul said " Jo hamare jawan hain jinhone apna khoon diya hai, Jammu and Kashmir mein khoon diya hai, jinhone Hindustan ke liye surgical strike kiye hain

Nagpur, Oct 6: Amid a raging debate over the surgical strikes carried out by the Army across the LoC, NCP chief Sharad Pawar, a former Defence Minister, today said there were similar strikes during the UPA regime, but the then government didn't boast about the action. "There were four surgical strikes (across the LoC) when we (UPA) were in power. However, we did not publicise it," Pawar said here

Mangaluru, Oct 6: The teenagers in Dakshina Kannada who are going to turn 18-years-old by January 1, 2017, can now apply to become voters as the district administration has started the process of summary revision of the voters' list on the direction from Election Commission of India. The revision process which commenced on October 1 with handing over the published draft voters' list to

Karwar, Oct 6: A 37-year-old woman from coastal Karnataka who was allegedly cheated by a travel agent and sent to Saudi Arabia as a domestic help, returned home safe recently thanks to the WhatsApp helpline launched by the Uttara Kannada district administration. Only after reaching Saudi Arabia, Poornima, a resident of Karwar, realized that she had been cheated by a travel agent who had assured

Jaipur, Oct 6: Union minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj, who is known for her active role on social media, helped a teenage Pakistani girl get admission into Jaipur's Sawai Man Singh Medical College(SMS), here on Wednesday. "I thank Sushma Swaraj jee for making my dream come true," said 18-year-old Mashal Maheshwari, who joined SMS college on September 22. Maheshwari's family had moved to