Karnataka

Mangaluru, Oct 6: A Muslim youth was attacked by a group of miscreants belonging to a Hindtuva fringe group after a girl belonging to Hindu community shared seat with him on board a Bengaluru-bound KSRTC bus. The attack took place at KSRTC bus stand in Madikeri on Monday night. The next day a case was registered at the police station in Sullia from where Mohammed Anees and the Hindu girl had

Mangaluru, Oct 6: For past two days the low hanging fog over Mangaluru International Airport led to diversion and delay of early morning flights from Middle East destinations. An Air India Express flight from Dammam which was scheduled to land at Mangaluru Airport at 3.50 a.m. on Wednesday was diverted to Calicut. The flight returned and land in Mangaluru at 9 a.m. The incident followed the

Bengaluru, Oct 6: A Bengaluru court on Wednesday sentenced Bilal Ahmed Kota alias Imran Jalal, a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative, to life imprisonment. He is convicted for hatching a criminal conspiracy to attack Information Technology companies and other installations in Bengaluru. Additional city civil court judge Kotrayya M Hiremath had convicted Bilal on all charges, including criminal

Bengaluru, Oct 06: The cities of Belagavi and Davangere have received Rs 388 crore each, 10 months after being selected for the Smart City initiative, to execute their planned projects. The Centre and state governments have chipped in with Rs 194 crore each (two annual instalments for the five-year Smart City Mission). Belagavi Smart City Limited and Davangere Smart City Limited, two special

Chikkamagaluru, Oct 6: The Criminal Investigation Department, which was tasked with the probe into the kidnap that led to the suicide of DySP?Kallappa?Handibag, is learnt to have given a clean chit to the deceased officer. In its final report submitted to the court, the CID has concluded that Kallappa is innocent. Prime suspect in the case, Praveen Khandya, convener of VHP Shivamogga division, is

Mangaluru, Oct 5: In a gut-wrenching tragedy, a two-and-half-year-old boy drowned when a speedboat capsized at Panambur beach in Mangaluru on Wednesday evening. The victim, Mohammed Sadan, was one of the seven family members on board the ill-fated boat that sank due to some technical snag. Even though the lifeguards helped the six others to reach ashore safe, they failed to rescue the little boy

Mangaluru, Oct 5: The Mangalore Refineries and Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL) has turned down the demand of Mangaluru City Corporation to take up the repair work of the notorious Suratkal-Kana road, saying that many other bigger companies are operating heavy vehicles on the same road. The Mayor of MCC, Harinath earlier held the giant bullet tankers plying to and from MRPL for the pathetic condition

Udupi, Oct 5: A mother and his son were killed in a ghastly road mishap at Lamina cross near Nitte in Karkala taluk on Wednesday. The victims have been identified as Shalet D'Souza and her son Winston D'Souza, from Miyar Karkala. Shalet's husband Walter D'Souza is the proprietor of Glorious Oil Mills. It is learnt that a BharatBenz truck rammed into the car in which the mother and son were

Bengaluru, Oct 6: Three people were killed and at least seven sustained injuries after an apartment under construction collapsed in Bellandur on Wednesday noon. The police identified one of the deceased as Ashok Mahanta (27), a native of Assam, who was employed as a security guard in an adjacent apartment. The identity of two other victims is yet to be established. Eyewitnesses said three workers

Mangaluru, Oct 5: The player auction for the third edition of the Mangalore Premier League T20 cricket tournament organized by the Karnataka Regional Cricket Academy will be held on Friday, October 7, at II Floor of Forum Fiza Mall in the city. Announcing this at a press meet here on Wednesday, representatives of the KRCA said that the IPL procedure will be followed for the player auction. The