Karnataka

Mangaluru, Oct 5: In an unusual incident, an 11-year-old boy put up a brave fight with a python which had attacked him and managed defeat the giant reptile within a minute at a village in Dakshina Kannada district. Vaishakh, a class V student of Adarsha English Medium School, Sajipa in Bantwal taulk, is currently undergoing treatment at a hospital for snakebite injuries on his hands and legs. The

Bengaluru, Oct 5: An Indian Air Force (IAF) officer and a Bengaluru-based scientist have been arrested after multi-state raids that have exposed an international ring dealing in drugs like Ecstasy. Around 220 kg of ready-to-use amphetamine worth Rs. 230 crore have been seized. The Air Force Wing Commander was caught in Nanded in Maharashtra yesterday, apparently on his way to Goa from Hyderabad

Yadagiri, Oct 5: In a shocking incident, a one-and-a-half year old girl was sacrificed by miscreants for the purpose of black magic at Boodinal village of Shahapur taluk in Yadagiri district. The victim, Amrita, is the second daughter of Basayya Swami and Lakshmi. The girl, who was sleeping with her mother on Monday night, is said to have gone missing all of a sudden when Lakshmi woke up at around

Bidar, Oct 5: An Indian expatriate working in Dubai has allegedly received several threat calls from suspected Pakistani miscreants after his politician father based in Karnataka's Bidar posted a video against Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed on social media. Ali Khan aka Don, who contested the 2013 Assembly elections from Bidar South, had made a video denouncing Saeed for his remarks on

Mangaluru: Oct 5: Holding giant vehicles operating to and from Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd responsible for the pathetic condition of the Suratkal-Kana-MRPL Road, Mangaluru Mayor Harinath has exhorted the subsidiary of ONGC to take up the repair works. Speaking to media persons here, Mr Harinath said that he set a deadline of 20 days for MRPL. “The 4.5-km stretch from Suratkal to Kana

Noida, Oct 5: One of the 15 accused jailed for Dadri beef lynching case, wherein Mohammad Akhlaq was bludgeoned to death in September last year, died of fever at a hospital in Delhi. Jail officials said it was likely that Ravin, a 22-year-old Bisada resident, was suffering from dengue or chikungunya. But the youth's mother and Hindutva groups in his village blamed police for his death, accusing

Bengaluru, Oct 5: JD(S) leader H D Deve Gowda on Tuesday welcomed the Supreme Court's decision to keep in abeyance the establishment of the Cauvery Management Board (CMB) and said the state has no option but to comply with the order on releasing water to Tamil Nadu. “Karnataka has to obey the order to release 2,000 cusecs per day from October 7 to 18 to Tamil Nadu. But I don't know what the state

New Delhi, Oct 5: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has decided to do away with the option for re-evaluation of answer sheets for the Class XII board examinations from 2017. The decision was taken in view of the growing number of applications and limited human resource. “We have decided to end the facility from next year,” said CBSE chairman Rajesh Kumar Chaturvedi. In 2014, the

Mangaluru, Oct 5: In a rare move, the Mangaluru city police have invoked a drug peddler under the Karnataka Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Bootleggers, Drug Offenders, Gamblers, Goondas, Immoral Traffic Offenders, Slum Grabbers and Video or Audio Pirates Act, 1985. City Police Commissioner M. Chandra Sekhar told presspersons here on Tuesday that he passed the order against T.P. Abdul Rahim

Mangaluru, Sep 4: Armed robbers struck at the house of temple priest of Kateel Sri Durga Parameshwari Temple and decamped with valuables worth Rs 14 lakh and Rs 30,000 cash on Monday midnight. According to police, seven dacoits came to Vasudev Asranna's house asking for a medicine to cure skin disease. Asranna family is known for providing ayurveda medicine for skin diseases. The family members