Karnataka

Mandya, Sep 30: At least as two persons were killed and six others injured after their sports-utility-vehicle fell down from the flyover near Bellur Cross, on National Highway 48 in Nagamangala taluk of Mandya district on Friday night. The deceased have been identified as Jagannath Shetty and Shailaja. They were heading from Bengaluru to Mangaluru. The accident occurred when the driver, identified

Mangaluru, Sep 30: In a controversial demand, Ivan D'Souza, chief whip of the government in the Legislative Council, has urged the Karnataka state government to officially observe Christmas. Speaking to media persons in Mangaluru the MLC said that it was the demand of Christian community that their festival should be observed by the government as Christa Jayanti' or the birth anniversary of Jesus

Mangaluru, Sep 30: Customs officers at Mangaluru International Airport have detected 18 cases of smuggling of contraband goods in September, 2016. A total of 1133 grams of gold, foreign currency equivalent to Rs 12.74 lakh and 236 cartons of foreign cigarettes having no statutory pictorial warning, totally valued over Rs 52 lakh have been recovered in this month. In one major detection, on

Mangaluru, Sep 30: Louis J Pinto has been re-elected president of Konkani cultural organisation Mandd Sobhann for 2016-17. The new office bearers for 2016-17 in the first executive committee meeting have elected Eric Ozario as Gurkaar. Arun Raj Rodrigues is the coordinator, Stany Alvares, vice-president; Kishore Fernandes, secretary; Joel Pinto - treasurer; Irine Rebello - joint secretary; and

New Delhi, Sep 30: Bollywood superstar Salman Khan says artistes from Pakistan should not be treated like terrorists and art and terrorism should not be mixed. The Indian Motion Picture Producers Association passed a resolution yesterday to ban Pakistani actors from the industry in the wake of the Uri attack. The resolution came after Indian Army announced that seven terror launch pads were

Bengaluru, Sep 30: The Supreme Court on Friday pulled up Karnataka for its defiant stand on releasing Cauvery river water to Tamil Nadu and ordered it to release 6000 cusecs of water between Oct 1 and Oct 6. The apex court stated that Karnataka is flouting orders and creating a situation where the majesty of law is being dented. Wrath of law will fall upon Karnataka in case of any further defiance

Mangaluru, Sep 30: A 22-year-old man has been detained by the Dakshina Kannada district police after he allegedly tried to molest a teenage school girl at Alekadi in Sullia taluk. The accused have been identified as Suresh (22), a resident of Alekadi. He is a labourer. He was caught by the sleuths of jurisdictional Bellare police station on Thursday, two days after he allegedly committed the crime

Bengaluru, Sep 30: Moderate rains continued to lash parts of Karnataka on Friday. The water level in the Cauvery basin reservoirs too has gone up slightly after parts of Mandya, Ramanagaram and Mysuru district received good showers for past two days. Weather forecast by the Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre (KSNMDC) is that these districts may continue to get rains today. This

Shivamogga, Sep 30: Renowned psychiatrist and film producer K A Ashok Pai(68) passed away on Thursday. He had suffered cardiac arrest in Scotland. He is survived by wife and daughter. He was also the chairman of Karnataka Mental Health Taskforce. He started the Manasa Nursing Home and Manasa Educational Foundation in Shimoga. Dr Pai had produced critically acclaimed films on psychoanalysis

Doha, Sep 30: The death of an Indian laborer in Qatar who had complained about not being paid and later committed suicide on a building site has focused attention on migrant workers struggling amid an economic downturn in the Gulf state ahead of the 2022 World Cup. Scaffolder Ajaya Behara, 44, hanged himself in the basement of the Doha Exhibition and Convention Center on Sept. 7, weeks after