Karnataka

Mangaluru, Sep 11: Two weeks after multiple complaints were lodged against derogatory Facebook posts on Sri Durga Parameshwari of Kateel and other Hindu gods, the Mangaluru city police have detained a person from Chikkamagaluru. However, the police have failed to trace the main accused, who had used a fake Facebook profile, 'Jabbar BC Road', to post derogatory comments. The police believe that he

Mangaluru, Sep 11: In a quick turn of events on Saturday, a pharmacy college student, who was arrested on charge of ragging, was released on bail after some of the complainants made it clear that nobody ragged them and that the principal and a few lecturers had forced them to complain against the seniors. The development comes within hours after a group of activists of Campus Front of India, who

Bengaluru, Sep 11: The Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee is gearing up to build a case against former MPs Janardhana Poojary and A?H?Vishwanath for issuing media statements against the party's government led by Siddaramaiah. On a suggestion by Digvijaya Singh, who is the party general secretary in charge of Karnataka, the state Congress unit decided to bring the repeated barbs against

Hyderabad, Sep 11: A 22-year-old techie, who underwent a surgery to gain height in April, is now bedridden. While the latest X-rays revealed that an inch-long gap between the bones in both his legs was not filling as fast as the surgeons had promised, he is now losing sensation in his feet. Hoping to grow taller overnight, S Nikhil Reddy, son of Secunderabad-based realtor Govardhan Reddy

Mangaluru, Sep 11: The city police today said they were finding it difficult to continue with the probe in a case registered in connection with circulation of 'defamatory' post against Hindu Gods on social media, owing to "non-cooperation" of Facebook authorities. "The investigation could be completed only if the police get specific information as to on whose Facebook account the case posts

It has been over two months since the ghastly terror attack in Dhaka, and over one month since I've been asking myself what exactly have I done to become the enemy number one of the media as well as the State and Central Government. For someone who has spent 25 years in promoting peace, spreading greater awareness of Islam and talking about similarities between religions and condemning injustices

Chandigarh, Sep 10: The victims of the Mewat gangrape have revealed that their attackers were cow vigilantes but the Haryana police today said no evidence has so far come to fore suggesting that the four accused arrested in the case were part of any cow protection group. A couple was murdered and two girls from the family gangraped after the accused had barged into their house in the wee hours on

New Delhi, Sep 10: The Rajiv Gandhi Foundation has returned a donation of Rs 50- lakh it had received from Islamic Research Foundation (IRF), an NGO run Islamic preacher Dr Zakir Naik, who has been targeted by a section of political parties and media for past few months. According to officials of Union Home Ministry, which have put Dr Naik's IRF under 'Prior Category list', the NGO had given

Mangaluru, Sep 10: A small group of activists of Campus Front of India (CFI), who visited the Mangaluru Rural Police Station on Saturday morning to submit a memorandum urging the cops to drop “false cases” slapped against a few college student, were greeted with lathis. The development comes almost two weeks after a CFI-led protest forced the Srinivas College of Pharmacy, located at Valacchil on

Makkah, Sep 10: Haj has gone high tech. A religious ritual performed 1,400 years ago by Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and which drew believers arriving on foot and on camels for centuries is today broadcast live through cyberspace. "Technology is now part of Haj," said Kamel Badawi, an engineer from Makkah who invented an "intelligent umbrella" with Palestinian colleague Manal Dandis. Among