Karnataka

Udupi, Sep 10: Former Udupi-Chikkamagaluru MP K. Jayaprakash Hegde has urged the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to consider constructing overpasses or small flyovers at some of the busy intersections of National Highways 66 in Udupi district. Addressing presspersons here, Mr. Hegde that there was lot of traffic at the Basrur Murukai intersection on NH 66 that often caused huge traffic

Bengaluru, Sep 10: A 23-year-old woman has been allegedly raped in front of her one-year-old son by her boss during a field trip to Kodagu. In January this year, Priya (name changed), the victim, had joined as a customer care executive in a private firm which supplies housing materials for buildings under construction. The office is located at Kogilu cross in Yelahanka. Barely two months after she

New Delhi, Sep 10: JD(S) supremo H D Deve Gowda met Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Friday and apprised him of the water crisis in the Cauvery basin of Karnataka. Emerging out of the meeting, Gowda told reporters that he explained to the prime minister the current storage of water in reservoirs in Karnataka and the requirement for drinking water in Bengaluru, Mysuru and Mandya. “The PM is

Chennai, Sep 10: Camel slaughterbanned in Tamil Nadu by the Madras high court order dated August 18 cannot be lifted, said the court on Friday rejecting a new public interest litigation that sought a direction to authorities to create slaughter facilities in the state. The court rejected the PIL a few days before the Muslim festival of Bakrid, during which camels are slaughtered in some places

Mangaluru, Sep 9: Calling upon the people to be united for a better Mangaluru, the leaders from different communities and faiths on Friday resolved to isolate communal forces and anti-social elements that take law into hands in the name of religion and disrupt peace. Religious thinkers from Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Jainism, Sikhism and representatives from over a dozen organizations from

Mangaluru, Sep 9: In fresh trouble for start-cum-politician Ramya, a local court has directed the police to file a criminal case against her for her recent reported remarks that the RSS colluded with the British. The direction by the court at Belthangady near here comes on a private petition filed by advocate Vasanth Marakada, who moved it after the police refused to register his complaint against

Mangaluru, Sep 9: Except for educational institutions which were ordered to be closed by the Deputy Commissioner, life went on as normal in Mangaluru and the rest of Dakshina Kannada district on Friday when some parts of the State observed a bandh against the Supreme Court verdict on Cauvery waters. Public as well as private transport vehicles, including buses, autorickshaws, taxis and goods

New Delhi, Sep 9: The government has banned flyers from carrying Samsung Galaxy Note 7 in check-in bags and using or keeping it switched on inside the flights in India. They will only be allowed to carry these devices in hand bags and keep them switched off during the entire duration of flights, said Directorate General of Civil Aviation chief B S Bhullar. Samsung has recalled this device after

Mangaluru, Sep 9: More than a week after he went missing under mysterious circumstances, a post graduation student of Aloysius Institute of Management and Information Technology (AIMIT), Beeri, Mangaluru, was found dead on Friday. The dead body of Sonu Subhash Chandran, aged around 21 years, was found lying amidst bushes in a decomposed state near Madoor village on the outskirts of the city, said

Mangaluru, Sep 9: Schools and colleges across Dakshina Kannada district in Karnataka are switching Eid-ul-Adha (Bakrid) holiday to September 12 from the previously declared September 13. The Karnataka government has already declared a public holiday on next Tuesday, September 13, on account of Eid-ul-Adha. However, Muslims in the coastal belt of Karnataka will celebrate the festival of sacrifice a