Karnataka

Udupi, Sep 8: People of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts of coastal Karnataka should treat Kannada as their mother and Tulu as their father, said Vishwesha Tirtha Swami of Paryaya Pejawar Mutt. He was speaking after welcoming a chariot (ratha) spreading awareness on the Vishwa Tuluvere Aayano' (World Tulu Conference) to be held at Badiadka near Kasaragod from December 9 to 13. He later flagged

Mangaluru, Sep 8: Viani Antonio D'Cunha, a young chess prodigy from Mangaluru, has achieved the International Master (IM) title in the Abu Dhabi Chess Festival - International Masters Tournament held from August 21 to 29. The Ekalavya Awardee of 2011(Chess), Viani achieved his IM title by attaining the required rating of 2400 in the last round against IM Fawzy Adham of Egypt. Thus, he is the first

Bengaluru, Sep 8: Former Congress MP A H Vishwanath on Wednesday said Chief Minister Siddaramaiah should either stop releasing Cauvery river water to Tamil Nadu or step down from his post. In a letter to Siddaramaiah, the former Mysuru-Kodagu MP has blamed the state government for the crisis. The government has failed to argue its case effectively in the Supreme Court. The chief minister should

Bengaluru, Sep 8: JD(S) leader H D Deve Gowda has decided to meet Prime Minister Modi on Friday in Delhi and urge him to intervene in the water sharing issue. Gowda is scheduled to meet Modi at 7 pm on Friday. Prior to meeting Modi, Gowda is scheduled to meet Karnataka's senior counsel Fali S Nariman and other advocates representing the state in the Supreme Court on the Cauvery issue.

Shivamogga, Sep 8: As many as 13 persons are suspected to have drowned when a coracle overturned in the Tungabhadra river near Hadonahalli during the immersion of the Ganesh idol on Wednesday. The bodies of seven victims — Manjappa (35), Veerabhadra (28), Shivakumar (22), Veeresh (20), Jeevan (21), Ganesh (21), and Ramesh (23) were recovered by divers from Harihar town and the Fire and Emergency

Mysuru, Sep 8: The Loka¬yu¬k¬ta Special Court on Wednesday agreed to consider Sunil Bose, son of PWD Minister Dr H C Mahadevappa, as an accused in a bribery case related to illegal sand extraction and transportation. He has been summoned to appear before the court in person on Sept 27. It was alleged that Bose and his friend Raju had forced a geologist of the Mines and Geology department to

Udupi, Sep 7: Pramod Madhwaraj, Minister of State for Fisheries, Youth Empowerment and Sports, said on Wednesday that a new city bus stand for the low-floor government city buses would be constructed at the Old DDPI Office at a cost of Rs. 3 crore. He was speaking after flagging off the first phase of low-floor government city buses provided under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal

Mangaluru, Sep 7: A student of Aloysius Institute of Management and Information Technology (AIMIT) located at Beeri on the outskirts of the city, has gone missing under mysterious circumstances. According to the complaint lodged at Ullal police station, Sonu Subhash Chandran (22) is missing since September 1. Sonu, a native of Kerala, stayed in the hostel at Beeri. On September 4 he went out on

Ahmedabad, Sep 7: The Gujarat CID today filed its chargesheet against 34 persons and three minors, including four police personnel, in the Dalit flogging incident at Una town of Gir-Somnath district in the state. The chargesheet was filed this afternoon before Additional Chief Judicial magistrate of Una taluka court A U Jujaru. Just before filing the chargesheet, the CID officials arrested four

Melbourne, Sep 7: A six-year-old Indian Muslim girl has won praise for her brave attempt at stopping an axe-wielding robber, who attacked an employee at her father's store in New Zealand in a burglary. Sarah Patel was captured on CCTV trying to defend the staff member when a group of six armed men broke into the family's electrical shop in Auckland on Monday. The footage shows the masked men