Karnataka

Mangaluru, Jul 7: In a shocking incident, four journalists were gheraoed and attacked by a large crowd when they had visited a madrasa at Suralpady village near Bajpe on the outskirts of the city, to seek clarification from its management committee members regarding the case of an alleged social boycott'. The incident took place on Tuesday morning within a few minutes after Bharath Raj, Nagesh

Thiruvananthapuram, Sep 7: A crude bomb was hurled at a BJP office in the heart of the city in Thiruvananthapuram, with the party alleging that CPI(M) workers were behind the attack. No one was injured in the incident, police said. The incident occurred around midnight on Wednesday, shortly after BJP State president Kummanam Rajasekharan had left the office for Kozhikode, where preparations are on

New Delhi, Sep 7: Teenage Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai has urged India, Pakistan and the United Nations to come together and put an end to the "inhumanity and heartbreak" in Kashmir. Pakistan's news daily Dawn quoted Malala saying, "The Kashmiri people, like people everywhere, deserve their fundamental human rights. They should live free of fear and repression." "Dozens of unarmed protesters

Bengaluru, Sep 7: Amid protests, Karnataka has started releasing Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu complying with the Supreme Court directive asking it to release 15,000 cusecs per day to the neighbouring state for ten days. "Karnataka has started releasing Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu to obey the Supreme Court directive asking the state government to release 15,000 cusecs of water per day to Tamil Nadu

Bengaluru, Sep 7: The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) probing the II PU exam question paper leak in April this year, arrested one more accused on Tuesday. The arrested has been identified as Sujay B heemanna Banakar, who stays at Canara Bank Layout in Vidyaranyapura, north Bengaluru. A photographer, Sujay is suspected to have helped prime accused Shivakumaraiah and others in selling the

Mangaluru, Sep 7: An under-trial inmate has allegedly killed himself inside the district prison in Mangaluru. The deceased has been identified as Keshava Gowda (38), a resident of Bellare in Sullia taluk of Dakshina Kannada district. He was an accused in a sexual assault case and the trial of the case was going on. According to sources, he was found hanging by jail authorities on Wednesday morning

New Delhi, Sep 7: A woman advocate, who belongs to Muslim community, has urged the Supreme Court to put an end to Shariah courts in the country, saying they raised a question mark on the judiciary. In an affidavit, advocate Farha Faiz on Tuesday sought directions from the apex court to refer the question of reforms in personal laws, being examined suo motu as “Muslim Women's Quest for Equality”

Kasargod, Sep 7: A local leader of Communist Party of India (CPI), who was brutally stabbed by two alleged Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers, is battling for life at a private hospital in Mangaluru. The injured has been identified as Seetharaman, 45, secretary of the CPI Badiadukka branch committee. Left Democratic Front (LDF) activists took out a march at Badiadukka on Tuesday in protest

Kasargod, Sep 7: A school teacher was killed when the motorbike he was riding collided with a tipper lorry at Seethangoli, near Badiadukka, on Tuesday. The deceased has been identified as Ubaid, 28, a Malayalam teacher working with the Muhimiath school at Puthige, and a resident of Uliyathadukka. The police said that Ubaid died on the spot when the tipper lorry collided head-on with the two

Bengaluru, Sep 7: The Tourism department has made it mandatory for all homestays to register or be ready to face legal action. Tourism Minister Priyank Kharge said that too many homestays are mushrooming in the state and the department has no details of them. Only a few are registered. Many tourists have been fleeced in the name of homestays. The number of complaints from domestic and foreign