Karnataka

Mangaluru, Sep 1: Doctors of city based KMC Hospital have fought against the odd to give an 80-year-old man from Oman a second lease to life. He was suffering from kidney and cardiac disease from many years. He was advised for cardiac surgery in the Middle East, however he was not fit for surgery due to his age and his blood sugar and creatinine level being very high. Since then he had been on

Kochi, Sep 1: The additional sessions court, Ernakulam, on Wednesday acquitted eight persons including PDP leader Abdul Nasar Madani in the case related to the secret meeting of banned outfit Islamic Sevak Sangh (ISS) held at Mynagappally, Kollam, in 1992. Additional sessions court judge K M Balachandran acquitted the eight persons including Madani's father granting benefit of doubt. The judgement

Mangaluru, Sep 1: More than a year after a Hindu youth from Sullia taluk in coastal Karnataka embraced Islam, a group of Hindutva activists on Wednesday staged a protest in his village urging the government and police department to arrest him to find out if he has links with any terror group. 24-year-old Satish Acharya from Mavamjadka in Mandekolu village had accepted Islam on his own will last

Farrukhabad (UP), Sep 1: If records at a fair price shop here are to be believed, Deepika Padukone, Sonakshi Sinha, Jacqueline Fernandez and Rani Mukherjee receive subsidised food grains distributed through ration cards. A distributor at Sahabganj village in Qayamganj tehsil has names of these actors on the list of beneficiaries and ration is being taken on these names for quite a long time. The

Mangaluru, Sep 1: A minor Dalit girl was kidnapped and gang-raped by two miscreants at Bajire village near Venoor in Dakshina Kannada district. Police have arrested both the accused including a distant relative of the victim. The incident occurred when the 16-year-old was walking towards her home on Tuesday at Kaudodi near Ajjibettu village under the limits of Punjalkatte police station. According

Udupi, Sep 1: A youth from Manglauru taluk has been arrested by the police near a check-post under the limits of Kota police station in Udupi district while transporting beef in a van. The arrested has been identified as Imtiyaz (28), a resident of Surathkal. The police have seized the van along with 170 kg of beef, Rs. 1,640 in cash and a mobile telephone from the Imtiyaz. According to the Kota

Mangaluru, Sep 1: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Rajnath Singh have reportedly responded positively to the long pending demand of people of Tulu Nadu to include Tulu language in the Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution. A high-powered delegation headed by D Veerendra Heggade, dharmadhikari, Sri Kshetra Dharmasthala called on the duo on Wednesday. The delegation pointed to the

Panaji, Sep 1: More than 400 volunteers of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) resigned from the organisation late Wednesday in protest against the unceremonious sacking of state RSS chief Subhash Velingkar earlier in the day. The members who announced their resignation included district, sub-district and shakha heads. The mass resignations followed a marathon six-hour meeting held at a school

Mandya, Sep 1: BJP leaders in Mandya on Wednesday lodged a complaint at the SP's office against actor-turned-politician Ramya for questioning the role of Sangh Parivar in freedom struggle. A team of BJP workers led by Madchakanahalli Gram Panchayat president Puttaswamy visited the office of the Mandya SP, C.H. Sudheer Kumar Reddy, and submitted the compliant. According to the complainants, Ramya

Udupi, Aug 31: The judicial custody of 21 accused in the assault and murder Praveen Poojary, a BJP leader from Kejoor village in Udupi district, has been extended for 15 days by a district court. Hebri police produced all the accused in Udupi court and magistrate Rajesh Karnam extended their judicial custody till September 15. After the proceedings all the accused were taken to Hiryadka prison