Karnataka

Nagpur, Aug 30: The The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) which has planned to adopt the new uniform at its annual Vijayadashmi programme on October 11 this year, officially launched the sale of brown trousers. It will be the first Vijayadashmi where swayamsevaks will be seen in khaki trousers that were decided upon to replace the half pants earlier this year. For waist size 20-24, sources in the

Bengaluru, Aug 30: In a shocking incident a two-year-old girl has been sexually assaulted by two men at Manjunathnagar in east Bengaluru. Police are on the lookout for the accused. In his complaint to police, the girl's father, who is an auto-rickshaw driver by profession, said that he had gone out of the house when his daughter was assaulted. The incident occurred on Sunday. The girl was found

Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 30: Devaswom Minister Kadakampally Surendran today alleged that organisations including the RSS were using temples for illegal activities. In a Facebook post on his official page, Surendran said that he was getting several complaints each day about organisations including the RSS conducting illegal activities in temples under the Devaswom board. "It is necessary to distance

Bengaluru, Aug 30: ?Former minister and writer B?T?Lalitha Naik has received a letter from an Udupi-based man giving her life threat for her recent remarks against gau rakshaks. “I received the letter from one Sunil Sharma a week ago. He has targeted me for my observations on cow slaughter. He has stated that people like me should be killed,” Ms Naik, who is currently associated with Welfare Party

Bengaluru, Aug 30: An aspiring Sandalwood actor who was producing his own launch vehicle and a makeup man of a Kannada film heroine masterminded and executed the kidnap of the son of a top executive of a Kirloskar company. All the six accused were arrested. Ishan Bapat, 19, a student of Nitte Institute of Technology, was abducted on his way back to his Malleswaram home from the Yelahanka college

Udupi, Aug 30: The students of Dr T M A Pai Polytechnic, a unit of Dr T M A Pai Foundation, Manipal, on Monday staged a protest demanding the dismissal of Vice Principal Srikanth Pai for “sexually harassing” a lecturer. The protest comes two days after a female lecturer of the same college submitted a complaint to the college principal accusing Srikanth of indecent behavior and sexual harassment

Mangaluru, Aug 30: A 38-year-old passenger was offered sedatives hidden in cream biscuits and was then looted by a group of co-passengers while travelling in Matsyagandha Express towards Mangaluru in the intervening night of Sunday and Monday. The victim, identified as Clifford Vegas, resident of Vittla, was admitted to a hospital in Mangaluru after he was found in a critical condition on board

Mangaluru, Aug 29: A 22-year-old youth who had seriously injured after falling from a human pyramid during a Mosaru kudike festival competition in Belthangady yesterday, succumbed to death at a hospital on Monday. The victim has been identified as Shishir (22), son of PM Prabhakar, a resident of Daikinakatte near Pilatabettu in Bantwal taluk. He was working in Bengaluru for past few months after

Mangaluru, Aug 29: The police detained over a dozen activists of Popular Front of India who were attempting to picket the office of Mangaluru City Police Commissioner on Monday in protest against the arrest of an “innocent Muslim youth” in connection with the murder of a rowdy-sheeter. The police also lathi-charged the PFI agitators after the latter refused to vacate the place and engaged in a

Kasargod, Aug 29: A Kerala minister is in the eye of a storm over his remarks that lighting of lamps and singing of religious hymns at government programmes and functions at schools should be avoided. "Our Constitution has no religion or caste.So there is no need to light 'nilavilakku' (traditional lamps) during the inauguration of the government programmes or at functions of schools," said Public