Karnataka

Bengaluru, Aug 26: Bengaluru (Rural) district MP D.K. Suresh is in the dock for allegedly abusing and humiliating a police sub-inspector during a review meeting at his residence on Thursday. While the PSI T.R. Srinivas attached to Attibele police station has written a letter to Superintendent of Police, Bengaluru district, to take necessary action, Mr. Suresh refuted allegations stating that he is

Lucknow, Aug 26: The Allahabad High Court on Friday stayed the arrest of six members of the family of Mohammad Akhlaq, who was lynched in his native village Bisahda in Gautam Budh Nagar district in September last year over beef consumption rumours. A bench of Justices Prabhat Chandra Tripathi and Ramesh Sinha, however, did not stay the arrest of Jaan Mohammad, a brother of Akhlaq. Those whose

Jaipur, Aug 26: Even as communalism takes its toll on the country, Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs celebrated the birthday of Sri Krishna at the dargah of Sharif Hazrat Hajib Shakarbar in a little village in Jhunjhunu district on Janmashtami, cementing the syncretic and peaceful culture that existed between communities stretching back to centuries. The dargah at Narhad village near Chirwa town of

Udupi, Aug 26: NRI billionaire B R Shetty, who is considered as a giant in the United Arab Emirates' health care sector, is all set to build a super specialty hospital in Udupi district in memory of his mother late Koosamma Shetty. BRS Ventures Pvt Ltd owned by Mr BR Shetty will now develop a 70-bed hospital adjacent to the community health center at Moodanidambur village of Udupi and expand it to

Managluru, Aug 26: A 35-year-old autorickshaw driver was rewarded by the Mangaluru City Police on Saturday for returning a bag of gold jewellery that a woman had accidentally left behind in his vehicle. Deepti, wife of Prashant, a software engineer in Bengaluru came to Mangaluru this morning. After alighting at KSRTC bus stand, she hired an auto-rickshaw and travelled to Kulai neighbourhood to

New Delhi, Aug 26: In a significant judgement, the Bombay High Court today lifted the ban imposed on women from entering the sanctum sanctorum of Haji Ali dargah here, saying it contravenes the fundamental rights of a person. The court has, however, stayed its order for six weeks following a plea by Haji Ali Dargah Trust, which wants to challenge it in the Supreme Court. "The ban imposed on women

Riyadh, Aug 26: An Indian worker in Al-Faisaliah district stabbed his colleague to death and set fire to the body in an attempt to conceal his crime. The Riyadh police said that the crime was discovered when fire-fighting units of the Civil Defense responded to a fire in a carpet warehouse in the district. After extinguishing the fire, they found a burned body; at that point, forensic examiners

Bengaluru, Aug 26: BJP?leaders B?S?Yeddyurappa and K?S?Eshwarappa seem to be headed for another confrontation over the latter's move to associate himself with the Sangolli Rayanna Brigade. BJP?president B?S?Yeddyurappa issued a press statement on Thursday appealing to his party colleagues to confine their organisational activities to the party. He also requested that no “forum” or “fans'

Kasargod, Aug 26: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) probing the missing of 21 Keralite youths, who are suspected to have joined the Islamic State (IS), on Tuesday submitted two first information reports at an NIA special court in Kochi. The two FIRs cover all the seven cases registered at Chandera police station in Kasaragod and two cases registered at Palakkad Town South station in this

Bengaluru, Aug 26: A drunk woman drove a car over the footpath, killing a 50-year-old man and injuring a youth besides damaging the compound wall of a house and a motorcycle. The accident occurred at Moodalappa Street in Doddamavalli, central Bengaluru, on Wednesday night. Bhavatarini, an MBA student at the University of Westminster, London, partied with friends on MG Road before taking the wheel