Karnataka

Bengaluru, Aug 12: The 21-year-old wife of a KAS officer allegedly committed suicide by hanging at a PG accommodation in Sanjaynagar police station limits on Wednesday. It is alleged that harassment by her husband is the reason for the suicide. The deceased has been identified as Chaitra, a resident of Nagarabavi. She was the wife of Niranjan Babu, a KAS officer posted in the land acquisition wing

Bengaluru, Aug 12: To own an expensive bike, a man with criminal antecedents murdered a techie by forcing him to consume cyanide at his posh flat near ITPL recently. According to the police, Sohan Haldar, 35, an employee of an IT firm in ITPL, had advertised on the Facebook page Second to None' that he was selling his KTM Duke bike. A KTM?bike costs anywhere between Rs 1 lakh and Rs. 2.20 lakh. On

Bengaluru, Aug 12: The state government gave the go ahead to conduct the socio-economic survey (popularily known as the caste census) following a direction from the Supreme Court, Social?Welfare H?Anjaneya said. Replying to queries from reporters regarding a recent submission made by the Centre before the Karnataka High?Court that the Constitution empowers only the Central government to conduct

Manipal, Aug 12: Two physiotherapists, products of School of Health Sciences, Manipal, are in Rio de Janeiro with the Indian Olympics team. While Kiran C is with the badminton team, appointed by the Badminton Federation of India, Digpal Ranawat Takhatsingh is the personal physio of Abhinav Bindra. “It's a matter of pride and honour to be working with Abhinav, who was the flag-bearer for the Indian

Udupi, 11: More than two weeks after he was posted as the Superintendent of Police of Udupi district, IPS officer K T Balakrishna took charge here on Thursday. He replaces K Annamalai, who was transferred as Chikkamagaluru SP. Speaking to presspersons after taking charge here, Mr. Balakrishna said that he would give importance to pro-people policing in the district. Besides controlling organised

Mangaluru, Aug 12: An employee working with the commercial tax department was found dead at his PWD quarters, at Bondel here, on Thursday. According to police, the deceased Ganesh Prasad, 45, was serving as a first-division assistant and was alcoholic. Hailing from Kasargod, his wife had divorced him a few years ago and he was staying alone in the quarters. Neighbours who got a foul smell

Udupi, Aug 11: The entire First Information Report (FIR) registered in businessman Bhaskar Shetty's murder case was very weak, according to M Shantharam Shetty, an advocate representing the murdered Gulabi Shetty, the mother of Bhaskar Shetty. The wife and son of Bhaskar Shetty Mr. Shantharam Shetty and another advocate, Shashikanth Shetty, will be helping the Public Prosecutor in this case on the

New Delhi, Aug 11: Six new Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) will be set up in places like Jammu and Tirupati as President Pranab Mukherjee gave his nod to a law in this regard. As per the Institutes of Technology (Amendment) Act, 2016, which got Mukherjee's assent on Tuesday, IITs will also be started in Palakkad (Kerala), Goa, Dharward (Karnataka) and Bhilai (Chhattisgarh). The law has also

New Delhi, Aug 11: Cutting across party lines, elders in Rajya Sabha today passed a Bill that provides for 26 weeks maternity leave, even as some members sought norms for paternity leave so that parents can share the responsibility of raising children. The Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Bill, 2016, which was moved for consideration and passage by Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya, was passed by a

Mangaluru, Aug 11: Dakshina Kannada district in-charge minister B Ramanath Rai on Thursday inaugurated a new suspension bridge constructed across the Phalguni river at Muthur near Ganjimutt on the outskirts of the city. Built by the Coastal Development Authority (CDA), the bridge connects two taluks of Dakshina Kannada as its one end lies in Mangaluru taluk and the other end in Badagabollur of