Karnataka

Mangaluru, Jul 23: The Kukke Subrahmanya police arrested the priest of Shankhapala Temple in Yenekal in Sullia Taluk on the charge of stealing ornaments offered by the devotees. The jurisdictional court handed over the accused to the police custody on Saturday. An official release gave the name of the accused as Murali Venkatesh, son of H. Subrahmanya Bhat, a native of Sullia Taluk, who was

Udupi, Jul 23: Two persons were killed when the wall of an old building at the outer yard of the Sri Veerabhadra Temple, where renovation works were going on, collapsed at Hiriyadka village, Udupi district, on Saturday. Six people have been injured in the incident. The deceased have been identified as Prasad (25) and Lokesh Shettigar (25). The injured persons have been identified as Prakash (28)

Mangaluru, Jul 23: Minister for Fisheries, Youth Empowerment and Sports Pramod Madhwaraj said he will work towards chalking out an integrated fishing policy for the coastal states and implementing sports policy in Karnataka. Speaking after accepting felicitation organised by the Dakshina Kannada Jilla Samastha Mogaveera Sanghatane and Dakshina Kannada Jilla Mogaveera Yuva Vedike here on Saturday

Chikkamagaluru, Jul 23: Attacks on Dalits in the name of cow has now spread to Karnataka too. At least four members of a Dalit family were brutally attacked over beef issue in Koppa of Chikkamagaluru district recently. According to sources, around 30-40 members of the Bajrang Dal barged into the house of a Dalit and attacked the family members claiming there was beef inside their house. KL Ashok

Mangaluru, Jul 23: AB Ibrahim, the out-going deputy commissioner of Dakshina Kannada miraculously escaped unhurt after the car in which he was travelling met with an accident at Udane near Gundya on the outskirts of the city on Saturday evening. However, Mr Ibrahim's wife, who was also on board the car that was heading to Bengaluru, suffered minor injuries in the mishap. She was admitted to a

Mangaluru, Jul 23: It was sheer hard work and determination that paid off, says Fathima Hamza, who is one of a very few persons from coastal Karnataka to crack the coveted chartered accountancy final exam in their first attempt. But this is not the end of her educational career. “I am happy with the results. My next goal is masters in economics and then doctorate,” says the proud daughter of Hamza

Gwalior, Jul 23: A three-year-old boy who had fallen into a 150-feet deep borewell in a village near here died today allegedly due to suffocation, police said. "The boy is no more. He died due to suffocation," said Gwalior SP Hari Narayanchari Mishra. Earlier in the day, the boy identified as Abhay Pachouri was taken out from the borewell in Sultanpur Kheria village under Dabra tehsiland and

Bengaluru, Jul 23: KPCC working president Dinesh Gundu Rao on Friday hit out at the BJP for the rise in atrocities against dalits and demanded that the NDA government should take immediate steps to provide justice to the victims. After minorities, the BJP is targeting dalits, Gundu Rao said and added that the saffron party has been pursuing the agenda of targeting minorities and dalits in the

Mangaluru, Jul 23: In a rare incident, a class 8 student of Government Model Upper Primary School at Haradi, a remote village in Puttur taluk of Dakshina Kannada has prevented the transfer of four of his teachers by contacting the state home minister over phone! 13-year-old Divith Rai had sent an SMS to Karnataka home minister G Parameshwara earlier this week saying he wanted to talk to him for

Bengaluru, Jul 23: The Karnataka government has transferred Ashit Mohan Prasad, State intelligence chief, to a new post, Commissioner for Traffic and Road Safety. The transfer is suspected to be a fall out of the FIR registered against him, IGP Pronab Mohanty and former Minister K.J. George by the Madikeri rural police for their role in the alleged suicide of M.K. Ganapathi, a Deputy