Karnataka

Mangaluru, Jul 18: A youth from Bengaluru was washed away in the swollen Kumaradhara at Kukke Subrahmanya in Dakshina Kannada district on Sunday afternoon. The deceased has been identified as D.R. Venkatesh, son of late Rajanna, from Dobbspet, off Nelamangala in Bengaluru. According to the police, the 31-year-old had been to Kukke Subrahmanya with a few of his relatives to have the darshan of idol

Bengaluru, Jul 18: Eleven trekkers from Bengaluru were stranded at Savandurga Hill near Magadi for a few hours due to bad weather. The incident could have been prevented had they not flouted the forest department rules. As per Section 26 1(d) of the Indian Forest Act, any kind of trespassing, including trekking or climbing, is prohibited. Prior permission from the department is needed to undertake

New Delhi, Jul 18: A 23-year-old techie has been arrested for hacking Air India's Frequent Flyer member accounts and using them to book tickets sold to several travel agents, Delhi Police said on Sunday. The accused, Anitesh Giri Goswami, a BCA graduate from Pune, was arrested from Jaipur on Friday. According to police, a complaint was received in the Cyber Crime Cell of the Delhi Police's

Madikeri, Jul 18: The private complaint filed by Nehal, son of DySP M?K?Ganapathi, will come up for hearing in the Additional Civil Judge court, Madikeri, on Monday. The complainant has sought a direction to the Kodagu police to take up a probe against Bengaluru Development Minister K J George, and two IPS officers for “abetting” his father's suicide. Nehal had submitted a six-page complaint to

Kochi, Jul 17: Some tiny islands formed by backwaters of scenic Ashtamudi Lake and Kallada River in Kollam Disrict in southern Kerala, among the major tourist attractions, are sinking due to rising sea level and erosion, according to local authorities. The authorities of Munroe Thuruth Gram Panchayat, under which these islands fall, and political activists have sought assistance from global

Bengaluru, Jul 17: Karnataka BJP today questioned Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi's "silence" over the alleged suicides of "honest" police officers in the state. "I would like to ask Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi, why you are silent on the death of DySPs? why are you not visiting Karnataka?" BJP Karnataka unit president B S Yeddyurappa said. "You go to other states on

Kasaragod, Jul 17: As many as 5,793 people, most of them Hindus, accepted the religion of Islam between 2011 and 2015 in two recognised religious conversion centres of Kerala located in Kozhikode and Malappuram, according to an intelligence report. A government official on condition of anonymity said that more number non Muslims might have converted to Islam during the same period in other

Mandya, Jul 17: Three persons, including a corprator, were killed and two others grievously injured in a collision between two cars near Srirangapatna on the Bengaluru-Mysuru highway today, police said. The three deceased from Bengaluru have been identified as Mahesh babu (40) a corporator representing Lakkasandra ward in Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), Balaji (38) and Muda Sheriff (45)

Udupi, Jul 17: A teenage girl committed suicide after she learnt that she had failed in the SSLC supplementary exams at Kadtala hamlet coming under the Ajekar police station limits in Udupi. According to the police, Harshitha (16) had failed in the SSLC examinations held this year. Hence she had applied and appeared for the SSLC supplementary exams. But when the results of the supplementary were

Bengaluru, July 17: Women and people in rural areas are the worst affected by migraines, says a new community-based study conducted by National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (Nimhans). The main triggers are unhealthy lifestyle, lack of sleep and stress. While women are known to be prone to migraine headaches due to higher levels of estrogen, the findings relating to the rural