Karnataka

Bengaluru: The CID police investigating the cases of suicides by two DySPs have reportedly briefed Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Home Minister Dr G. Parameshwar about the progress in investigation in both the cases. As the opposition parties have planned to attack the government in the ongoing Legislature Session on Monday, in connection with the suicide cases of M.K. Ganapati and Kallappa

Lucknow, Jul 11: Islamic seminary Dar-ul-Uloom Deoband has objected to media citing its fatwas against Dr Zakir Naik and linking them to the allegations against the Islamic preacher that his speeches had incited terrorists involved in Dhaka cafe attack. Spokesman of Dar-ul-Uloom Ashraf Usmani told PTI that a few fatwas were issued by Deoband against Dr Naik on issues related to Muslim sects. But

New Delhi, Jul 11: The Centre has banned imposition of “discriminatory rules” against women students, like dress code, on the pretext of their safety in higher educational institutions. In a new set of regulations for dealing with cases of sexual harassment of women students and employees on campuses, the Centre has also restricted all higher educational institutions from imposing two different

Kushalnagar, Jul 11: DySP M K Ganapathi's wife, sons and relatives staged a protest in front of the Kushalnagar Rural police station on Sunday night after the police refused to file an FIR against Bengaluru Development Minister K?J?George and two senior IPS officers. The protest was staged minutes after Ganapathi's wife and sons–Pavana, Nehal and Sohil–filed a six-page complaint against George

Mangaluru, Jul 11: An auto-rickshaw driver committed suicide by jumping before a moving train yesterday at Thokkottu. The deceased has been identified as Pattori Poojari, 42, a resident of Asaigoli, on the outskirts of the city. He is survived by his wife and a 7-year-old daughter. Sources said that on Sunday evening he parked his auto-rickshaw and went near the over-bridge in Thokkottu. When the

Bengaluru, Jul 11: The Karnataka government is planning to bring in a new law to curb the growing sand mafia in the State. Minister for Mines and Geology Vinay Kulkarni said that it was matter of concern that the sand mafia was growing out of proportion and some of them even had gone to the extent of threatening and assaulting government officials trying to check illegal sand mining and

Bidar, Jul 11: Abdul Jabbar (39), chairman of Cambridge School here, was grievously injured when a young man from the Old City attacked him in his house on Sunday. In the afternoon, Adam Hassim (37), a salesman of an FMCG company, went to Abdul Jabbar's house on the pretext of wishing him for Eid-ul-Fitr. He greeted him and turned to step out of the house only to return and stab Abdul Jabbar in

Udupi, Jul 10: Personnel of the Forest Department rescued a leopardess which had got trapped in a cage they had laid for it at Pernankila village near Moodubelle in Udupi taluk on Sunday. The people of Pernankila and nearby villages were complaining for quite some time about sighting a leopard and that some of their dogs were vanishing, which, they said, had fallen prey to wild cat. Hence, the

Mangaluru, Jul 10: Pledging to build Aam Aadmi Party at the grass-root level, Bakila Hukrappa, the former BJP MLA of Sullia constituency has formally joined the Arvind Kejriwal -led party. The politician-cum-agriculturist was inducted to the APP at a simple ceremony in the city on Saturday in the presence of party's state convener Prithvi Reddy, senior leader Babu Mathews, state co-convener

Beirut, Jul 10: Al-Qaida's media arm has released an audio in which the purported son of the late al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden threatens revenge against the US for assassinating his father. In the video released by As-Sahab yesterday, Hamza bin Laden tells Americans that they are accountable for the decisions of their leaders. He says al-Qaida will continue waging jihad, or holy war, against