Karnataka

Mangaluru/Bengaluru, Jun 28: Three people were killed and a few others injured in separate incidents in Bengaluru and Dakshina Kannada as trees uprooted by gusty winds and rain, crashed on them yesterday. A 38-year-old man died after a tree fell on a lorry in Odabayi near Sullia on the Mani-Sullia Highway in Dakshina Kannada district. The deceased has been identified as Mohammed Kunhi (38) of

Bengaluru, Jun 28: Bharathi Veerath, known as Bengaluru's first woman cab driver, was found dead at her rented house in Nagashettyhalli, off Ballari Road in the city under mysterious circumstances. Neighbours, who got suspicious after finding her cab parked in front of the house for a long time, knocked on her door and found 39-year-old Bharathi hanging from the ceiling fan of her third-floor

Bengaluru, Jun 28: Police Sub-Inspector turned BJP activist Girish Mattennavar and two of his associates have been finally acquitted by a local court, here in 13 year old case of bomb attack attempt on Karnataka Legislators' Home. Even though Mattennavar had openly claimed to have planted the bombs after his arrest and justified his action by saying that it was an attack against corruption, Judge

Bengaluru, Jun 28: The JD(S) disciplinary action committee issued show cause notices to eight rebel MLAs for anti-party activities. The committee has asked the MLAs to appear before it in one month and furnish their explanation, failing which the party will be forced to initiate disciplinary action under the party constitution and rules, states the three-page notice. The committee was set up by

Bengaluru, Jun 28: Cracking the whip on officials for “laxity” and “negligence”, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Monday said he will not tolerate such conduct. Addressing a review meeting of all regional commissioners and deputy commissioners in Bengaluru, Siddaramaiah asked officials to get their act together, as their “negligence” was costing the government dearly, according to a press note from

Mangaluru, Jun 28: The family members of slain RTI activist Vinayak Baliga have thanked Mangaluru city police chief for keeping his promise of arresting Yuva Brigade leader Naresh Shenoy alias NaMo Naresh, the prime accused in the three month old murder case. 52-year-old Baliga was brutally murdered by three supari killers near his house at Kodialbail in the city in the wee hours on March 21

Mangaluru, Jun 27: Two local youths who were arrested by security forces nearly eight years ago on suspicious terror charges and lodged in a jail in Mambai, were produced before a court in Mangaluru amidst tight security. Ahmed Bava alias Abubaker, from Haleyangadi and Naushad from Subash Nagar, Pandeshwar, arrested in 2008, were brought to the city by Mumbai police on Monday and produced before

Mysuru, Jun 27: Amid royal splendour, scion of Wodeyar royal family Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar today entered into a wedlock with Trishika Kumari Singh in a traditional ceremony at the iconic Amba Vilas Palace here. The wedding was officiated by a battery of priests in the presence of about 1,000 guests at the specially decorated 'Kalyana Mantapa' in the palace. Trishika is the

Mangaluru, Jun 27: Even though Mangaluru taluk recorded less than average rain fall this year, it has already breached the last year's monsoon rainfall figures. However, the meteorological department's prediction of above normal' monsoon has not yet reflected in Mangaluru and other parts of the coastal district. Last year by June 27 Mangaluru taluk received 770 mm of rain, this year it has been

Managluru, Jun 27: Kumara Prasad, a prominent entrepreneur in Venezuela and son of environmentalist and ethnobotanist the late Pallathadka Keshava Bhat from coastal Karnataka, was murdered in the Latin American nation. 41-year-old Prasad was running an ayurveda hospital and medicine plant at Chara Chakra in Cumaná, the capital of Venezuela's Sucre state. Though Prasad's family originally hailed