Karnataka

Mangaluru: June 12: District In-charge Minister B?Ramanath Rai said the district will be declared as child labour-free district by September. He was speaking after inaugurating World Day Against Child Labour programme organised by the District Legal Services Authority, Labour Department, district administration, Zilla Panchayat and various other government departments at Town Hall in Mangaluru on

Bengaluru, Jun 12: Cracking the whip, JD(S) today suspended its eight rebel MLAs who voted against its official candidate and supported Congress in the biennial elections to fill four Rajya Sabha seats from Karnataka. Caught off guard by the open defiance of rebels, a red-faced JD(S) leadership also issued a notice asking them why they should not be expelled from the party for defying the party

Mangaluru, Jun 12: At least three persons were killed and eight others suffered critical injuries in a ghastly mishap at Kodaje near Mani in Dakshina Kannada district on Sunday. Thejas (22), Varsha (19) and Sandhya(21), who were on board an ill-fated Maruti Omni car died on the spot when their vehicle rammed into a speeding KSRTC bus on Mani-Mysuru state highway. The injured have been identified

Jambusar, Jun 12: Vishva Hindu Parishad supremo Pravin Togadia has blamed growing “impotency” among Hindu men for the slow growth of Hindu population in India. “Go home and worship your manhood,” he exhorted the Hindu men while addressing a gathering at Jambusar in Bharuch district to induct fresh blood into the saffron outfit on Friday. “Hindu couples should have more children to counter the

Mangaluru, Jun 12: Bhushan Gulabrao Borase, superintendent of police of Dakshina Kannada, has warned the communal and anti-social forces against disrupting peace in the district in the holy month of Ramadan. Mr Borse, under whose leadership a peace meeting was organised in Savanoor village of Puttur taluk on Saturday, a day after brutal attack on two Muslim auto-rickshaw drivers by the miscreants

New Delhi, Jun 12: Indians joining al Qaeda were moved by the 1992 Babri mosque demolition and 2002 Godhra riots and were committed to establish base of terror outfit al Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) here, Delhi Police has told a court here. In its charge sheet filed against 17 accused, Special Cell of Delhi Police said for the purpose of jihad, some of them had gone to Pakistan and had met

Mangaluru, Jun 12: Eye witnesses of last Friday's ghastly road mishap at Valachil, on the outskirts of the city, wherein five persons were killed and three others suffered serious injuries, have told police that the reckless lorry driver was using mobile phone while driving. The container lorry was coming towards the city on the Bengaluru-Mangaluru National Highway hit the median and crossed over

Kasaragod, Jun 12: In a rare development, the Kerala state Home Department has registered a criminal case against a Coca-Cola unit invoking provisions of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, for groundwater exploitation and pollution at Plachimada in Palakkad. The case registered at the Meenakshipuram police station on Friday, as directed by Palakkad

Bengaluru, Jun 12: The State Government has purchased a new SUV for Chief Minister Siddaramaiah. From Saturday, Siddaramaiah has started using the brand new white Toyota Fortuner. It is coincide or otherwise, the purchase of the new SUV?has come after a baby crow sat on his official SUV?some days ago. The chief minister's office however clarified that the vehicle was booked a month ago. Official

Nagpur, Jun 12: A local court has awarded five years imprisonment to a man for making a sexually explicit video of a female dental student after giving her a laced drink and posting it on Facebook. The case pertains to 2012 when accused Ajay Shalikram Gajbhiye (40), a resident of Kamptee near here had allegedly uploaded on Facebook the video of a student from a city-based dental college in an