Karnataka

Louisville, Jun 11: Muhammad Ali made his final journey through his hometown Friday past the little pink house where he grew up and the museum that bears his name as thousands of mourners along the route pumped their fists and chanted, "Ali! Ali!" for the former heavyweight champion of the world known simply as The Greatest. A hearse bearing Ali's cherry-red casket, draped in an Islamic tapestry

Bengaluru, Jun 11: The five rebel JD(S) MLAs, who gave a deadly blow to their party leadership by voting against their candidate in Karnataka Legislative Council election on Friday, are now ready to face the consequences. Even before the election JD(S) MLAs B.Z. Zameer Ahmed Khan, N. Cheluvarayaswamy, Iqbal Ansari, Akhanda Srinivasamurthy and C. Balakrishna had openly declared that they would not

Bengaluru, Jun 11: When the Karnataka State police is ushering in technological advancement, its official website was hacked on Friday by unknown persons claiming to be Team Pak Cyber Attackers. The official website www.ksp.gov.in was hacked and a post on the site stated, Hacked by Faisal 1337 #Police Website Pwned! Shame on your security.' A Pakistan flag was also put up on the website. A senior

Udupi, Jun 11: The Udupi-based gaming studio, 99Games Online Pvt. Ltd., which had created mobile games for Shah Rukh Khan's films in the past, on Friday released a new mobile game for Salman Khan's next film Sultan here. Addressing presspersons here, Rohith Bhat, CEO, 99Games, said mobile game Sultan: The Game' had high-quality visual effects, sleek controls, action-centric game play, and stunning

Bengaluru, June 10: After hitting the Kerala coast on June 8, the Southwest monsoon advanced into coastal and south interior Karnataka on Friday. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast heavy rainfall over the next 48 hours in parts of the state and Bengaluru. According to IMD officials, Kodagu and coastal regions received highest rainfall. So far, in north interior Karnataka, the

Mangaluru, Jun 10: At least five persons died on spot and three others sustained severe injuries in a ghastly road mishap involving three vehicles at Valachil on the outskirts of the city on Friday. Eye witnesses said that the over-speed container truck rammed into an auto-rickshaw and a Maruti 800 car. The impact was such that both the car and rickshaw were reduced into bundles of metals. Among

Bengaluru, Jun 10: The Congress and the BJP won all the seats they contested in the Legislative Council polls from the Assembly constituencies held on Friday. The JD(S) won a seat but suffered humiliation as five MLAs cross voted. All four Congress candidates emerged victorious, while the BJP managed to win two seats with the help of independents and smaller parties. Fourteen of the 15

Mumbai, Jun 10: Ten years after his infamous headbutt on Italian defender Marco Materazzi which earned him a red-card, retired France football great Zinedine Zidane today expressed regret over the incident in the 2006 World Cup final. "I am not proud of what happened in 2006. I am not advising anyone (player) to behave in the same manner," said the 43-year-old Zidane to a query at the fag end of a

Bengaluru, Jun 10: A former senior woman police officer, who resigned her post over alleged inteference in her work by a district-in-charge minister, today claimed her life was under threat. The claim by Anupama Shenoy, who was Deputy Superintendent of Police of Kudligi sub-division, Ballari District, came a day after Karnataka government accepted her resignation and she surfaced after remaining

Hyderabad, Jun 10: A Hyderabad University Dalit professor has resigned protesting against the appointment of Prof Vipin Srivastava as the varsity's Pro-Vice-Chancellor-1 and has alleged that there was a "hostile" environment for his community in the campus. In his resignation letter to the university Registrar, Prof Sreepati Ramudu, Head of the Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and