Karnataka

Mangaluru, May 4: Water famine is worsening in Mangaluru and other parts of Dakshina Kannada district with every passing day as. Deputy Commissioner A.B. Ibrahim has appealed to the people to use water judiciously. He said that underground water table was also depleting in the district fast due to the high temperature. On an average, the district had been recording a temperature of 38 degrees

Thiruvanathapuram, May 4: Days after a law student was found murdered in Kerala with signs of rape and torture, another alleged gang-rape has been reported in the state. A 19-year-old nursing student was allegedly gang-raped by her friend and another man inside an auto-rickshaw, near capital Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday. The student has told the police that she was assaulted by her friend Shyju

Mangaluru, May 4: An Israel-bound passenger has been arrested at Mangaluru International Airport, here as he was in procession of two live bullets. The accused has been identified as John Fernandes, who was supposed to board a Mumbai-bound Jet Airways flight on Monday. From Mumbai he was supposed to fly to Israel. Police sources said that when Fernandes was subjected for checking after X-ray

Mangaluru, May 4: Moderate to heavy rains lashed several parts of Karnataka including its coastal region on Tuesday bringing down mercury levels for some time. Moderate rainfall coupled with lightning and thunder lashed parts of Bantwal, Belthangady, Puttur and Sullia taluks in Dakshina Kannada district. Ishwaramangala, Pallathoor, Perlampady, Kolthige, Kavu and other surrounding areas experienced

Bengaluru, May 4: Home Minister and KPCC?President G?Parameshwara on Tuesday said he had not been summoned by the party high command for any leadership change. He added Siddaramaiah would be projected as dalit' chief minister as he had launched several schemes for the welfare of the community. Speaking to reporters in Bengaluru, Parameshwara said he need not comment every time when talk of a dalit

Malappuram, May 4: Renowned Islamic scholar and Samastha Kerala Jamiyyathul Ulama president Anakkara C Koyakutty Musliyar passed away at his residence in Anakkara, here on Tuesday after a brief period of illness. 81-year-old scholar is survived by his wife, five sons and two daughters. He was elected as the 9th president of SKJU after the death of former president Kalambadi Muhammad Musliyar in

Mangaluru, May 3: In a shocking incident, a youth was found dead in the driver's seat of a car parked on a highway at Kuntikana in the city on Tuesday. The deceased has been identified as Kalandar (25), son of Aliabba and a resident of Panjimogaru. It is suspected that Kalandar might have suffered a heart attack while driving his car and breathed his lost after parking it on the roadside. The

Bengaluru, May 3: Chandraprabha Urs, former Minister and daughter of late Chief Minister D. Devaraj Urs, passed away at a private hospital in Mysuru after a brief illness. She was 67. Ms. Urs, who had been admitted to a private hospital in the city about nine days ago, died after a cardiac arrest around 6 pm on Tuesday. Ms. Urs, who was elected to the Assembly twice in the 1980s and served as a

Islamabad May 3: Chief of Pakistan's banned JuD, Hafiz Saeed, has said his organisation will not allow destruction of Hindu temples and other holy places of non- Muslims in the country. It was Muslims' responsibility to safeguard holy places of their Hindus brethren, he said while addressing a meeting in Matli town of Sindh province yesterday. “We will not allow destruction of temples and other

Bengaluru, May 3: The Vijayadashami release of his son's movie, Jaguar, seems to be keeping JD(S) state president HD Kumaraswamy quite busy and swamped. So much so that barring a few public events and shooting off a letter to the government on the drought situation, the former chief minister has found no time to tour or even seek reports from the affected districts. The party has been keeping a