Karnataka

Kasaragod, Apr 28: The police took three youths into custody on charge of sexually assaulting a minor girl at a Scheduled Tribe colony in the Ambalathara police station limits near Kanhangad. Ratheeshan, 23, Vinu, 20, and Maneesh, 19, were taken into custody by a police team led by Kanhangad Circle Inspector U. Preman. The incident occurred on Sunday evening when the girl, a class 8 student

Bengaluru, Apr 28: The Congress high command has kept the state party leaders guessing on the changes it might bring in, in the wake of complaints mounting against Chief Minister Siddaramaiah. The Congress loyalists and old-timers hope that the high command will finally act and prevent Siddaramaiah from further damaging the party's image. However, those loyal to the chief minister are confident

Hassan, Apr 28: Water Resource Minister M?B?Patil and MLAs C?N?Balakrishna and M?A?Gopalaswamy, on Wednesday, had a narrow escape as an electricity pole fell just beside their vehicle near here. After visiting Bagur-Navile canal entry point, the people's representatives, all in a car, were bound for other points. When the vehicle went a little ahead, a tipper lorry coming from the opposite

Manipal, Apr 27: A man, who has worked as a security guard at the district stadium for the last 10 years, is now the Udupi zilla panchayat president! BJP members Dinaker Babu and Sheela K Shetty were unanimously elected as the Zilla Panchayat president and vice president respectively on Wednesday. Mysuru Regional Commissioner A M Kunjappa conducted the election process. The nominations were filed

Mangaluru, Apr 27: Officers of the Central Excise and Service Tax Commissionerate, Mangaluru, have arrested a managing director of a private firm for alleged service tax evasion of over Rs. 1.38 crore. The managing director was arrested on Tuesday and produced before N. Sunil Kumar Singh, Principal Senior Civil Judge and Chief Judicial Magistrate, Mangaluru, who remanded him in judicial custody

Mangaluru, Apr 27: The Bharatiya Janata Party won the Kotekar and Vittla Town Panchayat elections in Dakshina Kannada district with clear margins on Wednesday. The elections to the newly carved administrative bodies were held on Sunday. In Kotekar TP, out of 17 seats, Moideen Bava was elected unopposed and the election was held for 16 seats. There were 43 candidates in fray. The BJP had contested

Mangaluru, Apr 27: In spite of the increase in the number of cases of murders, murder bids and communal clashes under its jurisdiction, the Ullal police station remained headless for over four months now. Inspector Savitra Teja was abruptly shunted out of Ullal station four months ago for unknown reasons. Even though the inspector of Panambur police station is currently in-charge of the Ullal

New York, Apr 27: Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra, a star of "Quantico" - an American TV series on fighting terror - has slammed Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump's call to ban Muslim immigrants from the US. Ms Chopra shared her views about the battle against extremism, which has come up repeatedly in the 2016 presidential race, at the TIME 100 gala on Tuesday night in New York

Mangaluru, Apr 27: After three incidents of stabbing occurred in Ullal and surrounding areas wherein five Muslim youths were injured, police managed to arrest a teenager in connection with the first attack. Mangaluru city police commissioner M Chandra Sekhar said that Shivaraj alias Shiva (19), a resident of Kumpala and an electrician by profession, was arrested in connection with the attack on

New Delhi, Apr 27: In a fresh twist to the right-wing terror case saga, a 'secret' letter purportedly written by 2008 Malegaon blast accused Lt Colonel Srikant Purohit on October 15, 2008 has fallen into the hands of NIA Investigator. In this, Purohit ironically red flags the emergence of rightwing radical groups to his superiors in Army's Military intelligence wing, warning that this trend could