Karnataka

Raipur, Apr 19: Two miscreants armed with sharp-edged weapons barged into a church in Chhattisgarh's Bastar district and allegedly set ablaze a Bible and other articles besides thrashing the pastor and his pregnant wife. While the police called the miscreants “unidentified men”, the local Christian community called them “Bajrang Dal goons backed by Vishva Hindu Parishad”. The incident took place

Bagalkot, Apr 19:A controversy has erupted over two water tankers being emptied to prevent dust from rising from a road ahead of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's programme at Bilagi in the district during his ongoing visit of drought-hit areas. The two tankers containing about 5000 litres of water were emptied before Siddaramaiah was to garland the statue of saint Kanakadasa (1509–1609 AD) as the

Bengaluru, Apr 19: Several buses were set on fire and a police station was attacked as protest by garment factory workers against the new provident fund rules turned violent on the second day of their stir here today. Protesters pelted stones at Hebbagodi Police Station and torched seized vehicles parked there, as the spontaneous agitation with no trade union leading it spun out of control. Police

Ahmedabad, Apr 19: A bench belonging to the Gujarat High Court ruled that in cases involving charges of rioting, all the members of a mob should be held guilty for the offences committed by any one of them. The High Court announced its decision while hearing a 13-year-old murder case, in which a mob was accused of intercepting commuters, committing dacoity and even killing a pillion rider Mukesh

Mangaluru, Apr 19: Over 50 families of a village near kalladka in Bantwal taluk of Dakshina Kannada district were evacuated after a bullet tanker carrying liquefied petroleum gas overturned and the gas spread in the locality in the wee hours of Tuesday. The tragedy that occurred at 1 a.m. blocked National Highway 75 at Surikumeru village for hours causing traffic chaos. It is learnt that the

Mangaluru, Apr 19: The residents of Mangaluru city will not get drinking water every day as the scarcity of water in the Netravathi, the main source of water for drinking and industrial purpose, has forced the Mangaluru City Corporation to supply water once in two days from April 20. The Thumbe dam at Bantwal and AMR dam at Sarapady provide drinking water to Mangaluru city. The water level at

Bengaluru, Apr 19: Sleuths from the Criminal Investigation Department arrested two Ph.D. students, one from Bangalore University and the other Karnataka State Open University, in connection with the II PU paper leak case. The arrested are K. Nagendra (37), a Ph.D. student in biochemistry, and Thimmegowda (37), pursuing Ph.D. in economics. The two were in close contact with alleged kingpin

Bengaluru, Apr 19: In what is good news for 6.4 lakh anxious II Pre-university students and parents, the evaluation process of II Pre-University answer scripts that was stalled for the past two weeks, finally kicked off with 4,300 evaluators turning up for work on Monday across various centres. However, the evaluation process began only in one centre where the crucial coding and decoding work had

Bengaluru, Apr 19: Protests by thousands of garment factory workers against the Centre's new policy on provident fund (PF) withdrawal here on Monday turned violent, forcing the police to resort to lathi-charge and firing tear gas shells to bring the situation under control. At least 22 police personnel, a press photographer and scores of agitators were injured in the violence. The police were

Mangaluru, Apr 19: Amidst complaints against Indian Embassy over alleged delay in taking necessary steps for the repatriation of the bodies of the Indian expats who lost their lives in a fire mishap in Saudi Arabia, the Deputy Commissioner of Dakshina Kannada district has sought Centre's intervenient. At least five among the victims of the fire mishap hailed from Dakshina Kannada district. They