Karnataka

Bengaluru, Apr 14: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday reiterated that he would reshuffle his council of ministers by this month end, rekindling hopes of party MLAs who are aspiring to be ministers. Speaking to reporters at his official residence Cauvery, he said he has discussed about the reshuffle with AICC general secretary in-charge of Karnataka Digvijaya Singh. The reshuffle will be done

Mysuru, Apr 14: A team of officials and human rights activists on Wednesday rescued a youth locked inside a room of his house from the past 13 years, allegedly by his family, at Hura village in Nanjangud taluk of the district. The youth, now aged 23 years, was restrained at the age of 10 by his mother on the advice of a devara guddappa' (god's worshipper in old Mysuru region), believing that he is

Mangaluru, Apr 13: A protest was staged in front of the Ullal police station here on Wednesday seeking the arrest of those involved in the murder of 43-year-old Rajesh Kotian in Ullal Kodi on Tuesday. Fisherman Rajesh Kotian's body was found on a playground in Ullal Kodi. The police said that Rajesh Kotian was bludgeoned to death. On Wednesday, the family members of Rajesh Kotian, Mogaveeras and

Bengaluru, Apr 13: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has come under fire over his younger son being permitted to set up lab and diagnostic facility at government-run hospitals in alleged violation code of conduct for Ministers. The lab will be run in partnership with Matrix Imaging Solutions India Private Limited, in which Siddaramiah's son Yathindra Siddaramaiah is a director. Unfazed by the

Mangaluru, Apr 13: Mangalore International Airport, the 12th largest airport handling international passengers in the country, has witnessed a growth of around 40 per cent in the handling of international passengers, and 21 per cent in the handling of domestic passengers in one year. JT Radhakrishna, the director of MIA said that it had handled a total of 16,74,343 passengers from April 2015 to

Mumbai, Apr 13: Two years after it told a Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court in Mumbai that it did not have any evidence to link nine Muslim men to the September 2006 Malegaon bombings, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) went back on its stand Tuesday and opposed discharging the men of terror charges. Sessions Judge V V Patil will now pass a final order on April 25. NIA

New Delhi, Apr 13: Farzana Khatoon, wife of NIA officer Tanzil Ahmad who was shot dead in an April 3 attack which also left her grievously injured, succumbed this morning. She was battling for her life at AIIMS trauma centre after suffering bullet wounds, NIA said in a statement, adding that she succumbed to her injuries at 10.45 AM. Farzana was returning from a family function along with her

Srinagar, Apr 13: A woman, who was injured when security forces opened fire in Handwara town of north Kashmir to quell a stone-pelting mob, succumbed at a hospital here today, taking the death toll in the incident to three. Raja Begum (55) of Langate succumbed to injuries at SKIMS Hospital here in the wee hours, a police official said. He said four others injured in the incident were undergoing

Bengaluru, Apr 13: A sub-inspector of police and a constable attached to Shivajinagar traffic police station suffered injuries after they were attacked by a group of armymen as they were fined for violating traffic norm at BRV Junction on Tuesday. Krishnamurthy, the SI and Sudheendra N (in pic), the constable, were rushed to Bowring Hospital for treatment of internal injuries, said the police

Mangaluru, Apr 13: In a tragic incident, an unmarried lover couple belonging to two different religions ended their lives on the railway tracks at Adyarpadavu on the outskirts of the city on Wednesday. The victims have been identified as Claud (35) and Jayanti (30), both residents of Neermarga in the city. The postman belonging to Christianity and sales girl belonging to Hinduism were in love with