Karnataka

Mangaluru, Apr 8: Life was not the same for Laxmi (Name changed) until Tuesday evening when her husband received a call from Dr. Altaf Khan, Consultant Urologist and Transplant surgeon at Yenepoya hospital. Mr. KV Babu a construction worker hailing from Payyanur in Kerala who had a fall and sustained injury to head was declared brain dead. His family was magnanimous enough to give consent for

Bengaluru, Apr 8: The state Home department's delay in taking action against IPS officer Abhishekh Goyal in accordance with the recommendations of the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy (NPA), Hyderabad, may come as a setback for a host of Karnataka cadre IPS?officers anticipating promotion. The NPA, on December 15, 2015, had recommended action against Goyal for his misconduct, gross

Bareilly, Apr 8: As per the latest directive by the Hajj Committee of India, women who are pregnant at the time of filing application and complete four months of pregnancy in September when Hajj Yatra begins would not be allowed to proceed. Even if they hide this fact and proceed on Hajj, they can be de-boarded from the flight if it is found that they have concealed the above fact, say Hajj

Bengaluru, Apr 8: In a setback to the Congress government in the state, the Karnataka High Court today stayed the operation of the Anti-Corruption Bureau, saying the corruption cases being probed by Lokayukta and pending sanction for prosecution should not be transferred to the newly-formed investigation agency. A division bench, comprising Chief Justice Subhro Kamal Mukherejee and Justice Ravi

Srinagar, Apr 8: As the entire media spotlight is on the row between outstation students and the National Institute of Technology (NIT) administration, 20-year-old Imtiyaz Sheikh is nursing wounds received in a brutal attack on April 1 when he visited the NIT campus to deliver courier mail. Recalling the sequence of events on April 1 when two groups of students clashed over the India-West Indies

Mangaluru, Apr 8: The Malabar Rampage 2016 – the seven-day voyage (April 3 to April 9), covering 1400 km on auto-rickshaws – on Thursday enthralled residents of Mangaluru when it was flagged off from the premises of the Government School at Mallikatte here. Schoolchildren were excited as 38 participants from across the globe interacted with them. The tour started at Thiruvananthapuram on April 4

Udupi, Apr 7: Javagal Srinath, former Indian cricketer, inaugurated the B.C. Alva Sports Complex at Nitte here on Thursday. The sporting arena, having state-of-the-art facilities, is constructed by the Nitte Education Trust on 12 acres at a cost of Rs. 12 crore. The facilities in the sports complex include an indoor stadium measuring 4,000 sq. ft., which has three badminton courts, a basketball

Mangaluru, Apr 7: In a heartrending tragedy a youth was found murdered under the limits of Konaje police station in Mangaluru taluk on Thursday. A nasty smell emanating from a locked room at Nityananda Nagar in Kutthar village led to the discovery of the mutilated body of a handcuffed man with a plastic cover over his neck, sources said. The deceased has been identified as Kushalappa (30), who

Karawang, Apr 7: In a tragic incident, a pop star died onstage as she kept on singing for around 45 minutes despite being bitten by a cobra. Irma Bule, who was bitten mid-performance by a cobra, was known for wearing snakes during her acts but the king cobra which she danced with on Sunday had not been defanged. The tragic 29-year-old was performing in a village in Karawang, West Java, in her

Ballari, Apr 7: Fearing failure in SSLC examination, a class 10 student from Gunda village, 20km from Hosapete, consumed poison on Wednesday at his family farmhouse. 16-year-old Deavaramane Manjunath was rushed to the 100-bed Government Hospital by his parents, but the former died late in the evening. In the hospital, he told his parents he was worried about his performance in the SSLC