Karnataka

Washington/New Delhi, Mar 29: Sexual harassment remains a pervasive problem in Delhi despite tougher laws being enacted after the gruesome Nirbhaya rape and murder case in 2012, according to a new study that found 40 per cent of female respondents were sexually harassed in the past year. About 40 per cent of women surveyed in Delhi said they have been sexually harassed in a public place such as a

Udupi, Mar 29: Meenakshi Madhava Bannanje and Sandhya Kumari Tilakraj of Congress party were elected the president and vice-president respectively of the Udupi City Municipal Council (CMC) for the next 30 months here on Tuesday. The post of the president of the CMC was reserved for woman (general category), while the post of vice-president was reserved for a woman belonging to the Scheduled Caste

Bengaluru, Mar 29: A 28-year-old man has been arrested by the Peenya police here for strangling his wife to death, on Monday. The accused, identified as Kallesh, married his niece Priyanka (19) around 18 months ago. The police said the couple lived with the victim's parents. While Kallesh was a tea vendor in Sunkadakatte, Priyanka was studying second year B.A. at a private college in Dasarahalli

Bengaluru, Mar 29: A 23-year-old Indian expatriate worker, who had come from Dubai to attend his sister's wedding, died on the spot after his car overturned on NICE Road in Bengaluru on Monday. The deceased, Shukur, was from Madikeri. His friends Rafeeq (32) and Zakariya (32) escaped with minor injuries, the Electronics City traffic police said. Sources said that Shukur works for a leading mobile

Ajman, Mar 29: A huge fire gutted at least two buildings in the Ajman One residential cluster of 12 towers close to the border with Sharjah on Monday night. Fire mainly damaged tower 1. Brigadier Shaikh Sultan Bin Abdullah Al Nuaimi, Commander-in-Chief of Ajman Police, said five people sustained minor injuries and they were treated at the site. A pregnant woman was rushed to Shaikh Khalifa

Mangaluru, Mar 29: Several people were hospitalised with injuries after a group of miscreants belonging to local Sunni' faction barged into a Salafi conference and created ruckus near Montepadavu Badria Juma Masjid under the limits of Konaje Police Station on the outskirts of the city. The injured have been identified as Hakeem Montepadavu, Abbas Kadaba, Haneef Kadaba, Hasan Mukri, Umar Bail, UT

Mangaluru, Mar 29: Activists of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and All- College Students Union staged a protest in front of the Clock Tower here on Monday demanding action against those responsible for the goof-up of results of the semester examination for undergraduate courses held by Mangalore University in December 2015. Addressing the protesters, Rahul Shetty, student union

Mysuru, Mar 29: Former chief minister and JD(S) party State unit president H D Kumaraswamy, on Monday, condemned the attack on police personnel by the members of sand mafia, near Kupparavalli in Nanjangud taluk on Sunday, and alleged that the State government was backing the culprits. Addressing reporters, during his visit to the city, Kumaraswamy asked, “Why the police have not filed a FIR

Bengaluru, Mar 29: A petty argument over watching the World T20 match between India and Australia on Sunday night snowballed into an ugly fight, leaving a man dead and two others injured. The incident occurred at SK?Garden in JC Nagar, northcentral Bengaluru. Avinash, 23, a resident of SK?Garden, was watching the match along with friends, David and Kenneth, at a large screen put up at 4th Cross in

New Delhi/Bengaluru, Mar 28: Infosys employee Raghavendran Ganeshan, who went missing after the March 22 terror strike in Brussels, was confirmed dead in the deadly terror strikes, the Belgium government said on Monday. “The Belgian authorities hv (have) identified Raghvendran as 1 (one) of d (the) victims f (of the) barbarian terror attacks of March 22,” the Embassy of India in Brussels posted on