Karnataka

Sakleshpur, Mar 24: In a shocking incident, a 65-year-old labourer died in an on-location mishap at the Yettinahole project site at Jamnalli in Sakleshpur taluk on Wednesday. The deceased has been identified as Mallesh Rao, who hails from Visakhapatnam. The incident occurred when a huge pipe, that was being shifted in a crane, slipped and fell, leaving him severely injured. Mallesh breathes his

Kalaburagi, Mar 24: All the 26 newborn babies kept in the neonatal critical care unit (NCCU) of the District General Hospital here had a narrow escape when a fire broke out in the ward on Wednesday. Smoke started billowing from the air conditioner when it suddenly exploded and the alert staff swung into action and shifted the babies to safer places. The NCCU has 22 warmers, but the 26 babies

Bengaluru, Mar 24: Hundreds of second-year pre-university students staged a protest outside the office of the Department of Pre-University Education (DPUE) in Malleswaram on Wednesday, seeking cancellation of the re-examination of Chemistry paper. The Chemistry examination was held on March 21. The government issued an order cancelling the examination the same evening after reports of the paper

Kalaburagi, Mar 24: In a major jailbreak in recent years, four inmates escaped from the medium-security Central Prison situated on the Humnabad-Vijayapura national highway in the Sirnoor village limits, about 10 km from here, on Wednesday. The four undertrials, in a meticulously executed midnight operation, climbed the prison outer wall and lowered themselves down from the roof of the

Mangaluru, Mar 23: : Around 68% of degree boy students watch rape and child porn seven hours per week, while 28% of degree girls in namma Kudla watch it on an average of three hours per week, according to Rescue, an NGO that conducted a survey on consequences of violent porn and teen porn. Giving details of the survey on Wednesday, Abishek Clifford, CEO, Rescue, said the survey was carried out in

New Delhi, Mar 23: An Infosys employee from Bengaluru has been missing in Brussels since the deadly terror attacks and the Indian Embassy in the Belgian capital was making efforts to locate him.The missing employee has been identified as Raghavendran Ganesh. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said the Indian Embassy in Brussels was trying to trace Ganesh. "We are doing our best to locate

Mandya, Mar 23: A 26-year-old lecturer allegedly committed suicide as her marriage, which was fixed for Sunday, was called off. Her parents alleged that the daughter took the extreme step as they could not fulfil the dowry demand of the groom, a software engineer. The deceased has been identified as Shruthi, daughter of Venkataramegowda of Basaveshwara Nagar Layout in KR Pet taluk. After writing a

Mangaluru, Mar 23: After Hindutva groups of Dakshina Kannada expressed their objection to a Muslim deputy commissioner's name on the invitation card of the car festival of a temple in Puttur, the Karnataka government has reportedly decided to repeal an act of 1997. The VHP had used the act to oppose the DC's involvement in the temple festival. According to the sources of state government, the act

Mumbai, Mar 23: A 44-year-old woman caught for travelling without a ticket has chosen to go to jail for seven days instead of paying a fine of Rs 260, saying the authorities should first arrest and recover the loan dues from liquor baron Vijay Mallya. Premlata Bhansali, a mother of two who lives in a high-rise in plush Bhuleshwar area in south Mumbai, was caught by a ticket-checker on Sunday at

Bengaluru, Mar 23: Venkatesh Prasanna, the Assistant Commissioner of Police, Central Crime Branch, Bengaluru was on Tuesday briefly detained along with his team by Tamil Nadu police, who allegedly mistook them to be a gang of abductors. The bizarre incident took place after Mr Prasanna and team arrested two youths— Syed Ali Ansar and Nasir Mustak Pasha, natives of Tiruvallur near Chennai — in