Karnataka

Mangaluru, Mar 24: A 25-year-old lecturer of a city college was run over by a city bus on an under-construction road near Nantoor junction on Wednesday. The police said that Joylin Monis was riding pillion on a scooter driven by her younger sister Jacqueline Monis, a second year B. Com student in a city college. The two were going down from Nantoor Circle towards Shivabagh Circle in violation of

Bengaluru, Mar 23: The Central Crime Branch police has arrested two persons on terror charges from Tamil Nadu in connection with the Malleswaram blast that took place on April 17, 2013. A police team, headed by Assistant Commissioner of Police Venkatesh Prasanna, brought the accused — Syed Ali Ansar and Nasir Mustak Pasha, natives of Tiruvallur near Chennai — to the city. A senior CCB police

Udupi, Mar 23: The body of an unidentified man was found hanging from a 20-ft high tree under suspicious circumstances at Santhekatte in Udupi on Tuesday. After getting information from people in the area about the incident, the police and the personnel of the Fire and Emergency Services rushed to the spot and lowered the body. The body was then taken to the District Government Hospital for post

New Delhi, Mar 23: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh or RSS has expressed its displeasure at BJP leaders describing Prime Minister Narendra Modi as "God's gift to India", sources have said. After a recent meeting of its Pratinidhi Sabha at Rajasthan's Nagaur, the RSS leaders on Tuesday held discussions with the top BJP leaders. The meeting was convened to convey the outcomes of the meet to the BJP

Bengaluru, Mar 23: The re-examination for students of second year PU chemistry paper that was leaked, will be held on March 29 between 9 am and 12:15 pm. The decision by the Department of PU Education (DPUE) on Tuesday came even as nearly 200 students and parents protested outside its office in Malleswaram, opposing re-exam. The state government ordered a Criminal Investigation Department (CID)

Bengaluru, Mar 23: Under fire over forming a separate Anti-Corruption Bureau, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddarmaiah has written to his party top brass Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi defending the move, even as he rejected the Opposition demand for ACB withdrawal in the Assembly on Tuesday. Siddarmaiah has "assured" Congress President Sonia Gandhi that what has been done in Karnataka is in tune with

Udupi, Mar 22: The coastal district of Udupi witnessed the first organ donation from a 30-year-old brain-dead man at the Kasturba Hospital here on Tuesday. The organs harvested from the body were two kidneys and a liver. While one of the kidneys was made available for transplantation for a patient at the Kasturba Hospital here, the clearance for another kidney is awaited and could be for a patient

New Delhi, Mar 22: Abdul Sattar Makandar, a truck driver, working in Saudi Arabia from the past 23 months has been arrested on the charges of 'spreading misinformation' on social media. Recently, a video of an Indian migrant worker crying his eyes out due to bad working conditions in Saudi Arabia went viral on social media. The worker has been jailed, according to activists. Abdul Sattar Makandar

Gujarat, Mar 22: Gujarat is battling malnutrition, with around 10.1% children in the state being grossly underweight and 41.6% of children showing stunted growth. These are the findings of the Rapid Survey on Children, a nation wide sample survey of over one lakh households, conducted by Unicef, the report of which was accepted by the Ministry of Women and Child Development. The report suggests

Kochi, Mar 22: BJP is planning to field cricketer S Sreesanth as its candidate for Kerala Assembly elections to be held on May 16. Sreesanth said he would decide on whether to contest in the election tomorrow. “I will let you know my decision by tomorrow,” Sreesanth said, but declined to give further details. Members of Sreesanth's family said he received a call from a top BJP leader in Delhi