Karnataka

Mangaluru, Mar 15: St Aloysius College Management and St Aloysius College Alumni Association (SACAA) will jointly organize The Eminent Aloysian Alumni Award 2016' on 19 March 2016 at 5.30 p.m. at Fr L.F. Rasquinha Hall, LCRI Block of the college here. This award is for those alumni who have excelled in their respective fields and have made a significant contribution to the society. The award

Dharmasthala, Mar 15: Expressing confidence that police would soon arrest those behind the murder of a BJP worker in Mysuru, Home Minister G Parameshwara has urged the saffron groups to stop politicizing murder cases. Speaking to reporters after inaugurating new police station at Dharmasthala, Mr. Parameshwara appealed to people not to disturb law and order and damage public property in a fit of

Mangaluru, Mar 15: Home Minister G Parameshwara formally inaugurated the new police station in the temple town of Dharmasthala, 50 km from here, on Monday. Till now a part of Dakshina Kannada was under the limits of Belthangady police station and another part was under the limits of Uppinangady police station. The proposal for having a police station in Dharmasthala was pending since 1986. It was

Mysuru, Mar 15: The activists of BJP and other saffron groups who began unleashing violence in Mysuru on Monday morning by forcefully imposing a day long bandh, turned more violent after the funeral of BJP worker Raju, who was hacked to death by unidentified miscreants. When a large number of BJP?workers were returning from the burial ground in Kyathamaranahalli, some miscreants pelted stones at

Mysuru, Mar 15: Member of Parliament from Mysuru and Kodagu Prathap Simha, on Monday, said, the State government and district administration should be held responsible for the murder of Raju, near a tea shop on MG Road in Udayagiri by three bike-borne assailants, on Sunday evening. MP Pratap Simha, MLA CT Ravi and others on Monday consoling the family members of Raju, a BJP worker who was hacked

Mangaluru, Mar 15: A 32-year-old lecturer accused of sexually harassing a girl student was found dead at Kalladka in Bantwal taluk on Monday night. Police sources said that Harish Acharya (32) hanged himself to death in his brother's home. It is said that a sexual harassment case was registered against him following an incident at a private college in Vamanjoor last year. He was in depression

Mangaluru, Mar 14: Registering their protest against the felling of trees for the on-going musical fountain project and associated works at the old deer park, in front of Kadri Park a small group of green activists on Monday staged a dharna on the spot. The Rs 5 crore project has been taken up by the Mangaluru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) on a four-acre land belonging to the Department of

Dehradun, Mar 14: In a shocking incident, BJP MLA Ganesh Joshi was on Monday caught on camera beating up a police horse with a lathi' during a protest against state government in Dehradun. The horse was deployed at the venue to control the situation. Joshi lost his cool and attacked the horse with a lathi' and was followed by other protesters present there. The animal suffered serious injury in

Mysuru, Mar 14: Incidents of violence, including stone pelting which resulted in damage to KSRTC buses, forcible closure of shops and establishments and torching of two vehicles were reported from parts of Mysuru as Bharatiya Janata Party workers went on a rampage during a bandh called to protest against the murder of party activist Raju. Even though police launched a manhunt to nab the miscreants

Dubai, Mar 14: "I did it ... Palestine won," shouted Palestinian teacher Hanan Al Hroub after Pope Francis announced her name in a televised statement at the Global Teacher Prize award in Dubai on Sunday. The national flag of Palestine rose high and proud after the winner was announced. The Global Teacher Prize, hosted by the Varkey Foundation, awarded $1 million to Hanan, the second person until