Karnataka

Mangaluru, Mar 2: A sub-inspector attached to the Uppinangady police station has been accused of delaying to register a complaint related to the sexual harassment of a 12-year-old Dalit girl. The issue came to light at the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe grievance redressal meeting at the office of the Superintendent of Police in the city on Tuesday. Dalit rights activist Rajaram Belthangady

Bengaluru, Mar 2: A 21-year-old woman is suspected to have jumped from the fifth floor of a building in DRDO Quarters in A Narayanapura, east Bengaluru, on Monday evening, shortly after a heated argument with her boyfriend who was not keen on an early marriage. Neha, who was studying engineering, was in a relationship with Vighnesh, a BCom student, for the past one year. The couple had decided to

Bengaluru, Mar 2: Emphasising that India was a pluralistic country, president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India (CBCI) and Archbishop of Trivananthapuram, Baselios Cleemis Cardinal Thottunkal, on Tuesday asserted that the majority of Hindus in the country were secular. “Politics is certainly good, but not vote-bank politics. If the entire Hindu community in India had decided to be

Bhatkal, Mar 2: BJP leader and Uttara Kannada MP Anant Kumar Hegde's recent provocative statement and hate comments against Islam have created a tense situation in Bhatkal town which falls under his Lok Sabha constituency. On Tuesday miscreants owning allegiance to Sangh Parivar allegedly tried to disrupt peace when several Muslim organisations condemned MP's unconstitutional statement, and

Kasaragod, Mar 2: Thrissur First Class Additional District and Sessions Court on Tuesday sentenced Sanil K. James, a pastor, to 40 years of rigorous imprisonment under the POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offence Act) Act for molesting a minor girl. The judge K.P. Sudheer also slapped a fine of Rs.20,000 on the pastor with Salvation Army Church, Peechi. According to the prosecution, the

Bengaluru, Mar 2: After increasing the price of regular milk from Rs 29 to Rs 33 per litre in January, the Karnataka Co-operative Milk Federation (KMF) has quietly reduced 20 ml of milk in its half-litre pack. This has led to a substantial increase of Rs 15 lakh in the daily revenue of the Federation, which sees a sale of about 34.7 lakh litres of milk per day in the State. When the price was Rs

Udupi, Mar 1: The district police arrested four more persons in connection with the case related to the siphoning off gold ornaments, donated by the devotees to the Sri Mookambika Temple, here on Tuesday. It had arrested bill collector B. Shivaram who used to work on counter number one of the temple near Kollur on February 24. With this the total number of arrests in the case has gone up to five

Mangaluru, Mar 1: Kotekar Sheik Abdul Kareem, assistant chief accounts officer at commissionerate of customs here, has received the Presidential Award for his distinguished service in the customs department. Every year, the officers of the customs and central excise department are also considered for grant of Presidential Award of Appreciation Certificate for 'exceptionally meritorious service

Bengaluru, Mar 1: After Re one per kg rice, the government on Monday came up with one kg of iodised salt at Rs two and palm oil at Rs 25 per litre to below poverty line (BPL) and Anthodaya (poorest of the poor) families. Barring this announcement, governor Vajubhai Vala's address to the joint session of both Houses of the legislature was nothing but a recap of schemes and achievements of the

Bengaluru, March 1: Karnataka Legislative Assembly was today rocked by the controversy over a luxury watch gifted to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, as the BJP pressed for an adjournment motion on the issue, triggering a war of words between the ruling and opposition sides. As the issue was raised soon after obituary reference, Speaker Kagodu Thimmappa allowed Leader of Opposition and BJP leader