Karnataka

Ghaziabad, Feb 15: Five persons were today arrested in connection with the mysterious abduction of Snapdeal executive Deepti Sarna, with police saying that the prime accused was a Bollywood-inspired "psychopath" who was tracking her for around a year and wanted to win her heart. SSP Dharmendra Singh, who had earlier indicated possible contradictions in the woman's version on the day she was traced

Mangalore, Feb 15: The Car Street (Ratha Beedi) in Mangaluru turned colorful on Monday as thousands of devotees celebrated the Okuli festival (Holi) in their traditional style as part of the annual Car Festival of Venkataramana Temple. The Car Festival or ‘Kodial Teru’ came to an end with colorful Okuli celebrations. The event delighted the devotees with high wattage sound systems and tankers

Bengaluru, Feb 15: The leopard that was captured last week after it had entered a private school here and injured three forest department personnel has escaped from the enclosure in Bannerghatta Biological Park, where it was caged. A senior official said it could have escaped late in the night and the incident came to light only this morning. An operation is on to track and recapture it. "We will

Mangaluru, Feb 15: People have no other option but bringing Congress back to power in Zilla Panchayat and Taluk Panchayats in Dakshina Kannada if they want development, said district Congress chief B Ramanath Rai. Speaking after releasing the manifesto prepared by the Dakshina Kannada District Congress Committee for the Zilla and Taluk panchayat polls, Mr Rai said that development is the main

Bengaluru, Feb 15: A Special Court in the city has refused to discharge Syed Wahab, one of the accused in St Paul and Peter’s Church blast case at Jagjivan Ram Nagar in the City. The court dismissed the application of Wahab stating that there was sufficient evidence to frame charges against him. Wahab, a resident of Wynchipet in Vijayawada, is one among the 29 accused. According to police they had

Mangaluru, Feb 15: The Karnataka government has now given more power to District Police Complaints Authority (DPCA) by appointing the chiefs of city police commissionerates in the state as its member secretaries. Accordingly, M Chandra Sekhar, police commissioner of Mangaluru will be the member secretary for Dakshina Kannada Authority. The regional commissioner, Mysuru will be the chairperson of

Mumbai, Feb 15: Taking an aggressive stand on the turmoil at JNU, Shiv Sena today said all politicians who support the students' agitation should be stripped off their 'elected status' and those raising slogans against India put behind bars. Citing the example of cricketer Virat Kohli's Pakistani fan being declared an "anti-national" by the neighboring country for waving an Indian flag, the Sena

New Delhi, Feb 15: The Social Democratic Party of India, (SDPI) has expressed deep concern over the students’ turmoil in the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in last one week where students belonging to different political dispensation are embroiled in a fierce battle of the worst kind to down each other group in the game of one upmanship. SDPI national vice president Adv. Sharfuddin Ahmad, while

Mangaluru, Feb 15: A 47-year-old woman, riding a pillion on her husband’s scooter, died after the two fell off their vehicle at Nooyi near Gurupura on Sunday afternoon. According to Bajpe police, Hemavathi (47) and her husband Purandra Achar (57) from Bandaribettu in Bantwal were on their way to Gurupura to attend ‘Tithi’ (death ceremony). The police said that Purandra Achar lost control over the

A 27-year-old man was beaten up and thrown off the balcony on the fourth floor of a residential building in Sushant Lok in Gurgaon in the weekend evening after he was caught with his teenaged girlfriend. The man, allegedly attacked by some relatives of the teenager, succumbed to his injuries in a hospital. The victim, Ishwar alias Nishant, ran a garment shop in Jehangirpuri in Delhi. According to