Karnataka

Mangaluru, Jan 26: A 31-year-old resident of Puttur taluk, who had cheated his girl friend after promising marriage, has been convicted of rape by a local court. The 6th Additional District and Sessions Court on Monday found Shashi (31) of Narimogaru village in Puttur guilty of sexually assaulting a 22-year-old woman after promising to marry her. According to the charge sheet filed by Kadaba

Bengaluru, Jan 26: Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Vala advised youth to actively participate in the electoral process by exercising their franchise in the elections. Addressing the newly enrolled voters at the National Voters’ Day celebrations in the City on the theme of inclusive and qualitative participation, Vala stressed on the importance of electoral participation in the democratic system

Bengaluru, Jan 26: Three senior police officials from the State have been awarded the President's medal for distinguished service. The police officers who have been awarded medal for distinguished service are: Sunil Agarwal, ADGP (DCRE), Panduranga H Rane, Hubballi-Dharwad City Police Commissioner and K H Jagadish, SP Lokayukta (Tumakuru). President's police medal for meritorious service has been

Udupi, Jan 26: A man was killed and four others injured after a bus rammed a van at Movady Cross on NH-66 in Kundapur taluk on Monday. The deceased has been identified as Mamith Poojary. According to the police, Mamith, who was driving the van, was going from Hemmady to Maravanthe with his friends Dinesh Poojary, Ganesh Mogaveera, Keshav, and Mahesh from Hemmady to Maravanthe, when the private bus

Mysuru, Jan 26: Tension prevailed for nearly two hours at the deputy commissioner’s office, here, on Monday, after an unidentified man made a call and gave information that a bomb had been planted at the office. According to the police, a person called the District Control Room helpline number ‘1077’?at 10.30 am. Tipping the personnel off, he said, “When I?was going out of my house to bring milk

Bengaluru, Jan 26: Eleven personalities from across disciplines, including a few controversial figures, have been chosen from Karnataka for the prestigious Padma awards. Of them only three were shortlisted from a list of names the Siddaramaiah government had sent to a high-level screening committee. Eight other personalities including Shri Shri Ravishankar and controversial writer SL Bhyrappa have

Mangaluru, Jan 25: Dinesh Amin Mattu, the media advisor to chief minister Siddaramaiah, has said that he condemned communalism cutting across religious and political groups. Responding to Karnataka BJP spokesperson S Suresh Kumar’s demand for his resignation from the post of CM’s advisor for his remark on recent terror arrests, Mr Mattu said he is ready to quit if the former is ready to leave the

Udupi, Jan 25: Malpe beach in Udupi district, one of the main tourist attractions in southern Karnataka, has become the first beach in India to have wi-fi connectivity. The facility will be available to tourists free of cost for 30 minutes at any time of the day during their visit, an official release said. Udupi MLA Pramod Madhwaraj launched the 24x7 facility at a function at the beach yesterday

Chennai, Jan 25: While many among us witnessed shocking images of flooded roads and submerged cars on their television screens during the floods that struck southern India last year, certain fortune hunters were resourceful enough to look beyond the tragedy to spot a one-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Today, many among them – automobile dealers as well as individual buyers – are making a beeline for a

Mangaluru, Jan 25: The first draft copy of the Beary-Kannada-English dictionary has been handed over to the Karnataka Beary Sahitya Academy. The dictionary compilation process was started around 14 months ago under the patronage of the Academy. In a programme held in the academy office on Monday, the editor of the dictionary BM Ichlangod, and sub-editors Abdul Rahiman Kuthethur and Zohra Abbas