Karnataka

Bengaluru, Jan 20: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah recently bought a water-proof silk saree as a special gift for his wife Parvathi. As per a report in India Today, the orange-coloured saree costed Rs 1.08 lakhs. The Chief Minister bought the saree during the inauguration of the Karnataka silk industries corporation in Davanagere. Interestingly, the CM poured a litre of water on the saree to

Doha, Jan 20: Expatriates with kidney diseases will face being deported from Qatar, a senior medical official in the Gulf state told local media. Renal illness will be added to a list of other ailments which can put foreign workers on a flight out of the country and denied re-entry. Ibrahim al-Shaar, director of Qatar's medical commission department, told that foreigners found with kidney diseases

New Delhi, Jan 20: A member of a delegation which was refused permission to go to Iraq and Syria for protecting holy shrines there from ISIS activities, today told Delhi High Court that their intention was humanitarian aid and not to participate in a conflict as claimed by the government. The submission was made in an affidavit filed by advocate Mehmood Pracha, who was part of the six-member

Mangaluru, Jan 20: A gang of three suspected cattle thieves was caught by police in the early hours of Tuesday on National Highway 66 at Talapady on the outskirts of the city. The arrested have been identified as Irshad (30) from Chembugudde, Imran (24) from Farangipet and Mutalib (35) from Kanjanady Kalkatta. The police suspect that the accused were trying to execute a cattle theft plan in

Mangaluru, Jan 20: A local youth, said to be a Bajrang Dal activist, wanted in the murder case of Harish Poojary has been arrested by the Dakshina Kannada district police in Gujarat. Raviraj, one of the four accused involved in the killing of Harish Poojary on November 12, 2015 in Bantwal taluk, had left the coastal district after police came to known the fact that the murder was committed by

Bengaluru, Jan 20: Union Law Minister Sadananda Gowda has once again faced embarrassment after his kin was caught assaulting a bouncer in a pub in Bengaluru. Abhishek MR, nephew of Union law minister DV Sadananda Gowda's wife, is alleged to have initiated fisticuffs with bouncers and staff in an upscale sports bar in JP Nagar recently over he and his friend being asked to leave the premises at

Bengaluru: Jan 20: Pressure from parents to enter wedlock drove two sisters who were pursuing engineering to commit suicide by hanging themselves at their residence in Muneshwara Layout here in the early hours of Tuesday. Tejaswini (22) and her younger sister Ranjitha (20) were pursuing engineering courses in a college near Channasandra in the City. Tejaswini was in her final year while Ranjitha

Mangaluru, Jan 20: A city based builder received an extortion call from an underworld operative, who threatened the former of dire consequence if he failed to fulfill the demand. Vivek Raj, Managing Director of city-based Panama Group, has complained to the police after he was threatened by a person claiming to be Vikki Shetty for ransom. In his complaint, Mr. Vivek Raj has said that the person

Mangaluru: Jan 20: Beginning Wednesday traffic police across Karantaka will crack the whip against pillion riders who do not wear helmets. Section 129 of the Motor Vehicle Act-1988 empowers the police to book riders for helmet-less riding. The police will impose a penalty of Rs 100 for the first offence, Rs 300 for the second and will recommend suspension of driving licence for the third offence

Udupi, Jan 19: Demanding a high-level probe into the unnatural death of a Dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula at the University of Hyderabad, the Udupi district unit of Students Islamic Organization of India staged a dharna in front of Clock Tower here. Mr. Vemula allegedly committed suicide on January 17, a fortnight after he was expelled from his hostel, along with four researchers by the