Karnataka

Mumbai, Jan 13: Demonstrating a reel life 'stunt' in front of his elder sister allegedly cost an 11-year-old boy his life in Marathwada region of Maharashtra. Shaikh Sajed Shaikh Wajed, the fourth standard student of an Urdu school was at his home at Flowers' Quarters in Ambajogai with his siblings on Monday when the incident happened, a police officer told PTI over phone from the tehsil town in

Kalaburgi, Jan 13: Research Fellow and an authority on Buddhist art and architecture Monika Zin has traced the root of a beautiful, early third century Buddhist relief found during excavations in the Amaravathi sites to the Jataka Tales in the Panchatantra and how the Christian Missionaries, who used the translated version of the Panchatantra from Persian, Arabic and other languages, converted a

Udupi, Jan 13: A book titled Pictorial Journey to Udupi-Manipal, which covers the religious and traditional aspects, folklore, heritage, cuisine and lifestyle of people in Udupi district in pictures, will be released here on Thursday. A press release here on Tuesday said that the book has 198 pictures captured by Astro Mohan, senior news photographer of Kannada daily, Udayavani. Each picture is

Mangaluru, Jan 13: Two local youth who were arrested by police nearly eight years ago on suspicious terror charges and lodged in a jail in Mambai, were produced before a court in Mangaluru amidst tight security. Ahmed Bava alias Abubaker, from Haleyangadi and Naushad from Subash Nagar, Pandeshwar, arrested in 2008, were brought to the city by Mumbai police on Wednesday and produced before III

New Delhi, Jan 13: The Supreme Court today asked the government laboratory in Mysore to further clarify whether test reports relating to lead and glutamic acid in Maggi noodles are within permissible parameters under the law. The apex court passed the order after perusing two communications received from the Mysore laboratory which had carried out the test about the monosodium glutamate (MSG)

Mangaluru, Jan 13: Around 170 people with a degree or above are begging on the streets of major cities in Karnataka, according to the latest Census figures. Of this, 44 have degrees in technical field or master degrees! Though this number is miniscule compared to the thousands of beggars counted during the Census in this south Indian state, it showed that highly qualified people were forced out of

New Delhi, Jan 13: Fortune Magazine cover page has shown Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos as a Hindu deity in its January issue, thus hurting the religious sentiments of the NRI community in US. In the illustration, drawn by artist Nigel Buchanan, Bezos has been portrayed as Lord Vishnu, holding lotus in one hand and showing the amazon logo in the other palm. The US based magazine's cover story titled

Shivamogga, Jan 13: Even though traditional sports involving cattle such as ‘Jallikattu’ and ‘Kambala’ are affected by the ban, an event prevalent in Karnataka’s Shivamogga and Haveri districts has been going on unchecked for a long time. Known as ‘Hori Bedarisuva Spardhe’ (meaning “bull scaring event”), it is now a big money-spinner. The sport, held during the harvest season, shows scant regard

Bengaluru, Jan 13: The sleuths of the Cyber Crime police station have arrested seven people, including a Deputy Manager of Axis bank, for allegedly siphoning off cash Rs 1.8 lakh by fraudulent means. Police said that on December 29, S.R. Narasimhan, retired Chairman and MD of National Hydro Electric Power Corporation, filed a complaint stating that the service of his Vodafone mobile number was

Mangaluru, Jan 13: Member of Legislative Council Ivan D’Souza said MP Nalin Kumar Kateel has failed to implement the Union government-sponsored projects, including the railway projects, effectively in the district. Briefing media persons here recently, he said there is no proposal before the Southern Railway to upgrade Mangaluru Central Railway Station into a world-class railway station as