Karnataka

Mumbai, Jan 9: A college girl who fell into the swirling Arabian Sea while clicking a selfie off a rocky beach here on Saturday was untraced as well as a youth who plunged into the water to save her, police said. The girl, identified as a teenager named Tarannum, slipped while clicking a selfie with her mobile phone on the rocky beach of Bandra Bandstand. On hearing the screams of her two friends

Mangaluru, Jan 9: A mild tension erupted at a ‘peace and harmony’ meet organised by Karnataka Journalists Union in association with Dakshina Kannada district administration at SCDCC auditorium in the city on Saturday. However, the situation did not go out of control thanks to the presence of senior police officers in the ‘Shanti Sauharda Adalat’ which attracted several prominent leaders from

Mangaluru, Jan 9: Continuing his tirade against officials and people’s representatives for hurrying to implement controversial Yettinahole water diversion project, veteran Congress leader B Janardhana Poojary on Saturday alleged massive misappropriations in the project. Addressing media persons in the city the former union minister said that he demanded the Karnataka government to set up a

Mangaluru, Jan 9: A middle aged man allegedly killed his 6-year-old daughter and committed suicide at Shambhavi river near Mulky on the outskirts of the city. It is learnt that Diwakar (42), a resident of Niddodi tied his daughter Dhriti to his back with a piece of cloth and then jumped into river. The incident came to light on Saturday morning when their bodies were found in the river. It is

Bengaluru, Jan 9: A young writer has refused to accept Kannada Sahitya Akademi Award by the state government. State government's failure to arrest the killers of Sahitya Akademi award winner MM Kalburgi has been cited as the reason by writer and filmmaker Dayananda TK. According a report in the Indian Express, Dayananda was to be honoured for his debut work 'Raste Nakshatra'. The awards were given

New Delhi, Jan 9: In a shocking revelation, All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat (AIMMM), an umbrella body of Indian Muslim organisations, has said that BJP MP Yogi Adityanath’s Hindu Yuva Vahini is involved in kidnapping, raping and forcing the teenage Muslims girls to live with Hindu men. “A team of the AIMMM found that reports of kidnappings of Muslim girls, sometimes as young as 12 years, are

Surat, Jan 9: Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Pravin Togadia on Friday claimed that his organisation had re-converted more than five lakh Christians and 2.5 lakh Muslims to Hinduism in the last ten years.

Bengaluru, Jan 9: Transport Minister Ramalinga Reddy said on Friday that wearing helmets will be mandatory for pillion riders across the State from January 12 onwards. Speaking to mediapersons here, Reddy said that the new rule will come into effect from Tuesday. “People of all age groups must wear helmets,” he said. Directions will be issued to the traffic police not to enforce the new rule

New Delhi, Jan 9: Former Lokayukta Y Bhaskar Rao has been asked to join the investigation into the extortion racket reportedly run by his son Y Ashwin and some officials in the anti-corruption watchdog, the Karnataka police told the Supreme Court on Friday. “The Lokayukta, who demitted office in December, has been called for to join the probe,” senior advocate Siddharth Luthra, along with advocate

Mangaluru, Jan 9: The ‘beach run and walk’ by police personnel of created a special environment at Tannirbhavi beach on the outskirts of the city. Every Friday, police personnel assemble at the District Armed Reserve Grounds here and do exercises to maintain their physical fitness. But this week, their schedule was changed. Instead of DAR Grounds, they had their routine exercises at Tannirbhavi