Karnataka

Mangauru, Jan 7: The Karnataka Beary Sahitya Academy will confer its Annual Honourary Awards 2015 on three eminent personalities including one non-Indian resident and special awards on two other achievers. In a press meet on Thursday Academy Chairman, BA Mohammed Haneef, announced that Abu Dhbai based philanthropist Mohammed Ali Uchil, Bengaluru-based Kannada journalist BM Haneef and artist

Media organisations and journalists are using Twitter, Facebook and WhatsApp to disseminate news and gain new audience like never before. Indeed “shares” and “likes” have become important parameters with which we judge the reach (and success) of a story today. The Times Group has, in fact, linked journalists’ salaries to their Twitter and WhatsApp activity. But these social networks are also

Bhatkal, Jan 7: A 27-year-old youth, who was allegedly kept under house arrest and tortured for two months by his in-laws at a village near Bhatkal, was finally rescued by the villagers and police. Muhammad Affan Shaikh, who was tortured in the confinement by his wife’s parents and brother, has been now admitted to a hospital in Manipal. It is learnt that Affan’s wife and her parents were giving

Mangaluru, Jan 7: A woman who went missing from an orphanage in Kerala under mysterious circumstance was found deserted in Puttur after she was allegedly gang-raped by unknown miscreants. However, within a day she went missing once again from a hospital in the city. The girl, who hails from Haryana, was found lying helplessly near Haradi railway bridge in Puttur taluk on Wednesday night. The

Lucknow, Jan 7: Prime Minister Narendra Modi led government at the Centre has decided to revoke the National Security Act (NSA) against Bajrang Dal leader Vivek Premi, along with the help of his associates had paraded a Muslim man through a market in Shamli after blackening his face and brutally beating him. The decision by the government paves the way for Premi’s release once he applies for bail

Mangaluru, Jan 7: Five members of a family including two teenagers suffered injuries after the car in which they were travelling rammed into a tree at Thiblapadavu near Konaje on the outskirts of the city on Wednesday night. The police have identified the names of the injured Mohammed Asfahan (25) who was driving the car, Shifana Parveen (17), Shameera (35), Ishana (13) and Mumtaz (45), all

Shivamogga, Jan 7: Former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa expressed happiness after getting relief in the land denotification case and said that his goal is to bring the BJP to power in Karnataka. Yeddyurappa said he was happy that the High Court quashed all 15 FIRs filed against him in connection with denotification of land in and around Bengaluru. The only goal now is to bring the BJP back to

Mangaluru, Jan 7: The city police continued to question underworld operative Bannanje Raja in connection with some cases booked against him here. On December 30, 2015, the city police brought to the city Bannanje Raja, who had been lodged in the Belagavi Central Prison following his arrest in Morocco sometime ago. The II Judicial Magistrate First Class gave custody of Bannanje Raja to the

Mangaluru, Jan 6: Hugging saint Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, known as ‘Amma’ will be in Mangaluru on January 9 and 10, 2016. A Brahmasthana Mahothsava and Amritasangama 2016 are planned in the presence of the Amma at Amrita Vidyalayam Grounds near Sulthan Bathery, Boloor, here. Thousands of devotees from in and around Mangalore and the other centres in Karnataka and outside Karnataka are expected to

Hassan, Jan 6: Freedom fighter, former Minister and well-known Gandhian HG Govinde Gowda breathed his last at his residence near Koppa in Chikkamagaluru district on Wednesday. He was 90. The politician with a difference had been suffering from old-age-related health problems for the last few months. For the last one month, he was bed-ridden and was treated at his home ‘Manipura’. Born on May 25