Karnataka

Mangaluru, Jan 6: Social activist Vidya Dinker, who spearheaded many struggles in coastal Karnataka, has been chosen for Lawrence Pinto Human Rights Award 2016. The awards selection committee has unanimously selected 'firebrand human rights activist' Vidya Dinker to receive the award, noted Eric Ozario, secretary of the organization in an official statement on Wednesday. The organization has

New Delhi, Jan 6: Trinamool Congress MP Idris Ali on Wednesday slammed Narendra Modi over the Pathankot attack by accusing the Prime Minister of having links with the terrorists. "I feel that PM Modi has links with terrorists which is why Pathankot attack took place. Why did the Pathankot attack happen right after PM's visit to Pakistan? This is my personal opinion," Idris Ali told media persons

Mangaluru, Jan 6: Three weeks after a 29-year-old woman from Jappinamogaru in Mangaluru was found burnt to death, her mother allegedly end her life at her life. According to police the dead body of Shambhavi (52), a resident of Jappinamogaru was found inside a well near her residence at Jappinamogaru in the city on Wednesday. After Usha’s death her two children were staying with Shabhavi. It is

Mangaluru, Jan 6: A Criminal investigation department team, which is probing into the case of Shyamprasad Shastry who committed suicide in connection with rape charge against Sri Raghaveshwara Swami, has reportedly found evidence against RSS leader Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat. Shyamprasad Shastry(48), a resident of Badekkila of Kedila Village near Mani, and an office bearer of Vivekananda Vidyavardka

Abu Dhabi, Jan 6: An Indian businessman who had been running cafeterias in the UAE for more than three decades was going home after saying good bye to his friends and relatives, but did not reach, as he died of a heart attack at the airport. Shahul Hameed, 58, had been living in the UAE for more than 35 years and just after calling it a day, he was all set to fly home from Abu Dhabi, boarding pass

Udupi, Jan 6: A youth has been arrested by the police on the charges of robbery, criminal intimidation and attempt to murder three of his relatives near Kundapur in Udupi district. According to the district police, Ranjit Shetty (26) went to his relative’s house at Korgi village between 1.30 a.m. and 2 a.m. on Tuesday and demanded money as he was in need of it. When the relatives refused to pay

Udupi, Jan 6: Tourists at Malpe beach in Udupi district will get Wi-Fi facility for one hour every day free of cost from January 15. Deputy Commissioner Dr Vishal R made this announcement at a meeting of the Malpe Development Committee convened here on Tuesday. He said the Tourism Department has approached the BSNL to offer the facility and paid it Rs 1 lakh for three months to provide the service

Bengaluru, Jan 6: To conceal her extra-marital affair, a 24-year-old woman and her lover, a jawan in the Army, hacked her in-laws to death and attempted to murder her husband. But alert neighbours caught the duo and handed them over to the police. The incident took place in AKG Colony in Kadugodi on Monday evening. The deceased couple was identified as Kannan, 70 and his wife Manoramani, 65. The

Mangaluru, Jan 6: The door-to-door collection of garbage within Mangaluru City Corporation limits and its transportation to the landfill site at Pachchanady came to a halt on Tuesday thanks to the stalemate between the civic body and Antony Waste Handling Cell Private Ltd. As a result heaps of garbage piled up on the city roads within a day. The company that has been collecting garbage in the City

Bengaluru, Jan 5: The High Court on Tuesday quashed all the 15 FIRs filed against former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa with the Lokayukta police in connection with denotification of land in and around Bengaluru city. Allowing the petition filed by Yeddyurappa, Justice Rathnakala in the order stated that FIRs cannot be filed based on the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG). However