Karnataka

Udupi, Dec 22: Sleuths of excise department have seized 14.50 litres of Goan liquor in Udupi. The liquor was being transported illegally in a sports utility vehicle at Brahmawar-Heruru Cross along National Highway in Udupi district. Department officials led by deputy superintendent of excise Vinod Kumar nabbed Raghavendra alias Narasimha, 26, resident of Kattingeri, Moodubelle in Udupi district

Mangaluru: Dec 21: The four-day Alva’s Virasat 2015, a festival of music and dance, will begin at Vivekananda Nagara in Puthige, Moodbidri, from December 24. Briefing media persons here on Monday, Alva’s Education Foundation Chairman Dr Mohan Alva said eminent playback singer S P Balasubrahmanyam has been chosen for the Alva’s Virasat Award 2015. The award will be conferred on him on the first day

Manipal, Dec 21: School of Management, Manipal University organized an invited guest lecture on ‘Current US economic climate’ led by a delegation of expert academicians from Carl H Lindner College of Business, University of Cincinnati on 16th Dec 2015. Prof. Nicholas Williams, Head, Department of Economics, and Prof. Michael Neugent, Academic Director of the MS Finance program, Prof. Raj Mehta

Mangaluru: Dec 21: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s Media Advisor Dinesh Amin Mattu said intolerance is not a new development in the country and it has been in existence in the country from the last 5,000 years. Presiding over the valedictory programme of Jana Nudi convention organised by Abhimatha organisation at Shanthi Kirana in Nanthoor, Mangaluru, on Sunday, he said that one should not forget

Mangaluru, Dec 12: A middle aged man was arrested detained by police for misbehaving with a female cop at Beeri check-post near Kotekar on the outskirts of the city on Monday. The police have not yet revealed the identity of the man, who was one of the dozens of people gathered on high-way after a speeding KSRTC bus rammed into a car. It is learnt that the man, who was heavily drunk started

Mangaluru, Dec 21: A youth miraculously survived after the car he was driving was rammed by a speeding bus on National Highway 66 at Beeri check-post near Kotekar on the outskirts of the city on Monday. The collision took place when Abdul Azeem (23), a resident of Uppala, was heading towards Uppala from Mangaluru. A lorry parked on the left side of the highway forced the car driver to take to the

Ayodhya, Dec 21: Almost six months after the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) announced its nationwide drive to collect stones for construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya, two trucks of stones arrived in the temple city on Sunday. "Two trucks of stones have been unloaded at Ram Sewak Puram, a VHP property in Ayodhya, and 'Shila Pujan' (praying of the stones) has been performed by Mahant Nritya Gopal Das

New Delhi, Dec 21: Lucknow-bound Air India flight from New Delhi Indira Gandhi International Airport, with 160 passengers on board, had to be returned on Sunday after take off due to crack in the windshield of the aircraft. The Air India flight AI 411 took off from Indira Gandhi International Airport at around 7:15 AM for Lucknow. When the plane was airborne, the pilot noticed that crack had

Bengaluru, Dec 21: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has alleged that the leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party are spreading lies. Addressing a campaign meeting in Belagavi, Mr. Siddaramaiah said that though BJP national vice-president B.S. Yeddyurappa had been claiming that the Centre had provided Rs.1,540 crore to Karnataka to tackle drought, the amount had not been released yet. The State government

Bengaluru, Dec 21: Kannada writer Baraguru Ramachandrappa, who heads the Textbook Revision Committee formed by the State government, has reassured that any instance of saffronisation in school textbooks would be removed and no influence of any political party allowed to creep into the syllabus. “Be it saffronisation or Congressisation, no influence of any political party will be allowed in the