Karnataka

Mumbai, Dec 9: The Bombay High Court today doubted the evidence of Ravindra Patil, former police bodyguard of Bollywood star Salman Khan and witness in the 2002 hit-and-run case, observing that he was "wholly unreliable." Justice A R Joshi said this while dictating the verdict in the appeal filed by the actor against the five-year sentence awarded to him by a Mumbai sessions court on May 6 this

Bantwal, Dec 9: A tense atmosphere prevailed in the sensitive town of Maripalla in Bantwal taluk after a group of miscreants attempted to murder a 38-year-old by brutally stabbing him in the broad daylight. A critically injured Haneef alias Mada Haneef, has been admitted to a hospital in Mangaluru. His condition is said to be extremely critical. The attack took place when Haneef was standing in

Kochi, Dec 9: A catholic priest, wanted in a case of alleged rape of a teenaged girl earlier this year, has finally surrendered before police at Aluva near here. Police said Edwin Figarez, the priest attached to the Lourdes Matha Church, Puthenvelikkara in Ernakulam district, surrendered before Aluva Deputy SP P P Shams. A lookout notice was issued against him after Kerala High Court rejected his

Bengaluru, Dec 9: The Congress has finally decided to field Anil Kumar as its candidate for elections to the Legislative Council from Kolar local body constituency. Anil Kumar is the follower of Veerappa Moily. The party made the announcement late in the evening. The selection had become a Herculean task with Moily demanding ticket for his follower, Anil Kumar, while K?H?Muniyappa was seeking

New Delhi, Dec 9: Karnataka Minorities Welfare Minister Qamarul Islam on Tuesday said that the State government will constitute a task force headed by the Superintendent of Police in each district to clear encroachments on wakf properties. The minister, who was here to attend the meeting convened by Union Minorities Welfare Minister Najma Heptulla to review the centrally sponsored schemes in the

Udupi, 9: The Udupi district Congress Committee has continued its effort to convince former K Jayaprakash Hegde and B Bhujanga Shetty, the two Congress leaders who had filed nominations for the Udupi and Dakshina Kannada Local Authorities constituencies to withdraw their candidature in favour of Pratapchandra Shetty, the official candidate of the Congress party. Addressing presspersons here, Gopal

Dadri, Dec 9: Mohammad Danish, who had suffered serious injuries when a a mob in Bishahra village on September 28, attacked him and killed his father, Akhlaq, pointed towards the son and relatives of local BJP leader Sanjay Rana as the main culprits responsible for spreading false rumours about beef in their home and leading the murderous mob . As a key witness who survived the attack, Danish

Khobar, Dec 9: An Indian expatriate worker hailing from Mangaluru died of heart attack at Saudi Arabia’s eastern city of Khobar. The passport of the deceased shows his name as Koya, but he was known as Iqbal among his friends in Saudi Arabia. However, neither his friends nor Indian embassy officials in Saudi Arabia known about his family background and home address in Mangaluru. According to his

Mangaluru, Dec 8: Mangaluru police have invoked Goonda Act against Safan Hussain, an accused in the forced sex case of Deralakatte medical student occurred two years ago. Eight people had kidnapped the two medical students, a male and a female on December 18, 2013. The group forced the couple to have sexual intercourse with each other and videographed the act on their mobile phone. Later, they

Mangaluru: Dec 8: Protest by parties and colleagues on Tuesday forced Police Commissioner S?Murugan to recall an inspector who was asked to go on leave for arresting a criminal. Around 2,000 people including police and activists of political parties and Hindutva groups blocked the Mangaluru-Bengaluru bypass in front of Mangaluru Rural (Kankanady) police station after inspector Pramod Kumar was