Karnataka

Mangaluru, Dec 2: ‘Grand Konkan Showers 2015’, the 15th anniversary celebrations of St Mary’s Konkan Community (SKMC), is scheduled for Sunday, December 6 at St Agnes Special School Grounds in Bendur, Mangaluru. The event will be a spectacular extravaganza. The ever popular 264th ‘Wilfy Nite’ Konkani musical show will be the limelight event on the day. The Bishop of Mangaluru, Dr Aloysius Paul D

Washington, Dec 2: Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan has decided to donate 99 per cent of their shares in the company to charity during their lives in an effort to make a happy and healthy world as they announced the birth of their daughter Maxima. In a letter to Maxima posted on his Facebook page, Zuckerberg said that "We are committed to doing our small part to help

New Delhi, Dec 2: A visibly upset Prime Minister Narendra Modi left the Lok Sabha on Wednesday as opposition members created a din demanding the sacking of minister V.K. Singh. After some 40 minutes of uproar, during which Speaker Sumitra Mahajan's repeated requests to the protesting MPs to calm down fell on deaf ears, Modi left the house. The opposition MPs said they wanted Minister of State for

Mangaluru, Dec 2: A tense atmosphere prevailed in Alekala village near Ullal after a group of youths led by activists of Social Democratic Party of India laid siege to the house of a Muslim leader protesting his silence over the arrest of “innocents” by Ullal police. According to police the agitators also pelted stones at a police vehicle which rushed to the spot following a request by US Hamza

Mangaluru, Dec 2: Two youths were arrested by police in Ullal on charge of indulging in violence in front of a hospital at Thokkottu in the wake of a rape of a nursery student of Mangalore One School earlier this year. The arrested have been identified as Asif (33) and Umar Koya (25), both residents of Madoor village. Both the accused were produced before a court on Tuesday evening. It could be

Mangaluru, Dec 2: Sandalwood actor Vinod Alva, who had been arrested by police in Puttur in connection with an attempt to murder case, has finally secured a bail. The Additional District and Sessions Court, Puttur, on Tuesday allowed a petition filed by the actor seeking his enlargement on bail. However, the conditions set by the court were not known yet. A government advocate said that the bail

Belagavi/Uttara Kannada,?Dec 2: Ten people including four of a family were killed in two separate accidents in Belagavi and Uttara Kannada districts on Tuesday. Three people died on the spot and three suffered serious injuries after the car they were travelling by rammed into a tree near Burunki village at Khanapur taluk in Belagavi district on Tuesday. The deceased have been identified as Mahesh

Bengaluru:?Dec 2: All the teachers’ training colleges affiliated to different universities in Karnataka now have to switch over to two-year Bachelor of Education (BEd) course as per the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) regulations. The Higher Education department has issued a notification fixing the BEd course period at two years. The BEd aspirants and college managements were in a

Mysuru: Dec 1: Registrar of University of Mysore C?Basavaraju, on Monday, emphasised on a detailed study into the rocket technology adopted during the period of Hyder Ali and his son Tipu Sultan. Speaking at a seminar on ‘Ancient history and science,’ organised by Vidyarthi Vichara Vedike, Kuvempu Institute of Kannada Studies and departments of study in History and Sociology at Humanities

Udupi, Dec 1: Though the total number of HIV cases has come down in Udupi district compared to previous years, the number of children with HIV has increased. According to District AIDS Prevention and Control Unit, as many as 315 persons have tested positive for HIV in the district till October this year. Among them 309 were adults and six were children. In 2014, 473 persons had tested positive for