Karnataka

Ujire, Nov 20: Venoor police in Belthangady taluk on Wednesday arrested a youth from Arambodi village on charges of sexually assaulting a PUC student. The accused has been identified as Hariprasad Shetty, aged 26, from Arambodi. It is learnt that the accused raped the minor girl when she was alone at home few months ago and had threatened to kill her if she revealed this to her parents. Now, after

Bengaluru, Nov 20: Politicians in Karnataka have sought a ban on the TV reality show Bigg Boss being telecast on Colors Kannada channel after a contestant bashed up another contestant during a live show. The contestant Huchcha Venkat, a film actor, was eliminated from the show following the assault. "Bigg Boss reality show is not in good taste...the contestants do not follow any norms of society

Haridwar, Nov 20: Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat of the Congress is the latest to add to controversial comments on beef and cow slaughter. He has said that those who kill cows have "no right to live in the country." "Anyone who kills cows, no matter which community he belongs to, is India's biggest enemy and has no right to live in the country," Mr Rawat said at a function in the holy

Mangaluru, Nov 20: Two police constables have been suspended for their allegedly allowing an inmate of Mangaluru District Prison to speak media persons while he was being taken to a local court. On November 3, Faizal, an under trail, had called media persons, who were waiting outside the Mangaluru prison, and accused prison officials of being involved in the murder of Madoor Isubbu and his

Mangaluru, Nov 20: Four persons were arrested after they barged into Belthangady police station and threatened a police officer with a revolver and abused other police personnel on Thursday. The arrested have been identified as Dayanada (37), Ravi (40), Ranganath Bhat (46) from Hassan district and Basavaraj from Belagavi district. According to the police, Dayanand and three other activists

Bengaluru, Nov 20: Two business management students were killed and three injured when the car in which they were travelling rammed a roadside tree near Chandapura on the city’s outskirts on Thursday. While Dhruva and Ashwin, aged around 23, were killed on the spot, the other three, identified as Anjum, Prithvi and Krishna, have been admitted to a private hospital with multiple injuries. The

Bengaluru/Srirangapatna (Mandya dist): Nov 20: One of the five elephants lodged at a now-defunct amusement park in Srirangapatna taluk after a circus troupe owner abandoned them has succumbed to prolonged illness and months of neglect by its caretakers. Chanchal, 63, was suffering from arthritis and malnutrition and had stopped eating for the last two days. Private veterinarians were attending to

Saragur(Mysuru dist)/bengaluru, Nov 20: Two days after a cowherd was devoured by a tiger at Hadanur village in Hediyala forest limits in HD Kote taluk in Mysuru district, the forest department personnel succeeded in shooting the big cat dead. Forest watcher Shivakumar (30), who had gone to tether a buffalo as a bait to a tree near Nanjadevarabetta inside the forest was injured after the tiger

Dubai, Nov 19: Former president of Sharjah Karnataka Sangha, BK Ganesh Rai is being conferred with the 'Global Man Award 2015' for his contributions to Kannada language, literature, art, folk and social service in India and oversees. The award will be presented to him during the 12th Vishwa Kannada Samskruthi Sammelana & 13th anniversary of Sharjah Karnataka Sangha Celebrations to be held on 19th

Mangaluru, Nov 19: In a shocking revelation, it was found that the murder of Harish Poojary in Bantwal was largely a case of mistaken identity, and the perpetrators of the crime intended to cause harm or take the lives of the victims without any apparent motive, for the sole reason that they belonged to the minority community. Addressing media persons in the city on Thursday, IGP (Western Range)