Karnataka

Mangaluru, Nov 19: The overwhelming crowd of youth looking for employment opportunities at ‘Mangaluru Udyoga Mela’ hosted by Dakshina Kannada district administration in Bantwal taluk, served to prove the serious requirement of creating viable job opportunities for educated unemployed and graduates passing out from colleges each year. Reiterating the necessity for feasible employment opportunities

Mangaluru, Nov 19: The officers of Customs, Mangalore International Airport seized about 2 kgs of gold valued about Rs.53 lakhs from a passenger who arrived from Dubai. According to a press release issued by the Mangaluru customs, the officers enquired with a passenger as to whether he possessed any dutiable items to be declared to Customs. As the passenger could not provide satisfactory reply and

Coimbatore, Nov 19: A Hindu Mahasabha leader and two other lawyers, who were allegedly in an inebriated state, have been arrested on charges of harassing the crew and passengers of a Chennai-bound flight before it was to take off from here last night. The three, Senthel Kumar, Raja, both from Perundurai, and Subhash Swaminathan from Trichy, who is Vice President of Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha's

New Delhi, Nov 19: A research scholar with 95% disablility , for whom even getting admitted to a school was a challenge, has been awarded doctorate in Computer Science by Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in a special ceremony. Akshansh Gupta, fondly called as Bunty Dada, was awarded Phd for his thesis 'Brain Computer Interface' by VC S K Sopory ahead of the formal convocation ceremony scheduled

Kasaragod, Nov 19: The new governing bodies of Kasaragod, Kanhangad and Neeleshwaram municipalities came into being on Wednesday with the councillors electing the chairpersons and vice-chairpersons through ballot. Beefathima Ibrahim of the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) was elected chairperson of the Kasaragod municipality. Ms. Beefathima, who won from the Kollampady ward, received 21 votes

New Delhi, Nov 19: A Delhi Police constable accidentally opened fire near Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 7, Race Course Road residence late on Wednesday. Nobody was injured in the incident on Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Marg. Police confirmed that three shots were fired from the AK-47 of a PCR van's gunman. “The incident was reported from PCR van Victor 35 which was at a parking lot near the Prime

Udupi, Nov 19: A case of chain-snatching on a train has been reported near Barkur Railway Station in Udupi district on Tuesday. According to the police, a woman, Girija Rajan (53), a resident of Kozhikode, was travelling on Mumbai Express (Train No 12134) from Mangaluru to Byndoor, when a youth aged between 25 and 30, snatched two gold chains from her neck and fled from the scene between 5 p.m

Bengaluru, Nov 19: The Legislative Council on?Wednesday witnessed heated exchange of words between the Congress and the BJP?members over the implementation of the Yettinahole project. Ivan D’Souza (Cong) raised the issue during Question Hour and stated that there was confusion regarding the project. D’Souza said the people of the coastal region were protesting against the project and that

Bengaluru, Nov 19: Former Deputy CM and BJP MLC KS Eshwarappa has charged that the State government was giving protection to those Muslims who are “traitors.” “There are good persons among Muslims too. We have a lot of respect for personalities such as former president Abdul Kalam. But in the Shivamogga programme, some Muslims had come to the event holding machetes. By the time the event concluded

Bengaluru, Nov 19: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah had assured that the recommendations of the Anwar Manippady commission would be placed before the House during the joint session to be held during January or February, said S R Patil, in the Legislative Council on Wednesday. Following the Business Advisory Committee meeting chaired by Siddaramaiah, Patil informed the House that the report will be