Karnataka

Mangaluru, Nov 18: A team of police intercepted a vehicle, which was illegally transporting cattle near Belthangady on the outskirts of the city and detained three miscreants. The detained cattle traffickers have been identified as Kumara, Paramesha and P Krishna, hailing from Tarikere in Chikkamagaluru district. It is learnt that they were Bajrang Dal activists. Police sources said that the

Rampur, Nov 18: In a gruesome incident an infant’s head got severed from its body when the doctor and other staff were pulling it out of the mother’s womb during the delivery on Sunday. The headless infant was discarded in a bin, and the doctor proceeded to surgically remove the stuck head. The patient, 32-year-old Musarfeen, was admitted to the district hospital in Rampur on Saturday after she

Bengaluru, Nov 18: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah is used to receiving bouquets and brickbats from voters, but on Tuesday criticism and some sage advice came his way from over 70 students at the child rights parliament. It was a long wait for children at the event organised by the Karnataka Child Rights Observatory, Karnataka State Legislators Forum for Child Rights, and UNICEF, as the

Madikeri, Nov 18: The prohibitory order under Section 144 imposed in Kodagu district following untoward incidents during Tipu Jayanti celebration has been extended till 6 am of November 25. The ban order will be in force from 6 pm to 6 am, In-charge Deputy Commissioner M Kurma Rao, said. Speaking to media persons here on Tuesday, he said barring government programmes, all other public meetings and

Mysuru: Nov, 18: A tiger suspected to have killed a man in HD?Kote taluk in the recent past, resurfaced on Tuesday, devouring a 55-year-old man and injuring another at Hadanuru village, in the same taluk. The deceased has been identified as Shivanna (55), who was grazing cattle when the big cat pounced on him at about 10.30 am. He is the second victim of tiger attack in the past one month

Puttur, Nov 18: Actor Vinod Alva, who was arrested by Puttur police on Monday on charge of murder conspiracy, was remanded in 14 days of judicial custody on Tuesday. Sachidananda Patali, a resident of Eshwarmangala near Puttur, who handled property-related matters of the actor in the village, had filed a complaint accusing Mr. Alva of conspiring to murder him on Sunday, in a road accident. When

Mangaluru, Nov 17: To counter the problem of shortage of ventilators in government hospitals, Minister for Health and Family Welfare U T Khader said that the health department had decided to set up ICUs with ventilators in all government hospitals in district headquarters and 25 taluk hospitals in all districts in the state. Addressing a press conference here on Tuesday, he said that a sum of Rs

Bantwal, Nov 17: In a startling incident, a college student belonging to a minority community was assaulted by a gang of outsiders near Shri Venkatramana Swami (SVS) College in Bantwal, who fled after the assault on Monday evening. The victim has been identified as Ilyas (17), resident of Lorettopadavu-Barekadu in Bantwal. He is a student of Adarsh College in Mangaluru. According to the complaint

Chittoor, Nov 17: The Mayor of Chittoor was today stabbed to death and her husband seriously injured by unidentified assailants, in an attack suspected to be a fallout of a family dispute, police said. The incident occurred at Chittoor Municipal Corporation office when five-six persons with their faces covered barged into Mayor Katari Anuradha's chamber and stabbed her, resulting in her death, DIG

New Delhi, Nov 17: Ashok Singhal, the 89-year-old patron of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, died in a hospital at Gurgaon today. He was admitted in Medanta Hospital on November 13 following a prolonged illness. Singhal was suffering from respiratory problems for over a month now. He was earlier admitted to Medanta on October 20 after his condition deteriorated in Allahabad and was flown in to the