Karnataka

Mangaluru, Oct 17: Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Academy announced its honourary awards and book award for 2014. Writer Vadiraj Bhat (Tulu literature), M K Seetharam Kulal (Tulu theatre) and Ram Shetty Mumbai (Tulu cinema) have been selected for Tulu Academy Award. Meanwhile, Sharada M Anchan, author of 'Paaddana', has been selected for Tulu Book Award. Academy chairperson M Janaki Brahmavara said the

Mangaluru, Oct 17: The Mangaluru City Corporation on Saturday formally launched Malaria Control Software – a technology-based initiative that helps in tracking and control of malaria. Health and Family Welfare Minister U.T. Khader and Mayor Jacintha Vijay Alfred launched the operations. The software has been developed for the MCC by Mangalore Medical Relief Society with the assistance of I-Point

Mangaluru, Oct 17: Dakshina Kannada Superintendent of Police Dr S D Sharanappa on Saturday launched the revised blog of Dakshina Kannada District Police at the district police headquarters in the city. Simultaneously, the Facebook and Twitter pages of the DK district police department were launched on the occasion. Speaking at a press conference following the launch, Mr Sharanappa said that as

Ramanagara, Oct 17: Senior BJP leader and former Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister K S Eshwarappa today courted controversy when he asked a woman journalist what can the opposition members do if "someone drags and rapes" her. Responding to a woman journalist's question if opposition BJP has failed in its duty by not making government accountable for such crimes, Eshwarappa, Leader of Opposition in

Kundapur, Oct 17: Objecting to his image printed on cutout banners of the golden jubilee celebrations of Sharada Mahothsava Committee at Kandlur in Kundapur taluk, Udupi district Superintendent of Police Annamalai forced the organizers to remove such banners. The organising committee of the Sharada Mahothsava had invited SP Annamalai as the chief guest in the golden jubilee celebrations of the

Mangaluru, Oct 17: The Detailed Project Report (DPR) prepared for Yettinahole project by Karnataka Neeravari Nigam Limited is a Document for Pro Rich based on miscalculations and assumptions of convenience. The government is trying to divide the people by making misleading statements, said Dr TV Ramachandra, professor at Energy and Wetlands Research Group, Centre for Ecological Sciences (CES) at

New Delhi, Oct 17: Two minors were brutally gangraped in the city, incidents which comes close on the heels of the rape of a four-year-old girl in northwest Delhi last week. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal expressed concern over the "repeated" rape of minors in the city and asked what the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Delhi LG were doing. While a two-and-a-half-year-old girl was raped

New Delhi, Oct 17: A retired Indian Forest Services (IFS) officer Vijay Bahadur, who was an observer for two recruitment tests in the Vyapam scam was found dead on a railway track in Odisha. Bahadur was travelling to Bhopal from Puri with his wife Nita Singh by the Puri-Jodhpur Express. The Hindustan times quoted a Railway police official saying prima facie Bahadur’s death was likely due to a fall

Mangaluru, Oct 17: A team of doctors from City Hospital have granted a new lease of life to a 70 year old female patient by performing a very rare, innovative, unique and very complicated laparoscopic surgery recently which is reported to be first of its kind in the medical history of coastal Karnataka. Chickmagaluru district based 70 year old lady patient approached eminent consultant surgical

Muduigere, Oct 17: Tension prevailed at Kunduru village, near Mudigere in Chikkamagaluru district, on Friday morning, when residents set a private bus on fire, following an accident in which a man was killed. A two-wheeler rider died on the spot after being hit by a bus belonging to KKB Travels. The incident occurred at about 8 a.m. The police gave the name of the deceased as Mahesh (34) from