Karnataka

Mangaluru, Oct 11: A married man has been arrested by Konaje police in Mangaluru taluk on charge of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy. Konaje police on Saturday October 10 arrested a man at Malaru near Inoli for allegedly sexually harassing a 14-year-old boy. Arun Rodrigues (32), a resident of Pajir village was produced before a court by Konaje police after arresting him. The victim was

Bengaluru, Oct 11: Bengaluru’s Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) stood third in India as far as tourist arrivals on e-tourist visa is concerned, accounting for 7.44 per cent of the overall arrivals in September this year. Over two lakh tourists arrived on e-tourist visa from January to September this year. During September, a total of 31,729 tourists arrived on e-tourist visa, a release said

Mandya, Oct 11: Member of Parliament C S Puttaraju has accused ex-MP Ramya of playing petty politics in issuing a cheque for the family of the farmer, who had committed suicide recently. Rahul Gandhi had handed over the KPCC cheque for Rs 1 lakh to Shobha, wife of the deceased farmer Lokesh of Sanabadakoppalu, on Friday, during his visit. “Shobha was in grief and hence she did not pay attention to

Mangaluru, Oct 11: Despite the fact that the construction work of the Padil-Bajal road under railway bridge was undertaken at a fast-pace over the past few months, the facility is nowhere close to being ready for use. It is still unclear when the underpass will be completed and opened for the use of commuters. The water-logging of the underpass with rainwater and drainage water has mostly led to

Mangaluru, Oct 11: A gang of five robbers gagged a businessman, his wife and their maid and decamped with gold ornaments and cash from their house in Mandekolu village in Sullia on Saturday. According to jurisdictional Sullia police, the robbers gained entry into the house of 68-year-old businessman Ramachandra around 2.30 a.m. by breaking open the rear door. The robbers first gagged Ramachandra

New Delhi, Oct 11: At a time when “beef politics” is dominating Bihar Assembly poll campaigning, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh ruled out the possibility of a central law on cow slaughter “at the moment”. Singh also described the Dadri lynching incident as “unfortunate” and held the Samajwadi Party-ruled government in Uttar Pradesh responsible as it was a “law and order issue” that “states must

Mangaluru, Oct 10: The Kudroli Gokarnatheshwara Temple is gearing up to host the Mangaluru Dasara 2015 starting October 13 and ending with a colourful procession on October 23. The temple committee spokesperson Harikrishna Bantwal told presspersons here on Saturday that all the arrangements were in the final stages. The committee has decided to hold Brahma Kalasha to mark the silver jubilee of the

Mangaluru, Oct 10: Normal life was affected on the second consecutive day on Saturday in Moodbidri town of Dakshina Kannada district where Sangh Parivar activists unleashed violence on Friday following the murder of a Bajrang Dal activist by unidentified miscreants. 29-year-old Prashant Poojary was hacked to death in front of his flower shop in the relatively peaceful town by six men. Even though

Udupi, Oct 10: A Muslim cattle trader was brutally assaulted by a gang over around 30 miscreants belong to Sangh Parivar at Karkala in Karnataka’s coastal district of Udupi. The victim of last Tuesday’s attack, identified as Ibrahim Padubidri, is still undergoing treatment at a hospital in Udupi. The murderous attack comes even as protests erupt across the country against the lynching of a Muslim

Haveri, Oct 10: Undertaking a padayatra and interacting with farmers, Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi today counselled the peasants not to commit suicide as it was no solution to their problems. On the second day of his tour of Karnataka to comfort the distressed families of farmers who had committed suicide, Rahul started about a seven-km long padayatra from Maidur village in Haveri district