Karnataka

New Delhi, Oct 10: CBI today carried out searches at residential and official premises of liquor baron Vijay Mallya and his now-defunct company Kingfisher Airlines in five places in connection with alleged default of over Rs 900 crore loan from IDBI Bank. CBI sources said searches were carried out at the offices and residence of Mallya in Mumbai, Goa, Bangalore and other places. They said a case

Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 10: Malayalam writer Sarah Joseph has announced that she will return the Sahitya Akademi award, while noted poet K Satchidanandan resigned from all Akademi posts on Saturday. Joseph, who won the prestigious honour for her novel 'Aalahayude Penmakkal' (Daughters of God the Father), said she would soon send the cash prize and plaque to the Akademi via courier. This is the

Meerut, Oct 10: BJP MLA Sangeet Singh Som, who is at the forefront of the frenzied anti-beef protests, is in fact a co-founder of one of India’s “halal” meat export companies, which exports beef along with other meat. The company, Al-Dua Food Processing Private Ltd, was founded by Mr. Som, along with Moinuddin Qureshi and a third partner, to deal in meat and meat products in 2005. According to Al

Haveri, Oct 10: Providing succour to distressed farmers, the Karnataka government today announced waiver of interest and penal interest on crop loans from cooperative banks for the current fiscal and hike in compensation from Rs 2 lakh to Rs 5 lakh to families of farmers who had committed suicide. The government would also increase monthly widow pension from Rs 500 to Rs 2,000 and bear educational

Mangaluru, Oct 10: Nearly four years after prominent BJP leader and then chief minister DV Sadananda Gowda approved the Yettinahole river diversion project, the Dakshina Kannada unit of BJP on Saturday launched a four day padayatra holding incumbent Congress government responsible for the controversial project. Nalin Kumar Kateel, the Members of Parliament from Dakshina Kannada, is leading the

Mangaluru, Oct 10: A resident of Valencia locality in Manglauru has lodged a complaint against display of porn images on some Twitter handles that were accessible to children. In his complaint to the Mangaluru South police, Santosh Kumar Samatha said he was shocked to see pornographic images and movies being circulated through some Twitter handles. These photographs and movies were being accessed

Kundapur, Oct 10: A hardware shop was gutted in fire at Idoor-Kunhady near Kollur in Kundapur taluk causing huge loss to the owner. No casualty or injury has been reported. According to the owner of the Swasti Hardwares, property worth four million rupees was destroyed in the fire mishap that occurred on Friday evening. The ill-fated hardware shop is located at Patel Complex owned by two brothers

Mangaluru, Oct 10: The Social Democratic Party of India, (SDPI) has welcomed the returning of the prestigious national literary awards to the government by two well-known litterateurs in protest to spree of violence engulfing the country leading to communal cauldron boiling especially in the poll bound states. SDPI national president A. Sayeed in a statement said that intellectuals like Nayantara

Gaza City, Oct 10: Israeli fire killed five Palestinians and wounded 21 during clashes Friday near Gaza’s border, the first unrest-related deaths there after days of violence in east Jerusalem and the West Bank, medics said. The clashes came as Hamas chief in Gaza called violence that has hit the occupied West Bank and annexed east Jerusalem an intifada, or uprising, and urged further unrest

Bengaluru/ New Delhi, Oct 10: Eminent writer and Padma Shri-awardee Shashi Deshpande on Friday resigned from the Sahitya Akademi’s Governing Council. She was disappointed with the literary body’s failure to protest against the murder of noted Kannada scholar M M Kalburgi and all such acts of “violent intolerance”. The Bengaluru-based writer, in her letter to Akademi president Vishwanath Prasad