Karnataka

Mangaluru, Sep 30: Alleging that the police department had been handling the two-year-old case of the mysterious death of a student Akshata with a casual and negligent attitude without reaching a proper conclusion, members of the Adyar unit of BJP Yuva Morcha said that they suspected foul play in the death and the police was making no efforts to trace the accused responsible for it. Addressing

Karwar, Sep 30: More than 500 Kannadigas whose houses were razed to ground at Baina in Goa last week, have been literally thrown into streets. The authorities of the district administration demolished 157 houses on the Kate Baina beach last week. The families are now living on footpath. Soorappa, who lost his house in the drive, said that the police were not allowing them to even stay on the

Patna, Sep 30: Just ahead of the Bihar polls, Abhay Kushwaha, a JD(U) candidate from Gaya, has sparked a controversy by dancing with a pole-dancer. In a video, which is now going viral, Abhay Kushwaha is seen dancing in an obscene manner with a bar dancer. Kushwaha is also seen throwing money at the dancer. Towards the end of the video, the JD(U) man is seen slipping on the floor while trying to

Mumbai, Sep 30: Five convicts in the 2006 Mumbai local train bombings, which killed 188 people and injured over 800, were on Wednesday sentenced to death by a Mumbai special court. Pronouncing the verdict, the special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court judge Yatin Shinde sentenced to death Faisal Sheikh, Asif Khan, Kamal Ansari, Ehtesham Sidduqui and Naveed Khan who planted

Tumakuru, Sep 30: Vishwesha Tirtha Swami, the chief pontiff of Pejawar Mutt has questioned why the intellectuals spoke only against Hinduism and not against other faiths. Speaking to presspersons here on Tuesday, he said that intellectuals, including K.S. Bhagawan, were speaking only against Hindu religion and god. “If they have the courage let them also speak against Islam and Christianity,” he

Chennai, Sep 30: Income tax officials on Wednesday raided houses of leading southern actors Vijay, Samantha Ruth Prabhu and Nayantara. According to sources, a total of 32 places were raided in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Hyderabad. Houses, offices and other properties of actors Vijay, Samantha Ruth Prabhu and Nayantara were raided simultaneously. The IT sleuths also raided the houses of the producers

Mangaluru: Sep 30: The Mangalore Diocese has resolved to oppose Yettinahole project. The decision was taken during a seminar at Bishop’s House in Mangaluru on Tuesday. The demands put forth by the Diocese, as a part of the resolution, are that the government should take up alternative projects on the models of Gujarat and Rajasthan to provide water to parched districts. The Yettinahole project

Udupi, Sep 30: Ramdas M Pai, the Chancellor of Manipal University and chairman of Manipal Education and Medical Group, has been conferred with the Lifetime Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2015 by ‘Education World’ in New Delhi. A press release issued by Manipal University here stated that, ‘Education World’ is a human development magazine with a wide coverage of educational institutions

Belagavi/Mudhol, 30: Communal violence that broke out in Mudhol of Bagalkot district during a Ganapati immersion procession last week, continued to spread in other parts of Karnataka. Tension gripped Belagavi city following eruption of violence in communally-sensitive areas of the city late on Monday night. In what appeared to be a planned attack, a car was damaged and an auto-rickshaw set ablaze

Dadri, Sep 30: A 50-year-old man was beaten to death by a mob near Delhi on Monday night, allegedly over rumours that his family had stored and eaten beef. Mohammad Akhlaq and his son, 22, were dragged out by villagers in Dadri in Uttar Pradesh, around 45 km from the capital, and beaten with bricks. Akhlaq died and his son is critical in hospital. When the police arrived, the mob was still