Karnataka

Raichur, Sep 20: The Raichur police arrested Sri Ram Sene district president Manjunath Bavi and Rajachandra, a member of the sene, on the charge of threatening senior Kannada writers — Chennaveera Kanavi and Giraddi Govindaraj — at a press meet on Saturday. They were later released on bail. The police have also booked two other activists of the sene. The Sene leaders threatened to “destroy the

Mangaluru, Sep 19: The green activists of Dakshina Kannada district have decided to continue their protest against the Yettinahole water diversion project, after elected representatives of the district on Saturday failed to provide answers to the 10 questions raised by them. A fortnight ago, Sahyadri Sanchaya, an organisation of green activists, had asked 10 questions to the eight MLAs, two MLCs

Mangaluru, Sep 19: Stating that it is too early to draw conclusions about Yettinahole Integrated Drinking Water Project, Health and Family Welfare Minister UT Khader said that success of the project is in God’s hands! Addressing media persons in the city on Saturday the minister reiterated the incumbent Karnataka government’s commitment to provide water to the places hit by water shortage (by

New Delhi, Sep 19: With hundreds of families across the country preparing Eid-al-Adha in the last week of September, the ban on sale of meat, including beef, has come as a huge setback for the traders who were expecting a good business during the festive season. Akbar Qureshi, a meat trader in the Mankhurd area of Mumbai, is a worried man since the ban on beef came into force in Maharashtra in

Mangaluru, Sep 19: The agitation against the diversion of river in Dakshina Kannada district, continued with thousands of students from various colleges on Saturday staged a massive protest in Mangaluru demanding the state government to drop the project. The agitators took out a march from Ambedkar Circle and converged in front of the office of Deputy Commissioner, where a protest meet was held

Dubai, Sep 19: Shaikh Rashid Bin Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the eldest son of His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, died of heart attack on Saturday. He was 34. Funeral prayers will be held after Maghrib prayers at Zabeel Mosque. The burial will be held in Bur Dubai's Umm Hurair cemetery. A three-day mourning

Kasaragod, Sep 19: When the news of the killing of 52-year-old Farooq killing reached back home, finishing touches were being given to his new home at Panayapilly, near Mattancherry in Kerala. Having spent close to quarter of a century in Saudi Arabia, he wished to shift his family to that new house. “His biggest dream was to settle in his home town,” Rashid, Farooq’s son-in-law said. Farooq, an

Mangaluru: Sep 19: Children, who are learning the alphabets of basketball, were thrilled to see Indian Basketball giants in Mangala Indoor Stadium here on Friday. Nitte University and Mangalore Basketball Club had invited the Indian Basketball men’s team, which will play in 28th FIBA Asia Basketball championship at Chanesha, China from September 23. Speaking to media persons on the occasion

Udupi, Sep 19: In an unfortunate incident, a teenager was killed and another injured due to a brake failure in a truck carrying a Ganesh idol during the immersion procession at Mudrady village in Hebri police station limits, in Karkala taluk on Friday. The victim has been identified as Abhijeet (18) from Moodabidri in Dakshina Kannada district. The Hebri police said the procession carrying the

Mumbai, Sep 19: The Maharashtra police are probing a possible link in the sensational murders of rationalist and anti-superstition activist Dr Narendra Dabholkar, Leftist leader and secularist Comrade Govind Pansare and Kannada litterateur Prof M M Kalburgi. “We see a possible common link and hence there is a probe under way exploring that angle as well,” highly-placed sources in the Maharashtra