Karnataka

Bengaluru: Sep 14: In a case of honour killing, a 16-year-old girl was poisoned to death by her Hindu parents in Ramanagara district on Saturday night as she had eloped with a Dalit youth. Govindaraju, a barber by profession, and his wife Jayalakshamma fed the girl, a school dropout, food laced with poison. The police on Sunday arrested the couple on charge of murder. The Ramanagara Rural police

Kasaragod, Sep 14: The police have taken a person into custody in connection with the robbery at the Eriyal branch of the Kudlu Service Cooperative bank here. Mehshookh, 28, a resident of Chowki here, was taken into custody on Sunday from a hideout in Bengaluru by a police team led by Kasaragod Dy SP T.P. Ranjith. The police team is on the way to Kasaragod. Four others, including the mastermind of

Mangaluru, Sep 13: Sri Rama Sena Chief Pramod Muthalik has slammed Criminal Investigation Department and the government for arresting and interrogating Hindu activists over the killing of rationalist and the former Vice-Chancellor of Kannada University M.M. Kalburgi. Talking to reporters after a district convention of Sri Rama Sena, here on Sunday Mr. Muthalik alleged that efforts are on to target

Al-Quds, Sep 13: Israeli occupying forces have once again stormed the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East al-Quds (Jerusalem) and clashed with the Palestinian worshipers there. Witnesses said a number of Palestinians were injured in the clashes, though this was denied by the Israeli police The clashes erupted on Sunday with Israeli forces firing tear gas to disperse Palestinians. Three people were

Mangaluru, Sep 13: Two motorbike-borne miscreants stabbed a middle-aged auto-rickshaw driver in the broad daylight on Market Road in the city on Sunday. The injured man has been identified as Gopalakrishna (45), a resident of Panjimogaru, on the outskirts of the city. He has been admitted to a hospital. Medical sources said that he is out of danger. The miscreants fled the spot soon after stabbing

New York, Sep 13: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit the headquarters of social media giant Facebook on September 27 and is also expected to go to Googleplex, the campus of tech giant Google. Modi on his second visit to the US, will be visiting the headquarters of Facebook in Silicon Valley's Menlo Park for a townhall Q&A, the company's founder Mark Zuckerberg announced today. "I'm excited to

Mangaluru, Sep 13: Dakshina Kannada district administration has issued a notice to all medical establishments such as private hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, laboratories and scanning centres, to display the price list of all medical services and treatment offered by them, to ensure that the patients are not charged with exorbitant rates. The district health officer has issued a notice for

Davangere, Sep 13: The State government will construct 200 bridges at a cost of Rs 1,000 crore, with assistance from the Housing and Urban Development Corporation, in the State, Public Works Minister H.C. Mahadevappa has said. Speaking after launching various development works worth Rs. 79 crore in Davangere taluk, including construction of an overbridge here on Saturday, he said the bridge, a

Mumbai, Sep 13: Abdul Wahid Shaikh, a teacher by profession, the only suspect in the 7/11 train blasts to be acquitted by the court, was released from the Arthur Road jail at 3 pm on Saturday. Accompanied by his younger brother, Javed, Shaikh first arrived at the Bhendi Bazar office of Jamiat-ul-Ulema, a socio-religious body, to meet its office bearers. Jamiat has appointed lawyers to take up

Hubballi, Sep 13: The State government has floated tenders for purchasing 900 MW of power, Energy Minister D?K?Shivakumar has said. On Saturday, the minister said that though attempts were being made to reduce load-shedding hours in urban areas, power cut for at least an hour had become inevitable owing to the crisis in the State. He said thermal plants at Yarmaras and Ballari were expected to