Karnataka

Belagavi, Sep 8: Tension gripped members of the Christian community when they found some miscreants were vandalising a portion of a cemetery on Monday. Over a dozen crosses installed atop graves at the cemetery in Bharatnagar of Shahapur were found broken, damaged and uprooted. Some of the graves had also been damaged and a waiting room inside the cemetery was found burnt. Empty liquor bottles and

New Delhi, Sep 8: Up to five passengers received “minor” injuries during evacuation when a wheel of an Air India plane with 159 people onboard caught fire while landing under emergency conditions at the Indira Gandhi International Airport following hydraulic failure, airport sources said. “Air India flight AI 405 from Varanasi to Delhi had an emergency landing here as the pilot reported hydraulic

Mangaluru, Sep 8: A minor girl has lodged a complaint at Uppinangady police station, alleging that she was threatened by a member of local taluk panchayat and two unidentified women, demanding the withdrawal of a case on a teacher registered under the POCSO Act. The victim is a student of Class 10 at Saralikatte Government High School near Uppinangady. Few days ago, the girl had lodged a complaint

Mangaluru, Sep 8: After a gap of few days, the coastal districts of Karnataka received moderate rains on Monday evening and Tuesday morning. The sky remained overcast along with mild showers. A youth was killed when lightning struck him here at Palubettu in Anjaru village in Hiriyadka in Udupi district. According to the police, the deceased has been identified as Sandeep Poojary (26). The Uttara

Bengaluru, Sep 8: The three children, who had gone missing from their Banaswadi school in August, had indeed met with a gory end. The police managed to trace the accused, who confessed to having murdered the children and dumping their bodies into a manhole. The accused is their uncle — their father’s cousin — who was allegedly having an affair with the children’s mother. Fayum Baig (24), an

Bengaluru, Sep 8: JD (S) leader H D Kumaraswamy on Monday made a complete U-turn by withdrawing the conditions he had set for forging an alliance with the Congress in the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahangara Palike Council. Addressing the media in Bengaluru, Kumaraswamy said his party would not even try to bargain for power-sharing in the Council anymore. “I had put certain conditions for the Congress

Udupi , Sep 8: The Udupi police have sought a body warrant to investigate the second case, regarding of the extortion calls made to Anand Shetty, a business man from Santhekatte by underworld don Bannanje Raja. The police produced the don before the Principal Civil Judge (Senior Division) and Chief Judicial Magistrate Court on Monday. The Assistant Public Prosecutor Shantibai said that the police

Mangaluru, Sep 7: Issuing a stern warning to those who indulge in rowdyism and goondaism Karnataka Home Minister K J George has said that police should be ruthless towards those who take law into their hands. Mr George, who toured the coastal district on Monday to inaugurate a police station and a fire station at Sullia and a traffic police station in Puttur, responded to the queries of media

Kasaragod, Sep 7: In a major heist, masked men robbed huge amount of gold and cash from a bank in the outskirts of Kudlu city in Kasaragod on Monday. The conmen looted 21 kg of gold and Rs 13 lakh in cash after threatening the bank staff around 3 pm. There were two women employees and a woman who had come to pawn gold in the bank during the time of the robbery. The four-member gang, who arrived in

Mangaluru, Sep 7: A female student pursuing her MBBS course in a private medical college in Kadri police station limits has reportedly gone missing from Friday. According to the missing complaint lodged at Kadri police station, Usha (22), from Tamil Nadu went missing during her lunch break after attending the first clinical lecture in the college at 11.30 a.m. on Friday. The complaint was lodged