Karnataka

New Delhi, Aug 27: Karnataka government’s bike ambulance system is expected to be adopted by an African nation soon. The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia has shown interest in launching two-wheeler ambulance service to provide emergency medical assistance to accident victims. After he was briefed about the bike ambulance service introduced recently in Karnataka by its heath and family

Mangaluru, Aug 27: Two men and a woman were apprehended by police for allegedly involving in immoral activities under the limits of Ullal police station in Mangaluru taluk. Acting on a tip off, sleuths from Ullal police station led by Sub Inspector Bharathi raided a deserted house where a woman and four men were present. Two men among them managed to escape. A police constable, identified as

Mumbai, Aug 27: The just-released Census figures are “disturbing” and the rise in the Muslim population is because of “politics of religion”, the Shiv Sena has said. The party, a constituent of the NDA governments in Maharashtra and at the Centre, also said the country is still a Hindu nation that has the “poison of secularism” in it. “There is no need for active Hindutva forces to go gung ho

New Delhi, Aug 27: Marking a key step in the NDA government's infrastructure push, Minister of Urban Development Venkaiah Naidu on Thursday announced the list of ninety eight smart cities that the government has shortlisted. While Uttar Pradesh has bagged the maximum number of smart cities projects at 13, Tamil Nadu has got 12 and Maharashtra 10. Madhya Pradesh will have seven smart cities and

Mangaluru, Aug 27: An eve-teaser from an engineering college was thrashed in full public view and handed over to police by a group of college girls for teasing and harassing their friend in the city. The humiliated eve-teaser has been identified as Kiran alias Karan from Bagalkot, who was perusing engineering in the coastal city. In her complaint to Barke police, the 20-year-old student of a women

Mangaluru, Aug 27: Unidentified miscreants attacked an auto rickshaw driver, at the auto stand opposite Kasturba Medical College (KMC) Hospital at Attavar in the city last night. The incident two days after a group of rowdies swearing allegiance to saffron outfits stripped and brutally thrashed a youth for being with a woman belonging to another community in the same spot. It is learnt that on the

Mangaluru, Aug 27: Those Madrasas promoting biased policy with respect to girls' education in the state should be closed, opined Kannada writer Sara Aboobaker. Speaking at the screening programme of documentary 'Swargada Haadiyalli Kamarutthiruva Kanasugalu' filmed by journalist Irshad Uppinangady, in the city recently, she said that sending Muslim girls to Madrasas was causing problems with

Hyderabad, Aug 27: In a shocking incident, a 10-day-old baby died after being bitten by rats in the intensive care unit (ICU) of a government-run hospital in Guntur town of Andhra Pradesh. Though the mother of the newborn noticed wounds on Sunday, the hospital authorities suppressed the facts. The family revealed the incident after the baby died on Wednesday. The boy was born to a woman named

Udupi, Aug 27: A doctor, who had gone missing under mysterious circumstances from Manipal, here on Tuesday, has been traced to Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu. Police sources said that, 30-year-old Dr Rajarajan Murugaiyan, pursuing super-specialisation D.M. course, at the Cardiology Department of Kasturba Hospital here, had left the city without informing anyone. The doctor had left the Manipal

Udupi, Aug 27: In a shocking incident, a 9-year-old girl was found hanging at her house under mysterious circumstances at Malpe in Udupi district in the early hours of Tuesday. According to the jurisdictional Malpe police, the deceased has been identified as Lalita, daughter of Parmesh Lamani and Shantha Lamani from Medleri tanda, Rannebennur, Haveri district. Parmesh works as a fisherman at Malpe