Karnataka

Puttur, Aug 21: An incident where thieves broke into a cigarette wholesale dealer's godown and made away with bundles of cigarettes worth Rs 16.24 lakh from the godown located in Kallare in Puttur late on Wednesday night. The theft was discovered when the godown employees arrived at the godown at 8.45 a.m. on Thursday morning. The cigarette godown belonged to a businessman Pushparaj Shetty from

Delhi, Aug 21: After a teacher highlighted the spelling mistakes in the Education Minister's letter, Smriti Irani has become a butt of jokes on social media platforms. In the letter, which was sent to schoolteachers applauding them for the performance of their students, the words 'Minister' and 'Sansadhan' were spelt incorrectly. Richa Kumar of Delhi Public School spotted the error and posted it

Mangalore, Aug 21: Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) India Program conducted a workshop on ‘Dealing with leopards and elephants in human use landscapes’ and the role of media in assisting in resolving these issues. The workshop was held in association with Mangalore Press Club and DK Working Journalists Union. Vidya Athreya and Virat Singh were the chief resource persons for the programme. In

Mangaluru, Aug 21: A young auto rickshaw driver was found dead inside his three-wheeler on Friday morning at Vamanjoor in Mangaluru taluk. Police sources said that 28-year-old Suresh, a resident of Sultan Battery was found dead with a nylon rope tied around his neck. A passerby who noticed the dead body onboard the auto-rickshaw which was parked near Mangalajyothi School since Thursday night

Mangaluru, Aug 21: With the final batch of Hajj pilgrims leaving for Madinah from Mangaluru International Airport (MIA) at Kenjar on Thursday, a total of 670 pilgrims have travelled to Madinah from Mangaluru this year to begin their pilgrimage through the Central Hajj Committee. All the five batches of pilgrims that left from Mangaluru from Sunday to Thursday were flown to Madinah by Saudi-Arabian

Kasaragod, Aug 21: The third year civil engineering student of College of Engineering Thiruvanantha puram (CET) who was seriously injured after being mowed down by a jeep driven by her college mates who were part of Onam revellery inside the campus on Wednesday evening, succumbed to her injuries late on Thursday night. Following the mishap, Thasni Basheer, 20, a student hailing from Nilambur in

Mysuru, Aug 21, Nearly two weeks after?Saligrama police in Mysuru district arrested a 10-member gang of antique peddlers and recovered a 400-year-old Qur’an written on gold coated pages from them, it has emerged that the scripture could be the same copy of Qur’an that was stolen from a museum in Jammu and?Kashmir 12 years ago. IGP (Southern range)?B?K?Singh said, sleuths attached to the Central

Mangaluru, Aug 21: Dakshina Kannada Superintendent of Police S.D. Sharanappa has revealed that nearly 70 per cent of cases registered under the Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences Act in the coastal district are related to eloping of girls in the 17-18 age group, with their boyfriends. Speaking at a meeting here on Thursday to review cases under registered under the POCSO Act and

Srirangapatna, Aug 21: Two teenage brothers from Bengaluru drowned while immersing their grandfather’s ashes in the river at Cauvery Sangama, in Srirangapatna taluk, Mandya district, on Thursday. The deceased have been identified as Bharath (19) and Karthik (17), residents of Banashankari in Bengaluru. The duo entered the river with their uncle Manikanta. When their uncle slipped into the river

Bengaluru, Aug 21: State police chief Omprakash’s son, Karthikesh Omprakash, has business relations with the kin of N Narasimha Murthy, a clerk at the State police headquarters, who has been arrested by the SIT probing the Lokayukta corruption scam. Documents show that Murthy's brother-in-law Ashwath and Karthikesh are partners in a quarrying and crusher unit in Ramanagara. Incidentally, a