Karnataka

Mysuru, Aug 8: Mysuru MP Pratap Simha has urged Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to invite controversial novelist and Hindutva advocate SL Bhyrappa to inaugurate this year’s Dasara festivities atop Chamundi Hills. The MP’s suggestion has come at a time when Mr. Siddaramaiah will be chairing the maiden Dasara high-power committee meeting in Bengaluru on August 10. The meeting takes major decisions

Bengaluru: Aug 8: A man and his son, who together have around 15 criminal cases against them, figure in the first list of the candidates announced by the Janata Dal (Secular) for the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike elections. Former corporator Arif Pasha and his son Imran Pasha have been fielded by the JD(S) from Bapujinagar and Padarayanapura wards, respectively, in the Chamarajpet Assembly

Kasaragod, Aug 8: Over 30 persons were injured, some of them critically, when a Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) bus overturned and fell into a roadside ditch at Mayicha in Kasaragod on Friday. The mishap occurred around 7 a.m. when the bus proceeding to Kannur from Kanhangad tried to make way for a speeding truck from the opposite direction. The bus overturned and fell into a ditch

Mangaluru, Aug 8: The citizens of Mangaluru, who had stopped the four-laning of the Kankanady-Nandigudda road to save trees in the past, have once again come together under the banner of Citizens’ Forum for Mangalore Development and raised voice against MCC’s “surreptitious move” to widen the concretized road stretch. At a meeting held on Friday at MSW Seminar Hall, Roshni Nilaya, here in the

Udupi, Aug 7: Director-General and Inspector-General of Police Om Prakash said on Friday that underworld don Bannanje Raja, who was on the run for 18 years before he was detained in Morocco in February this year, will be extradited to Bengaluru in a couple of days. Mr. Om Prakash also announced a cash reward of Rs 10 lakh to the team that will go to Morocco and get him back to Bengaluru. Bannanje

Bangalore Aug 7: An Air India plane carrying 164 passengers onboard from Delhi suffered a tyre burst after landing at the Kempegowda International Airport here today. All the passengers, however, were deplaned safely, an Air India spokesperson said. “The plane, an Airbus 320, suffered a tyre burst immediately after it landed at the airport at 1621 hours apparently due to the hot climate in the

New Delhi, Aug 7: Mobile subscribers will be able to activate or deactivate internet service on their mobile phone by calling or sending an SMS to a new toll free number 1925 from next month onwards. The new directive from telecom regulator TRAI follows a large number of complaints from customers that mobile operators were keeping the process of deactivation very complex to earn extra revenue. The

Mangaluru, Aug 7: Students must have fairly good knowledge of current affairs and must be in regular touch with the mass media to enhance their employability, said Florine Roche, President of Media Alumni Association of Mangalgangothri (MAAM). Speaking at an inter departmental seminar on ‘Market Communication and Job Opportunities’ jointly organised by Department of Journalism, Data Processing

Mangaluru, Aug 7: The reference to human rights can found as early as in Vedas and Upanishads. But, unfortunately, these rights are not being implemented and has only confined to speeches, said Karnataka Law Commission Chairman and Karnataka State Human Rights Commission former chairman Justice S R Nayak. He was speaking after inaugurating a workshop on human rights ‘Dhwani-Pratidhwani’ organised

Mangaluru, Aug 7: One of the two youths, who were brutally attacked near Melkar town in Bantwal taluk by four assailants last night, succumbed to his injuries at a private hospital in the city on Friday. The deceased has been identified as Nasir (27), a resident of Melkar. Another youth, identified as Mohammed Mustafa, is undergoing treatment in the same hospital. Family sources said that the