Karnataka

New Delhi, Aug 2: Six cities from Karnataka including Mangaluru, Belagavi, Shivamogga, Tumakuru, Davanagere and Hubballi-Dharwad featured among the 100 Smart City. Bengaluru and Mysuru failed to make it to the list of 100 cities nominated from various states for the Smart City project and submitted to the Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) In fact, all six cities got the highest scores in the

New Delhi, Aug 2: A deputy registrar in the Supreme Court has quit, citing his differences with the court’s verdict rejecting the last-ditch plea of Yakub Memon, the lone death row convict in the March 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, against his death warrant. Anup Surendranath, who has been working in the SC as deputy registrar (research) on contract basis, in his resignation letter, had mentioned

Bengaluru, Aug 2: More than 5,000 people from Karnataka will be going to Haj this year and special flight arrangements have been made for the pilgrims, said Infrastructure Development, Information and Haj Minister Roshan Baig. The Karnataka State Haj Committee vaccinated individuals going to Haj and gave them suitcases to travel at an event organised here on Saturday. The first scheduled flight is

Ottawa (US), Aug 1: Traveling at speeds of up to 240 mph, 164 skydivers flying head-down built the largest ever vertical skydiving formation over central Illinois, smashing the previous record. It took the international team 13 attempts to beat the 2012 mark set by 138 skydivers. The formation, resembling a giant flower, floated above Skydive Chicago in Ottawa for a matter of seconds before the

Mangaluru, Aug 1: Mangaluru Bar Association has demanded the arrest of inspector T D Nagaraj of Mangaluru East Police Station, who was suspended on charges of assaulting advocate Uttam Rai. Speaking at a press conference here on Saturday, president of the association S P Chengappa said that if the inspector was not arrested within a period of three days, there would be a statewide protests by

Mangaluru, Aug 1: Aishwarya Mallikarjun has won the Benedryl Big Golden voice Mangalore regional round held on Saturday at Roshni Nilayala School of Social Work in the city. She has been nominated for the next round to be held in Mumbai. Lasya Updhaya became the runner up. In its third year, Big Golden voice is a unique, first-of-its-kind radio based singing talent hunt conducted across 92.7 BIG

Mangaluru, Aug 1: Protesting against what they call the “inefficient” administration of Congress government in the state and their alleged failure to solve the major problems of citizens in Mangaluru, CPI(M) will organise a mass sit-in protest by the citizens in front of Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) building at Lalbagh here on September 14. Announcing this at a press conference here on

Mangaluru, Aug 1: The investigations in software engineer Prabha Shetty murder case in Australia is expected to be widened to India with detectives from Strike Force Marcoala, formed by State Crime Command's Homicide Squad, due to travel to her home town near Mangaluru, amid community plans to honour the slain woman with a service close to her birthday. Ritchie Sim, in inspector of Australia

Mathura, Aug 1: Following the advice of a Hindu tantric, a man raped and killed four minor girls and was on look to rape and murder three more girls! This chilling revelation came after a man identified as Sonu was arrested by the police earlier this week. Sonu reportedly told police that the tantrik had told him that to cure his wife he needed to sexually assault and kill seven minor girls in all

Mumbai, Aug 1: Samajwadi Party leader M.F. Ghosi demanded that Raheen, the widow of hanged terrorist Yakub Memon, be nominated to the Rajya Sabha - leading to his being sacked as the Mumbai unit's vice president. A Samajwadi Party spokesperson said state and city unit chief Abu Asim Azmi took the decision barely a day after Ghosi made the demand in a letter to party president Mulayam Singh Yadav