Karnataka

Mangaluru, Jul 29: A youth from a village in Bantwal taluk has been charged of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl from the same village, who delivered a child in a government hospital. According to Superintendent of Police Sharanappa S.D., family members of the girl filed a complaint after she gave birth to the child in a government hospital on Tuesday morning. Mr. Sharanappa said the police

Mangaluru, Jul 29: A Sri Lankan national, who was reported missing from her college’s hostel in Moodbidri town in Dakshina Kannada district last week, has been traced at the Chennai International Airport on Tuesday. According to Moodbidri police, a complaint was filed on July 24 about Nimna Tarushi Sebastian, a hotel management student of a college in Moodbidri, leaving the hostel without

Mandya, Jul 29: The farmer suicides issue is bringing some Congress leaders out of political hibernation. Just weeks after former Union minister SM Krishna visited affected families of farmers in Mandya with cheques in hand, former MP and actor Ramya too made a surprise visit on Tuesday. She called on the families of farmers who had committed suicide. This is her first visit to the constituency

Bengaluru, Jul 29: More than 13,000 undergraduate engineering seats under the government quota are lying vacant in colleges across the State, at the end of the Common Entrance Test (CET) counselling. College managements foresee that more than 25,000 engineering seats are likely to go unclaimed this year. A look at the list of the unclaimed seats shows that in several institutions in Bengaluru

Mangaluru: Jul 28: The 19th annual Independence Cup football tournament organised by Dakshina Kannada District Football Association was inaugurated at Nehru Maidan here on Tuesday. The tourney will be held in four categories for 19 days. More than 200 teams are expected to play the tournament which is open for primary school, high school, pre-university and degree/engineering college students. In

Mangaluru, Jul 28: A 13-year-old boy sustained grievous injury after the bicycle he was hit by a city bus on the Bejai Kapikad Road on Tuesday morning. The Mangaluru Traffic West police said Amogh Shetty, a class seven student from Hathill, was cycling towards the KSRTC bus stand. Amogh Shetty was on his way to tuition. The police said the boy was hit by the bus that was going in the same

Mangaluru, Jul 28: Hundreds of students and lecturers from various colleges across the city paid homage to the former President of India and scientist Dr APJ Abdul Kalam and offered floral tribute to his portrait at Government Women’s PU College, Balmatta here on Tuesday, as the nation mourned the loss of a great personality with his unexpected demise in Shillong a day earlier. A day after Dr

Udupi, Jul 28: A youth has been arrested by police on charge of kidnapping a minor girl from a village in Kundapur taluk of Udupi district and sexually assaulting her for over three days in Sagara. The Kundapur police gave the name of the accused as Ravi (28), a resident of Jogibettu in Kavradi. He was picked up from Sagara, Shivamogga district, on Monday by a team of police from Kundapur. Police

New Delhi, Jul 28: A two-judge bench of the Supreme Court today delivered a split verdict on a plea by Yakub Abdul Razak Memon, the lone death convict in 1993 Mumbai blasts case, seeking stay of his scheduled execution on July 30 and referred the matter to the Chief Justice to take call on it. While Justice A R Dave dismissed his plea, Justice Kurian Joseph stayed the death warrant issued on April

Mangaluru, Jul 28: The former President of India APJ Abdul Kalam, who passed away on Monday, had made a place in the hearts of a vast amount of the population, including youngsters and elders alike with his easy demeanour, intelligence and humbleness. Known for his encouraging and inspiring words to students and aspiring individuals, his sudden demise on Monday left the nation deeply saddened