Karnataka

Mysuru, July 21: A Hindu woman, who was allegedly sexually assaulted by Raghaveshwara Bharathi Swamiji, the pontiff of Ramachandrapura Mutt, has expressed concern over the attempt to destroy the evidences in the case. The sleuths of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), investigating the rape case against Raghaveshwara Bharathi, who is also known among saffron outfits as “saviour of cow”

Mangaluru, Jul 21: A school girl was washed away in flood waters near Uppinangady in Puttur taluk on Monday amidst heavy rains. 12-year-old Anisha, a student of a higher primary school was returning home at 34-Nekkilady village when the tragedy took place. At around 5 p.m. after finishing her classes she was on her way home and was crossing a small rivulet adjoining her house, sources said. Police

Mangaluru, Jul 20: A Class 8 girl of Capitanio High School went missing under suspicious circumstances after she left home saying that she would be going for tuition at Nagori near Pumpwell, in the city on Monday. Preliminary probe revealed that Chaitra (13), daughter of Rangappa Kambara and Mallava, boarded a city bus after offering pooja at a temple in Garodi. It is learnt that as per routine

Thiruvananthapuram, Jul 20: Kerala's upcoming fourth international airport at Kannur will begin commercial operations by the middle of 2016, a state minister said today. "Almost 60 per cent of the runway work is complete. Also, 38 per cent work on the terminal building is finished. The first aircraft will land there on December 31. The airport will commence commercial operations by the middle of

Chandigarh, Jul 20: Yoga guru Baba Ramdev is a school dropout and did not study beyond middle standard but he may soon get an honourary doctorate degree from Haryana Agriculture University if sources are to be believed. Though the HAU authorities refused to comment on the decision when Mail Today contacted them, sources said Ramdev will reach Hisar in Haryana on July 26, the day the agriculture

Bengaluru, Jul 20: Karnataka's nearly 600 Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy (AYUSH) doctors on Monday went on an indefinite strike here, demanding that their service should be regularised. "We have launched an indefinite strike until the government gives us in writing that our service will be regularised and salary revised...," said B.S. Madhukar, the secretary of Karnataka AYUSH

New Delhi, Jul 20: A Delhi Police constable has lodged a complaint of criminal defamation against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for allegedly using a derogatory word about cops during a recent interview. A constable posted at the Gobind Puri Police Station has filed a complaint against the chief minister, DCP (South-East) Mandeep Singh Randhawa said. "This is a non-cognisable offense," Randhawa

Udupi, Jul 20: A youth met watery grave, while another one was rescured after a speeding car plunged into a dam waters at Mattu village in Udupi district in the weekend night. Satish Shetty (35), a resident of Karkala, was driving his Maruti Omni car towards his in-laws’ house in Mattu when the tragedy took place. It is believed that Shettly lost control over his speeding vehicle due to slippery

Meerut, Jul 20: BJP MLA Sangeet Som, accused of making inflammatory speeches and uploading a fake video that sparked communal violence in Muzaffarnagar in 2013, has found himself in a fresh controversy. A complaint has been lodged with the Meerut district magistrate Pankaj Yadav against Sangeet Som for allegedly submitting fake degree documents in his affidavit to the Election Commission. The

Mangaluru, Jul 20: A Mangaluru lad has been elected as the President of the Society of UA Graduate Engineering Students (SAGE) at the University of Arizona, USA, for 2015-16. Ankush N Nayak, the new SAGE president, is also an alumnus of National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), Surathkal, and Expert PU College, Mangaluru. He is presently pursuing his MS degree in materials science and