Karnataka

London, Jul 17: An Indian-origin man wanted by Indian courts over a criminal case of dowry-related domestic violence has been traced to the UK, a media report said today. Ahmed Anees Hussain was tracked down by the 'Newham Recorder' which has passed on his details to the British police. The 37-year-old, however, claims he is innocent and intends to return to India and face the charges within the

New Delhi, Jul 17: An Air India aircraft, carrying former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh along with other passengers, flew from Amritsar to Delhi with one of its landing gears not retracting. The airline, however, said there was no harm to any passenger and that operations procedure as per checklist was followed by the crew before the take-off. The incident happened on July 12 when the flight, a

Kundapur, Jul 17: The Gangolli police in Kundapur taluk of Udupi district have registered a case against a person on the charge of threatening a farmer and charging exorbitant interest from him. According to the police, Lesly Rebello from Senapura village in Kundapur taluk had borrowed Rs. 5 lakh from Umesh Shetty on December 17, 2013, promising to return it in three months. But he could not repay

Bengaluru, Jul 17: Ballari city MLA Anil Lad has been remanded in police custody till July 20. He was produced before the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Special Court on Thursday, when his counsel C.V. Nagesh, moved a bail petition. However, the court remanded him in police custody and asked his counsel to file the bail petition on Monday. Anil Lad was arrested by the CBI on Wednesday after

Bengaluru: Jul 17: MLAs cutting across party lines on Thursday gave Health Minister U T Khader a dressing-down for not doing enough to check the rising dengue cases and shortage of medical doctors in the State. The legislators vented their ire on the minister for not doing enough to prevent the spread of dengue. While poor patients are queuing up in front of government hospitals for treatment

Kasaragod, Jul 16: A court here on Thursday awarded death sentence to a 52-year-old contractor for the murder of a minor girl who worked as housemaid at his residence in Goa in 2007. The crucial verdict comes eight years after 14-year-old maid servant Safiya was brutally killed by the convict. District Sessions Court judge M.J. Shakthidharan awarded capital punishment to prime accused K.C. Hamza

Mangaluru, Jul 16: The Shawwal moon has not been sighted in coastal Karnataka and neighboring district, thus Eid-ul-Fitr will fall on Saturday, July 18, according to prominent Khazis of Mangaluru, Udupi and Ullal. With this Muslims in coastal Karnataka and Kerala will complete their 30th day of fasting on Friday. The blessed month of Ramadan had commenced in this region on June 18. This Ramadan is

Mangaluru, Jul 16: An agency, which had been entrusted with the work of remitting cash in ATMs of State Bank of India, has accused its local manager and 18 employees of causing a loss of Rs. 4.14 crore by not remitting the complete mount in the ATMs in the district. A complaint field by a representative of Castech with the Mangaluru South Police, said the agency had been entrusted with the work of

Bengaluru, July 16: An expert committee which probed the deaths of four newborns at Kempegowda Institute for Medical Sciences (KIMS), has found several lapses in the maintenance of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), revealed UT Khader, the minister for health and family welfare. Speaking to media persons here on Thursday he said: “With the postmortem not having been conducted, it might be

Bengaluru, Jul 16: There has not been a single invention from India in the last 60 years that became a household name globally, nor any idea that led to "earth shaking" invention to "delight global citizens", IT czar NR Narayana Murthy said today. "Our youngsters have not done much impactful research work despite being equal to their counterparts in intellect and energy in Western universities,"