Karnataka

Bengaluru, Jul 15: Housing Minister M H Ambareesh had embarrassing time on Tuesday, thanks to the Finance department. His department is yet to open account in the current financial year when it comes to spending budgetary grants, according to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah. However, Ambareesh contradicted it by saying that the Finance department had failed to collect information from his department

Bengaluru, Jul 15: Senior IPS officer and Chairman of Karnataka State Police Housing and Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd (KSPHIDC), Sushant Mahapatra, has made a complaint to Upa Lokayukta Justice Subhash B Adi about corruption and irregularities in the tender process at the corporation since 2012. Mahapatra said that two senior IPS officers — M N Reddi and Praveen Sood — were at the

Mangaluru, Jul 15: The police have cracked the robbery case at govt. employees’ quarters in the city. Sleuths from Kavoor police station arrested a 23-year-old man who is allegedly involved in a robbery at the quarters of a 58-year-old stenographer in the Commercial Tax Department on Saturday night. The arrested has been identified as Taranath (23) of Padavinangady. The police recovered Rs. 600

Kasaragod, Jul 14: Eight years after the brutal killing of Safiya, 14, a maid servant who was working in the house of a Goa-based public works contractor, a court here held guilty three persons, including a woman in the infamous murder case. One of the three persons held guilty by a local court in the Safiya murder case being escorted to the Vidyanagar police station in Kasaragod on Tuesday

Kasaragod, Jul 14: Two teenagers were crushed to death under the wheels of a bus as they fell down from their scooter after being hit by a pick-up van at Kunjathur near Manjeshwaram on Tuesday, police said. The tragedy occurred around 2.30 p.m. close to RTO check post; after the scooter in which Shihab, 18 and Finan, 19, had a head-on collision with another two-wheeler before hitting the pick-up

Udupi, Jul 14: The police arrested two men belonging to a community on the charge of teasing a 17-year-old girl belonging to another community at Koteshwar village under Kundapur police station on Monday. According to the police, the minor girl was standing at a bus stop at Koteshwar to go home after attending tuitions, when three men, two of who are aged about 19, allegedly teased her and one of

Mangaluru, Jul 14: In a heart-wrenching tragedy, three migrant labourers were buried alive while a fourth was shifted to a hospital in a critical condition after a large chunk of clay fell on them at a construction site at Farangipet in Bantwal taluk on the outskirts of the city on Tuesday. The victims have been identified as Milon, Thorikol and Maiminol, all natives of West Bengal. The landslide

Mangaluru, Jul 14: In spite of his physical disabilities, Mohammed Fardeen, a Class 9 student of St Agnes Special School, Bendore, Mangaluru, has a emerged as a successful footballer and secured a place in the Indian Football team for the international Special Olympics to be held in Los Angeles from July 25 to August 2. But, thanks to the lack of timely support from the government, the parents and

Bantwal, Jul 14: A group of alleged Bajrang Dal activists waylaid a cattle-laden vehicle near Vittla in in Bantwal taluk and assaulted three persons before handing them over to police. The jurisdictional Vittla police reached the spot and took three victims into custody and also seized their vehicle along with four heads of cattle. The victims have been identified as Moidu Kunchi (31), Abdul

Mumbai, July 14: The Central Bureau of Investigation Tuesday carried out searches at premises of social activist Teesta Setalvad and her organisation in connection with a case of alleged violation of Foreign Contribution Regulation Act in receiving funds from abroad without taking prior permission from the home ministry. The CBI sleuths carried out searches at four places in Mumbai at the premises