Karnataka

Kasaragod, Jul 14: A house was destroyed, few others damaged, and several trees uprooted as waves battered the coastal areas of the district. The surging waves swept away a 700-metre long stretch of the Kovval-Kappil beach road, near Uduma. Several residents at Nangi, near here, and the Kappil beach area are facing imminent threat of evacuation with sea water entering their premises. A major

Bengaluru, Jul 14: Farmers continue to end their lives with five of them committing suicide and two making attempt on their lives in the State on Monday. Siddesh (40) of Koonabevu village in Chitradurga taluk hung himself at his house. According to his family members he had borrowed about Rs five lakh from banks and an equal sum from private persons. Turuvanur police have registered a case

Bengaluru, Jul 14: The State government has begun cracking the whip against moneylenders who are fleecing borrowers following spurt in cases of farmers suicides in the State. As many as 86 cases have been booked against moneylenders in Mandya, Mysuru, Chamarajnagar and Hassan districts in the last one week under the Karnataka Moneylenders Act, 1961, and the Karnataka Prohibition of Charging

Bengaluru, Jul 14: Services in over 200 Primary Health Centres (PHC) are likely to be affected when Ayush (Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy) doctors go on an indefinite strike starting from July 20. As many as 589 doctors recruited under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) will stage a protest at Freedom Park here, seeking an increase in wages and regularisation of jobs. This

Udupi, Jul 14: Forest Department officials with the help of locals rescued a leopard which had entered an old shed at Pernankila village in Udupi district on Monday. The leopard was found sitting in an old shed near the house of a retired teacher Rangappa Nayak at Janata Colony in Pernankila at around 4 p.m. Mr. Nayak, who noticed it, quietly locked the door of the shed and contacted the officials

Mangaluru, Jul 13: Sheikh A P Aboobacker Ahmed Musliyar, the general secretary of the All India Sunni Jamiyyatul Ulema was accorded a warm welcome at Mangaluru International Airport on Monday. Ullal Dargah committee president Haji U S Hamza formally welcomed Musliar, who was recently appointed as India's representative for 'Rabiyathul Arabia Lissaqafathil Adabi wal Fikr', consisting of

Mangaluru, Jul 13: Demanding complete and effective ban on cow slaughter and stringent action against cattle traffickers in Karnataka saffron outfits on Monday staged a massive protest rally in Mangaluru under the leadership of Vishwa Hindu Parishad. Hundreds of activists belonging Bajrang Dal, Go Samrakshana Samiti and other likeminded organizations hailing from Dakshina Kannada, Udupi and

Mangaluru, Jul 13: The activists of Communist Party of India (Marxist) Democratic Youth Federation of India on Monday staged a protest demanding the Mangaluru City Corporation speed up the work on approach road to facilitate the commissioning of road under bridge (RuB) newly constructed in lieu of level crossing on Padil-Bajal road. Even though the Southern Railway has completed the RUB, its

Mangaluru, Jul 13: A tense atmosphere prevailed in Volalu, Bajattur and Golithottu villages near Uppinangady in Puttur taluk on Sunday following an attack by alleged Sangh Parivar activists on Muslim youths amidst a slaughterhouse raid by police in the vicinity. At least five persons sustained injuries in the clash at Golithottu village on Sunday evening even as the sleuths from jurisdictional

Mangaluru, Jul 13: The city police have arrested a 40-year-old man, notorious for ganja peddling in Mangaluru and seized huge quantity of banged drugs from him. The accused is Abdul Rahim, 40, resident of Hazar Manzil, Ansari Cross Road, Bunder, Mangaluru. According to police this Bander resident is kingpin of a racket that supplies ganja to students and youths in the city. Sleuths of City Crime