Karnataka

Mangaluru, Jun 30: Suratkal police have been successful in arresting a total of six accused in connection with two separate cases of assault that occurred in Suratkal limits after noon on Sunday. In the case where four persons including a woman were assaulted at Tadambail near Suratkal on Sunday afternoon, police have arrested five Tadambail residents Mohan (32), Vinay alias Munna (20), Santhosh

Puttur, Jun 30: A woman suffering from suspected dengue fever died at a private hospital in Puttur in Monday evening. The husband of the deceased has alleged that his wife died due to the doctors' negligence. The deceased has been identified as Rajeshwari (28), wife of Raveesh, agriculturist from Mavinakatte in Devachalla in Sullia taluk. It is said that Rajeshwari had been suffering from fever

New Delhi, Jun 30: A day after reports quoted DV Sadananda Gowda as indicating that India could abolish Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code decriminalising 'unnatural sex', the Union Law Minister on Tuesday denied making any such remarks. “I never said that, I was misquoted,” Gowda told reporters today after he was asked for a reaction on his statement that Section 377 maybe scrapped. “The topic

Mumbai, Jun 30: Rohini Salian, who has quit as Special Public Prosecutor in the 2008 Malegaon blasts case after being pressurized to by National Investigation agency to go soft on saffron terrorists, has alleged that in two incidents the Central Government prosecutors prevented a Maharashtra counsel from arguing the case. Speaking to a TV channel, she alleged that in January this year, Central

New Delhi, Jun 30: While PM Modi's #SelfieWithDaughter appeal took Twitter by storm on Sunday, Nishrin Jafri's selfie with her father, late Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, gave a poignant twist to the entire campaign. Nishrin Jafri shared an image with her late father Ehsan along with a caption “#SelfieWithDaughter: This one will haunt him forever.” The post has gone viral on social media platforms, with

Mangaluru, Jun 30: The Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) has decided to develop eight main markets in its limits for the convenience of both traders and citizens, in two phases. Since several markets in the city limits are hard to pass through, the city corporation is preparing a project for construction of modernised markets in place of the existing ones. This developed project will be executed in

Mangaluru, Jun 30: In an attempt to disrupt the communal harmony, miscreants threw stones at a masjid and caused damage to its windows in the middle of the night in Kunjathur Padavu, near Manjeshwar on the outskirts of the city. It is learnt that stones were thrown at a masjid located on one side of the road leading to Padavu and managed to break a couple of windows in the structure in the wee

Mangaluru, Jun 30: Lakshadweep Administration will soon be establishing their office and other facilities in Mangaluru as the Dakshina Kannada Coastal Regulation Zone Management Committee has decided to grant it no objection certificate (NOC) At a meeting convened by deputy commissioner A B Ibrahim on Monday in the city, the Committee resolved to grant NOC for the construction of office

Manipal, Jun 30: The sprawling Manipal University campus has just got a special security team called ‘Quick Reaction Team’ (QRT). H.S. Ballal, Pro Chancellor of the University, launched the QRT on Monday on the campus. Sixty of the existing security men have been hand-picked to form the team, which will give more teeth to security on the campus. “The team has been put together to handle unforeseen

Kasaragod, Jun 30: In the wake of the mounting complaints against Khadamat Integrated Solutions Pvt Ltd (KISPL), the Kuwait government has returned the right for conducting medical screening of job aspirants leaving for Kuwait to the GCC Approved Medical Centres Association (GAMCA), according to K. Sreenivasan, President of the Manpower exporters Association. As a result, job aspirants to Kuwait