Karnataka

Udupi, Jun 26: In a bizarre incident, a middle aged Hindu priest from Udupi committed suicide by setting himself ablaze on Thursday inside a car in BDA Park, Kumbalgodu, on Mysuru Road in Bengaluru. Shivashankar Hebbar, a resident of Kengeri and a priest at Shani Mahatma temple on Mysuru Road is the deceased. Around noon the priest pulled his Maruti 800 into an empty space under a tree. Then he

Mangalore, Jun 26: The Food and Civil Supplies Department officials on Thursday seized around 50 LPG cylinders, allegedly stocked illegally in a building near Kudumbi Garden, off the Falnir Road in the city. The seized LPG cylinders include 40 domestic and 12 commercial cylinders. Four among them were empty. On receipt of complaints that LPG cylinders were being illegally sold, a team of personnel

Mudigere, Jun 26: While conducting an inspection of vehicles, Mudigere police seized a sum of Rs 1.33 crore being carried in two cars without relevant records from Mangaluru to Chikkamagaluru on Villupuram-Mangaluru national highway, on Thursday morning. Mudigere police had received information about transportation of a sum of Rs 3 crore hawala money. While checking the movement of cars at Hand

Kasaragod, Jun 26: Five members of a family from Badiadukka in Kasaragod district, who were reported missing were traced to Madikeri town in Karnataka on Thursday after nearly one-and-a-half months. The family members, including a woman, a 15-year-old girl and two children, were traced on Thursday morning to the residence of a distant relative of Prema, 26, one among the missing, at Madanad

Managluru, Jun 26: Karnataka State BJP chief President Pralhad Joshi has strongly defended scam tainted former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa and called Siddaramiah an arrogant chief minister. The BJP leader, who was in the city on Thursday, said the Congress government in the state has been following the politics of vengeance, unable to digest party’s onslaught against it. He said that filing of

Malegaon, Jun 26: For septuagenarian Nisar Ahmed, a scrap dealer who lost his 19-year-old son in the 2008 Malegaon blasts, the disclosures of Special Public Prosecutor Rohini Salian that she was told go “soft” in the case by the National Investigation Agency is further affirmation of his belief that justice will only be delivered by Allah. “I never had much faith that we would get justice in this

Manipal, Jun 26: The Udupi district administration has imposed a penalty of Rs 1,123 crore on Manipal University for misusing the land granted to it by the government. Deputy Commissioner Dr R Vishal told reporters here on Thursday that the university had used 109 acres of land for purposes other than it was sanctioned. He said there were complaints of misuse of land by the university and that the

New Delhi, Jun 25: CBI has examined former Union minister K H Muniyappa and an independent MLA R Varthur Prakash from Kolar in connection with its probe into the death of IAS officer D K Ravi on May 16. Congress leader Muniyappa and Prakash were examined yesterday in Bangalore by a CBI team to know the circumstances in which Ravi was working, sources said. They said the examination was necessary

Mangaluru, Jun 25: Heavy rains continued to lash coastal and Malnad regions of Karnataka on Thursday as the southwest monsoon is active over the region. Incessant rains and gusty winds damaged dozens of buildings and uprooted hundreds of trees across the twin districts of Dakshina Kananda and Udupi for past few days. On Wednesday Hariharapallathadka Government Higher Primary School building was

Mangaluru, Jun 25: Airports Authority of India (AAI) together with Cargo Service Center (CSC) commissioned the ‘Common User Domestic Cargo Terminal’ (CUDCT) by Mangaluru International Airport (MIA) by Airport Director J T Radhakrishnan in the airport premises at Kenjar on Thursday. Cargo Service Center Pvt Limited, Mumbai will handle the total domestic cargo operations on behalf of the AAI for a