Karnataka

Mysuru, Jun 11: Seetharam, a youth from Bihar who suffered severe injuries following the suspected mobile phone blast at Kadabahalli, in neighbouring?Mandya district, is underaged. His actual age was fabricated, only to avoid legal hassles, according to his father?Pundev. Pundev told Deccan Herald, “My son was 15 when he was offered job by the contractor (at Manjunatha Engineering and

Kozhikode, Jun 11: The Karripur International Airport in Kerala's Kozhikode was shut after a CISF jawan was killed and three others were injured in a clash between CISF personnel and Airport Authority of India officials. The trouble started when an Airport Authority of India (AAI) official entered a high security area of the airport around 9:30 pm and a CISF personnel on duty approached him to

Mangaluru, Jun 10: In an apparent attempt to create communal tensions in the sensitive areas of Dakshina Kananda district, trouble mongers have attacked two places of worship in two consecutive days at Kumpala near Ullal town. Jurisdictional Ullal police said that miscreants pelted stones at two Masjids at Kumpala on Monday and Tuesday causing damages to both the buildings. In the first incident

Karwar, Jun 10: An interim report of the Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, has attributed high incidence of cancer in villages in the vicinity of the Kaiga nuclear power plant to tobacco consumption by the people, noting that radiations from the facility has nothing to do with the cancer cases. Environmentalists had earlier blamed the radiations for the increasing cases of cancer in these villages

New Delhi, Jun 10: In more embarrassment for AAP, former Delhi Law Minister and party MLA Somnath Bharti was today served notices by Delhi Commission for Women after his wife filed a complaint with it alleging domestic violence. DCW chief Barkha Singh said Bharti has been asked to reply to the notices by June 26. In her complaint, the MLA's wife Lipika Bharti accused him of domestic violence and

Mangaluru, Jun 10: Karnataka Health and Family Welfare Minister U T Khader has urged the state government withdraw cases against dozens of innocents, who were booked in the aftermath of communal flare up in Ullal, Mogaveerapattana and surrounding areas in Mangaluru taluk in 2014. The minister’s demand came days after state cabinet decided to withdraw cases registered against dozens of Popular

Thiruvananthapuram, Jun 10: A teenaged SAI athlete tried to commit suicide early Wednesday here by slashing his wrist. He was taken to hospital from where he slipped away, police said. According to the police, the 18-year old athlete was brought to the casualty of the state-run Medical College hospital around 6.15 a.m. The doctors, after putting three stitches, referred the athlete to the

Mangaluru, Jun 10: A minor girl committed suicide at her residence in Kumpala Krishnanagar near Ullal on the outskirts of the city, allegedly after being harassed by a policeman, who reportedly blackmailed her after befriending her. In her death note, Jyoti, the 17-year-old foster daughter of Jayanti, a retired teacher, has held Praveen Salian, a policeman from Pandeshwar Police Station in

Mangaluru, Jun 10: In a shocking incident a 10-year-old girl was sexually assaulted by a youth at Ramkunja village in Puttur taluk. The accused Ramesh (30), a local resident was arrested by the police after the girl revealed the incident. According to a complaint Ramesh barged into the house, when the girl was alone. Her parents had gone for work. When the girl began to scream Ramesh closed her

Allahabad, Jun 10: All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) today appealed to Muslims in Uttar Pradesh to offer 'namaz' (prayers) on International Yoga Day on June 21, as a mark of protest against what it alleged an attempt of NDA to "promote saffron agenda in the name of Yoga". "We have no objection to the UN having decided to observe June 21 as International Yoga Day. "However, the BJP