Karnataka

Mangaluru, May 17: Bearys Institute of Technology, Mangaluru, celebrated the graduation day of its third batch of students at its campus in Innoli on Saturday. Students attired in their formals and belonging to all the branches of engineering were felicitated with an annual memoire book and memento. Mr.K.Byrappa, Vice Chancellor of Mangalore University was the chief guest for the function. Prof

Kundapur, May 17: A transgender, who has been HIV-positive for last 15 years, has come forward to fight elections for Vandse Gram Panchayat in Kundapur taluk of Udupi district. “I have found that HIV-positive people do not get opportunities to come up in many sectors because of stigma and discrimination,” says the 42-year-old Sanjeeva, who will be filing his nomination papers for the gram

New Delhi, May 17: An Air India commander was reportedly arrested in Sharjah on Saturday for turning up drunk to operate a long-haul flight to Delhi via Kochi. Flight AI 934, with 120 passengers, finally took off at 4.35pm, more than three hours past the scheduled time, after AI managed to find a replacement to fly the Airbus A-320. "The commander was waiting in the security check queue. The staff

Bagalkot, May 17: Siddaramaiah-led Congress government has this habit of naming the schemes as Bhagya. Who is this Bhagya? Why is ruling Congress so affectionate towards bhagya? Is Bhagya Siddaramaiah’s old flame? This is how BJP MLA C T Ravi tried to explain the ruling Congress’ penchant for naming government schemes during the party workers meet ahead of gram panchayat elections here on Saturday

Mangaluru, May 17: 'Revival 2015 - Fine Tuning Talents', a one-day Islamic fest was organised by Girls Islamic Organisation, Dakshina Kannada at Hira Women's College near Thokkottu on the outskirts of the city on Saturday. Inaugurating the fest, P A College of Engineering lecturer Shahida said that the fest was highly relevant and necessary in today's modern world. "The fest is an attempt to bring

Udupi, May 16: B Janardhan Poojary, the former Union Minister and Congress leader, said on Saturday that Narendra Modi government had failed to keep up the promises made to the people since it took over a year ago. Addressing presspersons here, Mr. Poojary said that Prime Minister Modi was brought to power by the corporate sector. And so he was dancing to the tunes of this sector. Though farmers

Davangere, May 16: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday declared that he would make Karnataka free of BJP and communal forces. He said this at the Congress rally organised at Davangere to mark the completion of two years of his government. The rally, attended by scores of party workers atBapuji College ground, turned out to be a show of strength by the ruling Congress. Siddaramaiah shared dias

Mangaluru, May 16: Within two days after Laxmidas Jewellers in the city was burgled, Mangaluru police nabbed two north Indians and recovered valuables worth more than Rs. 10 lakh from them. Police Commissioner S. Murugan told presspersons here on Saturday that the accused, Mohammed Ifthikar Alam (22), a native of Rampur in Purnia district, Bihar, and Mohammed Sabeer (22), from Araria in Bihar

Mangaluru, May 16: Registering their protest against BJP-dominant Union Cabinet’s fresh amendments to child labour laws, the Dakshina Kannada district unit of Students Islamic Organization of India staged a demonstration in the city on Saturday. The agitators, who gathered in front of the office of Deputy Commissioner in the city, condemned the Union cabinet’s decision to give green signal for the

Cairo, May 16: Egypt’s first democratically-elected president, Mohammed Morsi, has been sentenced to death on charges of endangering national security by leaking state secrets to Qatar and escaping from prison during the country’s revolution against long-time dictator Hosni Mubarak in 2011. The sentence was issued on Saturday in the capital of Cairo by an Egyptian court that also sentenced over