Karnataka

Mangaluru, May 16: Three police constables in Mangaluru have finally been suspended over alleged assault on a Bengaluru-based engineer, who had chased a molester and helped the police to arrest him earlier this month. The suspended constables are Mahantesh, Hanuman Reddy and Paramesh. Commissioner of Mangaluru City Police S. Murugan ordered suspension of these three police constables. The action

Srinagar, May 16: In a rare instance, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court made a teacher write a brief exam in an open court to check his abilities but the examinee failed miserably, leading to a slew of directions to the state government for checking "tuck shops" in the education sector. The direction came yesterday when Justice Muzaffar Hussain Attar was hearing a petition challenging appointment

Panaji, May 16: The Hindu Janajagruti Samiti (HJS) has demanded the deportation of porn star-turned-Bollywood actress Sunny Leone and barring her future entry into India for displaying what it terms vulgarity on her website and insulting the dignity of women. The HJS lodged a first information report (FIR) with Sunil Shivarkar, head of Ramnagar police station in Dombivali in Thane, said HJS

Mangaluru, May 15: Corporator Dayananda Shetty for Panjimogaru ward, alleged that the management system of the Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) had completely declined, with civic issues and problems faced by people in city limits increasing by the day. Addressing a press conference here on Friday, he said that the corporators were also neglecting their work by blaming the MCC commissioner of not

Mangaluru, May 16: More than two months after a three-and-half-year old student was sexually abused on board a school van on the outskirts of the city, the Karnataka government has referred the case to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). The case was reported from Ullal Police Station limits on March 13. The driver of school van, Madhukar Shetty, who sexually abused the child before

Bengaluru, May 16: Unseasonal rains in the past two months has hit mango production and caused at least a 30 percent loss to mango growers in the State, according to Hopcoms officials. Horticulture department officials say that around 1,600 hectares of mango plantation has been affected due to hailstorm this year and over 4,000 hectares have been affected due to drought. Mango and the jackfruit

New Delhi, May 16: Petrol price was on Friday hiked by Rs 3.13 a litre and diesel by Rs 2.71 per litre, the second straight steep increase in rates this month. The hike, which comes on the back of Rs 3.96 per litre increase in petrol and Rs 2.37 a litre raise in diesel from May 1, will be effective from Friday midnight. Prices of petrol in Delhi will be Rs 66.29 a litre from tomorrow as against

Nirmal (Telangana), May 15: Targetting Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Friday said "acche din" have come only for Modi and few businessmen close to him. Addressing a public meeting at Wadial village near here, he said Modi has five to six businessmen friends and the entire country was being run for them. "It is a government of selected people. It is a

Mangaluru, May 15: Students pursuing Mechanical Engineering in Bearys Institute of Technology (BIT), Mangaluru have designed and built a prototype of a two-seater vehicle run with a motorbike engine and other parts of a bike. Four students got together to produce a two-seater car using parts from a Bajaj Pulsar motorbike such as 150cc bike engine along with additional spare parts. Speaking after

Bengaluru, May 15: A man who allegedly posted hundreds of obscene videos on the internet and WhatsApp, including three clips of women being raped, has been arrested by the CBI in Bengaluru. Sources tell nearly 400 pornographic or exploitative videos of women were found on different gadgets owned by the man, Kaushik Satyapal Kuonor, who is from Odisha but has been working as a driver in Bengaluru