Karnataka

Mangaluru, Apr 17: In a shocking incident, a group of moral police assaulted an elderly man and a middle aged woman for being together inside a car near Ullal beach, on the outskirts of the city. It is learnt that the 72-year-old retired bank employee and 30-year-old woman were pulled out of the car and assaulted by the miscreants on Thursday. Quoting eyewitnesses, police said that the two were

Bengaluru, Apr 17: The CBI registered a preliminary enquiry into the death of Karnataka IAS officer DK Ravi. CBI sources said the agency will examine all scenarios including any foul play into the mysterious death with a team of Special Crime Unit here and experts from CFSL likely to visit the crime scene soon. They said the agency has taken up the case registered by Karnataka Police which is

Mangaluru, Apr 17: Popular Front of India has termed the latest remarks of Shiv Sena on Muslim voting rights and forceful sterilisation of Muslims and Christians “outrageous and shameful to the nation”. Shivsena’s Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Raut’s latest demand to disfranchise Muslims for they are not using their voting rights the way Shivsena wanted them to is equal to violation of the Indian

Mangaluru, Apr 17: Air India Express has rescheduled seven flights between Mangaluru and Dubai and Mangaluru and Doha on Friday and Saturday. It is in view of grounding of an aircraft at Mumbai and the subsequent late availability of the aircraft, an Air India release said. Flight number IX 822 from Doha to Mangaluru, which was to arrive here on April 16 at 5.05 p.m., would arrive on April 17 at 7

Bengaluru, Apr 17: Normal life in the City may be hit on Saturday in view of the Karnataka bandh call given by various Kannada organisations to protest against Tamil Nadu’s opposition to the construction of a dam at Mekedatu in Ramanagara district. Essential goods and services such as milk, hospitals, medical shops and ambulances will be exempted. Several autorickshaw and taxi unions, government

Mangalore, Apr 17: A ten-day Sports Festival - 2015 will be organised under the aegis of Football Players Association, Mangaluru where floodlight matches will be played from Sunday onwards at Nehru Maidan Football Ground in the city. Announcing this at a press conference here on Thursday, chief organiser of the event D M Aslam said that the sports festival would be inaugurated with a blood

Bengaluru, Apr 17: The Bengaluru Urban district administration on Thursday launched a demolition drive around the Sarakki Lake near JP Nagar in Bengaluru South to rid the expansive water body of encroachments and reclaimed land worth Rs 2,000 crore. Of its 82 acres and 24 guntas, the lake has lost 38 acres and 14 guntas to illegal occupation over a period of about 30 years. Spread across Sarakki

Mangalore, Apr 16: A couple of days after the first cadaveric organ donation took place in Dakshina Kannada, Medical Director of A J Hospital and Research Centre Dr Prashanth Marla said that the transplantation that was made possible by creating a “green corridor” for the swift transportation of the harvested organ of an accident victim from Mangaluru to Bengaluru, had been successful and thanked

Panaji, Apr 16: A senior Karnataka minister has stoked a controversy by suggesting a retaliatory action against Goan IT professionals staying in Bengaluru if Goa government goes ahead with its drive to demolish illegal hutments at Baina beach in Vasco, which he said is aimed at "harassing" the Kannada settlers. "If you start harassing people from Karnataka in Goa then do not forget that there are

Udupi, Apr 16: Amidst ongoing preparations by political parties for impending Panchayat elections in Karnataka, Udupi district committee president of Janata Dal (Secular) has stepped down from the post. Addressing a press meet here on Thursday Deviprasad Shetty said that he decided to resign from the party post as he had failed to strengthen the party in the coastal district. “The number of active