Karnataka

Puttur, Apr 16: In a misfortunate incident, a labourer died after a huge log of wood fell on him in a village in Puttur taluk on Wednesday evening. Ismail (58), son of Maheen Kunhi, resident of Yenmoor-Mucchila in Kalmadka village in Sullia taluk, is the deceased. Ismail had been logging timber on land belonging to Narayana Bhat in Kondalkana in Puttur taluk on Wednesday. After loading the timber

Agra, Apr 16: Unidentified persons on Thursday vandalised a church in one of India's most famous tourist destination Agra, police said, the latest incident in a series of attacks on minorities and minority-run institutions in the country. The incident comes barely weeks after a 71-year-old nun was raped in a West Bengal convent, a case that shook the nation and triggered widespread protests

Mangaluru, Apr 16: A month after a three-and-a-half-year-old nursery student studying in Mangalore One School in Thokkottu near here was sexually abused by a school van driver before dropping her home, parents of a few other students from the same school also have decided to withdraw their children from the school. In a memorandum submitted by a group of parents to the school management committee

Mangaluru, Apr 16: In a case of ATM card cloning, an MBBS student residing in Mangaluru has lost Rs 15,000 from his bank account in an online transaction done in London. Simone Sajjan a native of Bengaluru who is pursuing his medical course at the Father Muller Medical College here, received an SMS about Rs 14,993 being deducted from his account in a State Bank of India branch in Indiranagar in

New Delhi, Apr 16: BJP may have strongly endorsed Sangh Parivar's demand for a national law against religious conversions, but the central government is not competent to enact such a law, says the law ministry citing a Supreme Court ruling. According to the law ministry's opinion forwarded recently to the home ministry, the SC had in a 1977 ruling made it clear that 'anti-conversion law' falls

Puttur, Apr 16: A fire erupted at ICICI bank’s Puttur branch in Kallare on Wednesday. According to Niranjan, Deputy Branch Manager of the bank, a security guard noticed smoke coming out of the cabin of the branch manager around 8 a.m. He immediately called the bank personnel, who alerted the Fire and Emergency Services personnel, who doused the fire in about 30 minutes. Four air conditioners

Kasaragod, Apr 16: A tense atmosphere prevailed in parts of Kerala after a bomb attack on Thursday morning claimed a life at Panoor, a town which is known for violent clashes between CPM and Sangh Parivar. The victim of fresh bomb attack has been identified as Vinod (37), a CPM activist. It is learnt that suspected RSS miscreants hurled bomb at Vinod in the wee hours of Thursday when he was

Mysuru, Apr 16: Members of Siddaramaiah?Fans’ Association staged a flash protest in front of a?Janata Dal (Secular) leader’s house at Hinkal in the city on Wednesday, condemning a derogatory comment, posted by the latter on his Facebook account, against the chief minister. Vasu Gowda (with the FB account in the name of Deeksha Gowda) a local JD(S) leader had posted a photo of the chief minister

Bengaluru, Apr 15: Electricity consumers, especially industries, want the government to appoint a retired High Court judge as the chairman of the Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC). Reason: They are disappointed over non-implementation of several orders of the Commission. The committee formed by the government is yet to recommend a name for the chairman’s post. Several names of

New Delhi, Apr 15: Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh will lead the new party formed after the merger of the Janata Parivar comprising the SP, the Janata Dal (United), the Rashtriya Janata Dal, the Janata Dal (Secular), the Samajwadi Janata Party and the Indian National Lok Dal. A six-member committee including former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda, Lalu Prasad, Sharad Yadav and Ramgopal Yadav