Karnataka

Paris, Apr 12: Indian students in France can now extend their stay in this country beyond completion of their studies as can French students in India. This is possible under an agreement signed between the two sides during the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi which concluded today. The two sides agreed on the new scheme to allow Indian students in France and French students in India to stay

New Delhi, Apr 12: With the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act – MMDRA – in place, the Karnataka government may have to auction the eight iron ore mining leases, which were renewed by the State government in January this year. According to the MMDR Act, 8(A) (5) (6), the maximum period that a mining lease can be held is for 50 years. On the expiry of the lease period, the lease

Bengaluru, Apr 12: A life convict hoodwinked the cops and managed to flee the high-security Parappana Agrahara Central prison on Friday evening. According to the police, Manjunath, 33, sentenced to life in prison for committing a murder in Chitradurga, was serving his term in the prison for the past six years. On Thursday morning, he requested the prison officials to allow him to meet a few

Mangaluru, Apr 12: The police raided an apartment in the city on Saturday and arrested seven persons for allegedly involving in a prostitution racket. The arrested include three girls, a female pimp and three men. The arrested men have been identified as Praveen from Bikarnakatte in Mangaluru, Prakash from Attavar in Mangaluru and Manjunath from Gadag district. Among the girls, one is from

Dhaka, Apr 12: Bangladesh's top Jamaat-e-Islami leader Muhammad Quamaruzzaman was hanged tonight on charge of war crimes and mass killing during country's 1971 independence war against Pakistan, days after he lost his final bid to overturn his death sentence. He was hanged on Saturday at 10:01 p.m. local time, jail officials were quoted by local media reports as saying. Quamaruzzaman, the third

Dubai, Apr 12: Karnataka Health and Family Welfare Minister U T Khader paid a visit to ‘Kannada Paatha Shaale Dubai’, a Kannada language school started by ‘Kannada Mitraru UAE’ in Dubai in association with JSS Education Foundation Dubai. Kannada Mitraru UAE is an organization fully dedicated to Kannada literacy of non-resident Kannadigas in UAE Addressing the gathering after interacting with

Mangaluru, Apr 11: The Karnataka Amateur Athletics Association has planned to install permanent floodlights with the help of government at Mangala Stadium in the city. However, the impending 19th Federation Cup senior national athletics championship is expected to be held at the same stadium under temporary floodlights. Inspecting the venue and preparations for the Federation Cup that gets under

Udupi, Apr 11: Unidentified miscreants barged into a house and murdered a pregnant woman after allegedly gang raping her at Gopady village near Koteshwar in Kundapur taluk of Udupi district on Saturday. The victim, identified as Indira Mogaveera (30), wife of Anand Mogaveera, was six months’ pregnant. She is also the mother of a two-and-a-half-year-old son. The incident occurred at around 4:00 p.m

New Delhi, Apr 11: Dalit leader and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from North-West Delhi, Udit Raj had vehemently raised the contentious ‘ghar wapsi’ campaign at the recently concluded party’s National Executive meet in Bengaluru. He had said that the conversion program had spoiled India’s image on the world stage. According to a report published in The Indian Express, the BJP leader had

Malkangiri (Odisha), Apr 11: Unable to purchase medicine for his sick wife, a tribal man allegedly sold his two-month-old baby boy to a woman for Rs 700 in Malkangiri district of Odisha. Sukura Muduli and his wife Dhumusi Muduli of Chittapalli-2 of Korkunda block had handed over their son to an ASHA (Accredited social health activist) worker of nearby Chittapalli-3 village in February this year