Karnataka

New Delhi, Apr 4: Days after he and Yogendra Yadav were expelled from the party's top decision-making fora, rebel AAP leader Prashant Bhushan today fired a fresh salvo at Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal accusing him of turning AAP a "high command-oriented" party and betraying trust of lakhs of supporters. In an open letter to Kejriwal, Bhushan said "God and history will not forgive what you

Haveri, Apr 4: A police constable shot himself dead in the Haveri district administration building on Friday morning. According to the police, Somu Gollara, 38, a resident of Savanooru taluk’s Kunimallahalli village was a constable in the Armed Reserve Police. He is survived by wife and two children. “Last night he ate at home and left for work. The morning brought the news of his death. He was

Karwar, Apr 4: “We were afraid to venture out of our houses as the streets in Aden were turned into war zone. The deafening sound of the gunshots and the explosions were heard day in day out. We had lost all our hopes of returning to India. With some timely help from Indian government and the media we are back home,” a relieved Mohammad Yunus Shabandri, who returned to his hometown Bhatkal from

Mangaluru, Apr 3: Nearly three after he survived a suicide attempt, a youth from Kalmady in Udupi district, ended life in Mangaluru on Friday. The deceased has been identified as Alwyn Fernandes (27), son of late Joseph Fernandes and the late Theresa Fernandes. He was found hanging from a window of the bathroom at a rehabilitation centre at Capitanio in the city, police sources said. The reason

Candolim(Goa), Apr 3: Union Education Minister Smriti Irani was trying on clothes at an outlet of the popular Fabindia in Goa today, when she allegedly spotted a camera positioned to record inside the small room. Footage from the camera, including that of the minister, was found recorded on a computer at the store, alleged a Goa legislator Micheal Lobo, who lodged a first information report or FIR

Mangaluru, Apr 3: Well-known businessman and founder of city based Komals Group of Concerns, Vitob S Nagvekar died on Friday at his residence in Ladyhill, Mangaluru. He was 86. Nagvekar was a popular figure in Mangaluru due to his philanthropic nature and social worker. He was the President of Kanara Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Mangaluru in the past. He was chief editor of Guruvani, a

New Delhi, Apr 3: Twelve-year-old Maryam Siddiqui, a class VI student from Mumbai has won the first position at the 'Gita Champions League' contest, defeating 3,000 participants. The written competition based on the Bhagwad Gita was organized by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Iskcon) in January. A student of Cosmopolitan High School, Mira Road, Maryam had always been

Mangaluru, Apr 3: At least eight persons were injured, a couple of them critically, after a lorry rammed into a passenger bus at Honnakatte, Kulai on the outskirts of the city on Friday morning. The accident occurred at around 6: 45 a.m. when the bus plying from Kinnigoli to Mangaluru reached Honnakatte. It is learnt that when the driver stopped the bus at Honnakatte to pick up passengers, the

Udupi, Apr 3: Pejawar Mutt chief pontiff Vishvesha Teertha Swami has sent a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi asking him to reconsider the ordinance on land acquisition. The seer told presspersons on Thursday that acquisition of farmers’ lands should be done only when absolutely necessary for public good and not for commercial interests. He added that the mutt had been in favour of land

Bengaluru, Apr 3: A move by the Bharatiya Janata Party to put up a counter at the Kempegowda International Airport, here, apparently to welcome guests arriving here to attend the national office-bearers meeting and the subsequent national executive from Friday has drawn flak. Former Minister B.K. Chandrashekar, who arrived from Hyderabad at the Airport on Thursday evening, said he was