Karnataka

Bengaluru, Mar 27: A woman resident of Bengaluru was allegedly verbally sexually harassed by an immigration officer at Delhi's IGI airport, after which the Home Ministry placed him under suspension. The immigration officer, Vinod Kumar, allegedly asked the woman some sexually explicit questions while checking the her passport and other travel documents after she reached the national capital from

Mangaluru, Mar 27: Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilisers H N Ananth Kumar said that the central government wished to open two units of Central Institute of Plastic Engineering and Technology (CIPET) in Karnataka, but there was no response from the state government in this regard. Addressing media persons at a press conference here on Friday, he said that the Centre was ready to set up the

New Delhi, Mar 27: In further escalation of infighting, AAP leaders Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav on Friday mounted an attack on party convenor Arvind Kejriwal, accusing him of stifling internal democracy and adopting unfair means to capture power. Addressing a press conference in New Delhi, the two leaders alleged that any issue raised by them was being projected as questioning Mr. Kejriwal

Mumbai, March 27: Recording his statement in the 2002 hit-and-run case, Bollywood star Salman Khan on Friday told a Mumbai court that he was neither drunk nor driving the car at the time of the accident. During his three-hour deposition, Mr. Khan faced 419 questions from Judge D.W. Deshpande in the case in which the actor is an accused. “Accident was not caused by me, sir,” Mr. Khan told the court

New Delhi, Mar 27: Veteran Parliamentarian and former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, founder member of BJP who is held in high esteem across the political spectrum, was today conferred with Bharat Ratna, the country's highest civilian award, by President Pranab Mukherjee. In a departure from protocol, Mukherjee drove to Vajpayee's residence at Krishna Memon marg in Lutyens' Delhi and

Mangaluru, Mar 27: An unidentified man was found dead under mysterious circumstances at a private property near PVS Circle in the city on Friday. Police sources said that no suspicious injury marks were found on the dead boy of middle aged man. No identity card was also found in his pockets. Local residents, who found the dead body on a narrow lane, informed the police, who rushed to the spot and

Mangaluru, Mar 27: Police averted a possible Bajrang Dal attack on a party in Mangaluru by briefly detaining a group of boys and girls who were partying at midnight at a house in the city. Around a dozen college students from Bengaluru had booked the top floor of a house at Maroli locality in the city for couple of days. It is learnt that the owner house named ‘Santhrupti’ located at Morali

Panaji, Mar 27: A Goan village has banned kissing in public, saying it causes irritation to residents. Reena Fernandes, deputy sarpanch of Salvador do Mundo, a picturesque village located a short distance from Panaji, told media persons on Thursday that the decision was taken by the village panchayat based on requests from locals. "There were a lot of unwanted things happening there (Salvador do

Mangaluru, Mar 27: Visually impaired Huffaz from all over India are exhibiting their skills of rendering the holy Quran in different styles in the national level competition for visually impaired in traditional style rendition of the Holy Qur'an held being held at Bhatkal in Uttara Kannada district. The two-day 'Hafiz Qiraat-e-Qur'an competition' being organized at Tanzeem ground, Nawayath colony

Mangaluru, Mar 27: In an apparent hate crime, a group of students from Sri Venkataramana Swamy (SVS) College, Bantwal, brutally assaulted the Muslim students of Thumbey Pre University College run by Mohiuddin Educational Trust, Thumbay, when they were returning after writing II PU examination on Thursday afternoon. Students of Thumbey College identified as Mubeen, Sadaqat, Akbar Siddiq, Sufaid