Karnataka

Bengaluru, Mar 19: JD(S)?MLC?and former minister Basavaraj Horatti has openly charged an influential politician and Congress leader of trying to demoralize an IAS officer. Participating in a discussion on the unnatural death of D?K?Ravi, Horatti said he recently happened to meet Dharwad Deputy Commissioner?Rajendra Cholan in a train. “Cholan is a very upright, honest and dedicated officer. He was

Mangaluru, Mar 19: A high level investigation team has been formed to probe the sexual abuse of a three-and-half-year-old nursery student by the van driver of Mangaluru One School, said Health and Family Welfare Minister U T Khader. Mr Khader, in whose constituency the crime took place last week, expressed hope that the culprits will be punished. He said that the City Police Commissioner S Murugan

Bengaluru: Mar 19: Ravi’s father-in-law Hanumantharayappa on Wednesday said that Bangarpet MLA S N Narayanaswamy had pressured Ravi in support of Confident Group, a real estate firm accused of encroaching government land in Kolar district. Hanumantharayappa said that because of this pressure, he had requested Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to transfer Ravi to any post in Bengaluru. Hanumantharayappa

Mangaluru, Mar 19: Hundreds of Muslims in Uppinangady town, about 50 kilometers from here, staged a protest on Wednesday demanding the arrest of a college student, who for posting derogatory memes on Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) on Facebook. Most of the Muslim shops remained closed in the town on Wednesday in response to the bandh call given by the Uppinangay Nagarika Kriya Samiti, a forum of local

Mangaluru, Mar 19: A consumer court in Kasaragod has ordered the now defunct Kingfisher Airlines (KFA) to pay Rs.5 lakh as compensation to a passenger for offloading him midway en-route Dubai. A complaint lodged with the Consumer Dispute Redressal Forum by Abdul Salam Kallatra, an NRI businessman hailing from Melparamba in Kasaragod, said, he was forced to discontinue his journey in Bengaluru

Mangaluru, Mar 18: Former Governor of Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Goa, Margaret Alva was felicitated with the first ‘Mother Mary Aloysia AC Award for a Distinguished Agnesian’ instituted by St Agnes College, Mangaluru (Autonomous) instituted in honour of the founder of the educational institution. Delivering the first Mother Mary Aloysia A C Endowment Lecture – 2015 on ‘Women in Politics –

Mangaluru, Mar 18: Hundreds of people took part in a peaceful demonstration organized by the local unit of Sunni Students Federation (SSF) at Thokkottu junction near here on Wednesday to register their protest against the increasing violence against minorities in the region and sexual assault on an nursery student of Mangalore One School. Addressing the protesters SSF leader K M Sideeq Montogoli

Mangaluru, Mar 18: In a heartrending tragedy, a cyclist was crushed to death under the wheels of a speeding lorry at Padil in the city on Wednesday. Police have identified the deceased as Basavaraj (50), a resident of Pallakere, Bajal. He died on the spot when the driver lost control over his lorry and rammed into the bicycle near the overbridge at Padil. The victim Pasavaraj, who was working as a

Mangaluru, Mar 18: A female leopard, which strayed from the forest to a village, fell in to a well at Valavooru in Thumbe on the outskirts of the city, and later rescued by the officials of the Forest Department on Wednesday. The leopard accidentally fell into the open well a farmland belonging to one Lingappa Poojary in the early hours of Wednesday. According to local residents, the big cat must

Kuwait, Mar 18: The Indian Social Forum (ISF), a new platform of Indian community in Kuwait was formally launched on March 13 at Integrated Indian School, Abbasiya in the presence of A Saeed, national president, Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) among others. The event was witnessed by thousands of public. Abdusalam, Central president of ISF introduced the Forum and its activities. He said