Karnataka

Mangaluru, Mar 18: Noted Tulu dramatist, director and actor K N Tailor is no more. The 75-year-old achiever died at a died at a private hospital here at about 9 a.m. on Wednesday. He was suffering from age related ailments for sometime. He has acted, produced and directed more than 10 Tulu cinemas and wrote scripts for about 20 Tulu dramas. Tulu art director Tamma Lakshmana told The Hindu that

Mangaluru, Mar 18: Two local youth who were arrested by police nearly seven years ago on suspicious terror charges and lodged in a jail in Mambai, were produced before a court in Mangaluru amidst tight security. Ahmed Bava alias Abubaker and Syed Mohammed Irshad, arrested in 2008, were brought to the city by Mumbai police on Tuesday and produced before III Additional Sessions Court. The duo were

Bengaluru, Mar 18: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah rejected demands for a CBI enquiry into the death of IAS officer DK Ravi. "It will be a CID probe. The police are perfectly capable of investigating the matter. There is no requirement for a CBI inquiry," Siddaramaiah said. The Assembly and Council witnessed heated debate over the issue with the government standing firm on a CID probe, while

Mangaluru, Mar 18: A case had been registered at Uppinangady police station against a student for posting a derogatory post against Prophet Mohammed (pbuh) on Facebook. Resident of Uppinangady Adesh Shetty, a student of Vivekananda College in Puttur, had posted a derogatory cartoon of Prophet Mohammed (pbuh) on his Facebook profile, where the Islamic religious figure was allegedly portrayed as a

Mangaluru, Mar 18: A youth was killed and six other suffered injuries in a ghastly road mishap occurred at Uppinangady about 50 km from here on Tuesday night. The deceased has been identified as Arfan, a resident of Karvel, near Uppinangady. Among the injured the condition of three is said to be critical. They have been admitted to a private hospital in Mangaluru. The serial accident involving a

Mangaluru, Mar 18: A Police Sub Inspector attached to the Mangaluru East Police has been placed under suspension for delaying to register complaint of a nun student who had been allegedly kidnapped and robbed on Monday in the city. Police Commissioner S. Murugan took the decision on Tuesday, a day after the incident took place. Jessy Abraham had rushed to the nearby Mangaluru East Police to

Tumakuru:?Mar 18: D?K?Ravi, the IAS officer who was found dead mysteriously at his house in Bengaluru on Monday was laid to rest with state honours at his native, Doddakoppalu village in Kunigal taluk on Tuesday. Thousands of people bid a tearful adieus to Ravi (35), the 2009-batch IAS?officer who was serving as Additional Commissioner (Enforcement) of Commercial Taxes Department. It was 7 pm by

Mysuru: Mar 18: In second such incident since February, a 14-year-old boy was severely injured when a mobile phone exploded in his hand at his house at Attiganahalli in Pandavapura taluk, Mandya district, on?March 14. A ?Y Rohit, son of Yogaraju, was playing a game on his elder brother’s Chinese-make cellphone ‘Forme’, while simultaneously charging it, when the equipment exploded. Rohit lost a

Bengaluru: Mar 18: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday said that he transferred popular IAS?officer D?K?Ravi from Kolar, following a request by the bureaucrat’s father-in-law Hanumantharayappa. Siddaramaiah said that Hanumantharayappa was a Congress party member. He had previously contested on a JD(S)?ticket in the 2008 elections to the Assembly from the Rajarajeshwari Nagar constituency

Bahraich, Mar 18: Firebrand Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Sadhvi Prachi stoked a fresh controversy saying those having more than two children should be barred from casting votes. Addressing a Hindu sammelan here, she said a law should be framed to scrap the voting rights irrespective of religion. She said those who do not chant "Bharat Mata ki Jai', "Vande Mataram", insult the national flag and