Karnataka

Kasaragod, Mar 5: A class 10 student was killed when the motorbike he was riding collided with a car at Edaneer, near Cherkala, some 10 km from here, on Wednesday, the police said. The accident occurred around noon. The motorbike which Muhammed Shafi, a student of Chattanchal higher secondary school, was riding was involved in a collision with the car, headed for Cherkala. The critically injured

Shivamogga, Mar 5: A “bomb-like” object found in an open space near a school here on Wednesday could just be an ice-cream ball, police have said, dismissing rumours that it contained explosives. The object became the centre of attention after some people alerted the police to a plastic ball partly tied with a Sellotape lying near Vikasa School in Vinobanagar around 10.30 am. A bomb detection and

Bengaluru, Mar 5: Wednesday’s pre-budget meeting of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah with various communities almost turned into a show of strength. With back-to-back pre-budget meetings with various castes and communities, Siddaramaiah began his day by having a meeting with dalit organisations and leaders. He later scheduled meetings with backward classes organisations and later minority community

New Delhi, Mar 4: Senior AAP leaders Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav, who were on a collision course with party Convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, were today voted out of Political Affairs Committee of the party, which has been rocked by dissidence in recent days. In a show-down in the party's 21-member National Executive (NE), supporters of Kejriwal voted out Yadav and Bhushan

Mangaluru, Mar 4: DYFI district president Muneer Katipalla said that the residents of the areas affected by the severe pollution levels caused due to the coke and sulphur units of Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL) located north of the Mangaluru city had filed a police complaint few days ago against the negligence and nuisance caused by the company. Speaking to reporters here on

Mangaluru, Mar 4: Senior Congress leader and communal harmony activist Ibrahim Kodichal has been appointed as the chairman of the prestigious Mangaluru Urban Development Authority. Speaking to Coastaldigest.com, Mr Kodichal said that he would formally assume the office on Friday. He said the MUDA is for the have-nots and he would see that MUDA should lend a helping hand to the poor. Kodichal, who

Sydney, Mar 4: Australia's High Court today backed the broadcasting watchdog's finding that an Australian radio station broke the law with a prank call to a British hospital taking care of the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge, paving the way for penalties. Two presenters at Sydney's 2Day FM called the London hospital in December 2012, pretending to be Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles. They were put

Mangaluru, Mar 4: After one-and-a-half years of tenure as the chief executive officer of Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat, IAS officer Tulasi Maddineni has been transferred. Tulasi Maddineni and P I Sreevidya She will be replaced by P I Sreevidya, another IAS officer, who was serving as the CEO of Kodagu ZP. Ms Sreevidya, who hails from Kottarakkara in Kerala, had secured 14th rank in the IAS

Mangaluru, Mar 4: A total of 11 teams from various colleges across the district participated in competitions such as Proprete-De-Master (Best Manager), Schoonmaak-De-Stake (Finance), Nairmalya and Kaaranji (Kannada), Tamizlik-De-Personnel (Human Resource) and Renhold-De-Mart (Marketing) at “Flames 2015” – a national-level undergraduate fest for management students organised by Centre for

London, Mar 4: India's IT hub Bangalore and Pakistan's financial capital Karachi have emerged as the world's cheapest cities to live in, according to a new global survey. The sub-continent as a whole offers the best value for money, with Mumbai, Chennai and New Delhi also being ranked on the lower end of the 'Worldwide Cost of Living Report 2015' compiled by the Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU).