Karnataka

Bengaluru, Feb 15: Central Crime Branch sleuths have nabbed a 28-year-old from Noida in U.P. on the charge of duping unemployed youth by promising them jobs in IT companies. The accused, Vineet Kumar, operated online and changed SIM cards to escape detection. However, CCB sleuths tracked him down through his bank account. Abhishek Goel, DCP, said the accused took information from two online job

Bengaluru, Feb 15: In news that could bring cheer to engineering aspirants looking for highly subsidised seats, as many as three new government engineering colleges are on the anvil. Set to come up in Challakere (Chitradurga), Nargund (Gadag) and Talkal (Koppal), the colleges will add to the government seat pool if they get the nod from the All-India Council for Technical Education. These

Mangaluru, Feb 14: In an eye-opener incident for all the parents, a group of high-school boys were caught by police while they were consuming ganja after school hours in the city on Saturday evening. Police sources said that the students of Class IX and Class X were taken into custody from Valachil in the city while doing drugs. The four students had gathered near Valachil railway station and

Bengaluru, Feb 14: Twenty-six year old Ayesha Khan, who was studying MTech in a city college, wanted to settle down in Dubai. Her father M Z Khan, an officer with the Indian Air Force (IAF) and other members in her family were making preparations for her engagement. Friday morning’s train accident derailed all their plans. Waiting outside a mortuary at Victoria Hospital in the city to collect his

Kanpur, Feb 14: BJP's recent debacle in the Delhi polls and the future organisational strategy of the RSS are likely to be discussed in the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh's four-day meet 'Manthan' which will start on Sunday in Kanpur. "It's a pre-decided meeting in which all the active members of the RSS in eastern parts of Uttar Pradesh, right from Gorakhpur to Kanpur, will be participating," a RSS

New Delhi, Feb 14: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Saturday pledged to make Delhi the country's first corruption-free city and urged his party colleagues never to be arrogant. Addressing thousands at the Ramlila Maidan after taking oath as chief minister, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader pressed the need to make Delhi a full state. In his second stint as chief minister, the 46-year-old struck a

Mangaluru, Feb 14: Police have detained three miscreants of a Hindutva outfit for harassing park goers and trying to forcibly marry out couples in the city on Valentine's Day on February 14. The detained trouble-mongers have been identified as Rajesh Poojary, Dakshina Kannada district leader of Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha and Naveen and Suresh, two other members of the hardline Hindutva group

New Delhi, Feb 14: AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal today took oath as the eighth Chief Minister of Delhi at the historic Ramlila Ground here, exactly a year after he quit from the post on the Lokpal issue. Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung administered the oath of office and secrecy to Kejriwal and six other ministers as a large crowd cheered. Six ministers -- Manish Sisodia, Asim Ahmed Khan, Sandeep

Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 14: As much as 266 kg gold is missing from the famed Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple here, says former chief government auditor Vinod Rai in his audit report submitted to the apex court. The highlight of the report that has been obtained by media reveals that out of the 893 kg gold that was given out for various works, only 627 kg has been returned to the temple. Rai was asked

Mangaluru, Feb 14: A group of protesters in Mangaluru burned the effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to exhibit their anger over the anti-farmer policies of BJP-led union government. Dozens of activists took part in the protest organized jointly by the Karnataka Rajya Raita Sangha, Hasiru Sene and the Aam Aadmi Party on Friday in front of the office of Deputy