Karnataka

Bengaluru, Feb 13: The police are searching for popular Kannada film actor Pooja Gandhi after her car rammed into a two wheeler in the city on Thursday. Varsha Sahni, a homemaker, a 50-year-old homemaker, was riding the scooter near Yediyur Lake at Jayanagar when the car in which the actor was travelling rammed into it. The rider was critically injured in the accident. The victim was rushed to a

New Delhi, Feb 13: An unidentified group Friday ransacked a Christian school here, police said. Staff members of the Holy Child Auxilium school in south Delhi's Vasant Vihar told police that a few CCTV cameras installed in the school premises were damaged and the office of the principal was ransacked. "Some CCTV cameras were damaged and the office of the school principal was ransacked by some

Mangaluru, Feb 13: Students and local residents went on a snap protest after a private bus hit a college student at the private bus stand in Vitla in Bantwal taluk, on the outskirts of the city on Thursday. 18-year-old Vidyashri, a B. Com student was rushed to a hospital with severe injuries after the accident. Sources said that the Mangaluru bound private bus hit Vidyashri while going in the

Bengaluru, Feb 13: With the number of H1N1 cases increasing by the day, the government is battling a new challenge - shortage of drugs and testing kits. At a meeting convened by Health Minister U T Khader in the City on Thursday, representatives of private and government hospitals expressed a common concern. Oseltamivir, a drug used to treat patients with the flu, is available only in minimal

Anekal, Feb 13: At least 11 passengers were on Friday killed and over 60 injured, some of them critically, when an express train bound for Ernakulam in Kerala from Bengaluru derailed near Anekal, about 45 kms away here. As per railway officials, about nine bogies of the Bangalore City-Ernakulam Intercity Express were derailed after a boulder fell on the track. The train had left Bengaluru at 0615

Mysuru, Feb 13: Ending speculations, 22-year-old Yaduveer Gopal Raj Urs was on Thursday announced as the successor to the late scion of the Mysore royal family Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wadiyar. In keeping with the traditions of the royal family,?Yaduveer will be adopted in a day-long ceremony at the Amba Vilas Palace here on February 23. Following this, Yaduveer will be renamed “Yaduveer

Belagavi, Feb 13: One person was killed and two suffered grievous injuries after a shopping complex of the Belagavi City Corporation (BCC), constructed on a drain on Shivaji Road, collapsed early Thursday morning. The deceased has been identified as Vinayak Shivaji Patkar (45), a resident of Margaon in Goa. The injured are Balu Ningappa Sambhaji, a resident of Sadashiv Nagar, and Srikant Sadashiv

Mangaluru, Feb 12: The activists of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Mangaluru have exposed a water-meter tampering racket through a sting operation in the city with the help of media persons. The AAP activist Dr Deepak D'Souza, who is also a professor of forensic medicine, video captured tampering of a water meter by a Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) billing agent at a construction site at Bendur second

New Delhi, Feb 12: An open war today broke out in the Congress over its whitewash in the Delhi elections with senior leader Sheila Dikshit attacking Chief Ministerial candidate Ajay Maken and the party virtually asking her to shut up. Knives were out in the party over the debacle with Congress in charge of the party affairs in Delhi P C Chacko and DPCC chief Arvinder Singh Lovely strongly coming

Hubballi, Feb 12: The Sri Ram Sene chief Pramod Mutalik has termed the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Hindutva as ‘fake’. He told presspersons here on Wednesday that the convention of Hindus being held under the banner of Virat Hindu Samavesh in Hubballi should not become a “BJP convention.” He, however, added that the sene would support the event. Mr. Mutalik sought to know why BJP leaders who were