Karnataka

Mangaluru, Dec 1: Manipal School, Mangaluru managed in association with Pearson Schools, a part of the world's leading learning company Pearson, hosted Kidathon' the first ever Kids Marathon in Mangalore today in the presence of Chief Guest Vikas Puthran, Popular Athlete and Fitness expert. In an attempt to educate students about the importance of sports and fitness, Puthran awestruck the children

Chandigarh, Dec 1: In a rare show of courage, two college-going sisters thrashed three molestors inside a bus in Haryana's Rohtak town, even as passengers chose to look the other way. Both sisters confronted the accused and mustered enough courage to thrash them, with one of the girls even hitting the youths with her belt, for allegedly outraging their modesty. The entire incident, recorded by a

Mangaluru, Dec 1: Passengers had a miraculous escape after a sleeper bus travelling from Bengaluru to Manipal caught fire in the wee hours of Monday in Uppinangady police station limits. Daskshina Kannada Superintendent of Police Sharanappa said that fire erupted in the Seabird private bus, when it reached Sannampady near Uppinangady. There were 26 passengers on board and three had alighted at

Udupi, Nov 30: Chaos erupted in the general body meeting of Udupi City Municipal Council (CMC) leading to its adjournment in just 25 minutes here on Saturday, as the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) councillors stormed into the well of the House alleging corruption in the expenditure of the Udupi Utsava fest held last year. Raising the issue, Opposition Party Leader M R Pai alleged forgery

Kasaragod, Dec 1: The carcass of a four-year-old leopard was found in a plot of rubber trees at Palchuram thattu, near the hilly hamlet of Balal, some 45 km east of Kanhangad in Kasaragod. The nearly three-day-old carcass of the male leopard was spotted late Saturday night after foul smell emanated from the spot, which is infrequently visited as rubber milk extraction is yet to begin, Forest

Mangaluru, Nov 30: The officers of customs at Mangaluru International Airport seized two kilo grams of gold worth nearly Rs 53 lakh on Saturday. The seized gold was in the form of two separate bars each weighing one kilo gram. They were concealed separately in two mobile phone pouches and kept together in a polythene Dubai Duty Free carry bag. The bag containing gold was kept on the floor beneath

KolKata, Nov 30: BJP supremo Amit Shah took another dig at West Bengal Chief minister Mamata Banerjee by stopping mid-speech when the azan sounded from a nearby mosque. "Let us stop. We don't want to give Mamata any excuse," he said, taking a break for almost six minutes. Muslims form 27% of Bengal's voters, who had supported the Trinamool Congress in the last assembly elections in 2011. The BJP

Mumbai, Nov 30: To further secure its position as the world's aviation hub, Dubai Airports is building a whopping USD 32—billion greenfield airport at the upcoming Dubai World Central, 30 km off the present international airport which already is the second busiest in the world. The proposed new airport will become the world's largest aviation facility on completion and will have five runways which

Mangaluru, Nov 30: Aadheesh Avenue, an ultra-modern commercial complex by Land Trades, the pioneering name in the field of real estate in this region, was inaugurated on Sunday at 12 noon. Mangaluru South MLA J R Lobo, who formally inaugurated the complex located at MG Road, adjacent to Besant Women's College, said that that the new building contributed to enhance the beauty of the MG Road. He

Mangaluru, Nov 30: A miscreant was thrashed by a group of local people after a minor girl belonging to another community complained against him. The accused has been identified Rajesh Nayak (35), said to be an activist of a saffron outfit. He was handed over to the police after assault. The local residents caught the accused at Boliyar under the jurisdiction of Konaje police station on Saturday