Karnataka

Mangaluru, Dec 18: As many as 25 families living in the forested area in Kuthlur in Belthangady taluk in Dakshina Kannada urged the district administration to provide them with basic facilities where they lived. Malekudiya families living in the Alamba and Panjalu areas of Kuthlur village on Wednesday requested the district administration that they should be provided with basic facilities such as

Hyderabad, Dec 18: The Hyderabad High Court today granted bail to the former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy in the bribe-for-bail case. The mining baron will however continue to be lodged in the jail as presently he is in a judicial custody at Bangalore in connection with the illegal mining case involving his Obulapuram Mining Company. Reddy was granted bail in the case registered by the

Peshawar, Dec 18: "We have killed all the children in the auditorium...What do we do now?" one of the Taliban attackers told his handler after shooting indiscriminately at the students in the main hall of the army-run school from where more than 100 bodies were recovered. "Wait for the army people, kill them before blowing yourself," his handler ordered, instructing the suicide attackers who were

Mangaluru, Dec 18: œWhen we come across accomplished persons, we look at the finished product and not the incessant effort and hard work behind it. We think that genius is in the genetics, but geniuses are not born but made,  said rector of St Aloysius Institutions Fr Denzil Lobo. Delivering the presidential address at the inaugural ceremony of the national level Aloysian Fest 2014-15 hosted by

Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 18: CPI-M's youth wing, Democratic Youth Federation of India, has launched a matrimonial website exclusively to promote 'secular' marriages. The website, "www.secularmarriage.com," will function as a unique platform for liberal-minded people to find their partners irrespective of caste, creed and religion, DYFI sources said. The site, launched by celebrity couple--director

Chhattarpur (MP), Dec 18: A 14-month-old boy fell into a deep borewell and was trapped at a depth of 18-feet inside it at a village in the district. A rescue operation has been launched by the district officials to save the child - Krishna Lodhi - who accidentally fell into the 100-feet dry borewell at Lidhora village under Bhagwa police station limits last evening while playing in an agriculture

Kundapur, Dec 18: Around 25 students of HMMS English Medium School, Byndoor sustained injuries when the school bus they were travelling in fell on its side at Uthinane near Byndoor in Udupi district on Thursday. The tragedy took place at around 8:30 a.m. when the bus was carrying students from Bhatkal. Among the injured, the condition of the three students is said to be critical. They have been

Puttur, Dec 18: In a bizarre incident, a youth has been booked for allegedly hitting a four-year-old girl for not eating food in Puttur taluk of Dakshina Kannada district. The accused has been identified as Moinuddin, a 20-year-old resident of Bellare in Puttur taluk. In a complaint filed with the Sullia police, Manikanta said he saw Moinuddin hitting the girl for refusing to eat food in latter's

Belagavi, Dec 18: The Home department has booked four staffers of a private Kannada television channel under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act 2012, Home Minister K J George has said. The staffers of TV9 have been accused of violating Section 23(2) of the Pocso Act, which says the identity of a victim of sexual offence should not be revealed. The television channel had

Mandya, Dec 18: Tension prevailed for a while at the government hospital, as there was no ambulance services available to shift a pregnant woman, who had attempted to commit suicide, in Pandavapura of Mandya district on Wednesday. Geetha, 33, wife of Dhananjaya, had tried to commit suicide by setting herself ablaze. Resident of Hirodebeedi, Geetha in an effort to threaten her husband had attempted