Karnataka

Ahmedabad, Nov 25: Taking the Gujarat administration by surprise, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's wife Jashodaben has sought details through a Right to Information application about the security arrangements that she and other family members of the PM are entitled to as per protocol. Jashodaben Modi turned up at the office of Mehsana district superintendent of police on Monday and submitted a RTI

Mangaluru, Nov 25: A Canada-based NRI has lost Rs 1.13 crore from his account with a bank in Manipal after hackers made their way into his email account and got the money transferred to two of their accounts overseas, according to a complaint lodged with the police. The fraud was committed after hackers made their way into the NRI's personal email ID and sent mails to the Manipal Branch of

Mangaluru, Nov 25: A young migrant worker from Bihar was killed and 19 others were injured, five of them seriously, in a collision involving a bus and a van at Pullur, in Kasarogd district on Monday. Sonu (22) hailing from Bihar succumbed to his injuries at the Government Wenlock Hospital in Mangaluru, the police said. Five workers, all from Bihar, who were critically injured, are being treated at

Bengaluru: Nov 25: The central division of the Bengaluru city police has registered a case against Sri Rama Sene chief Pramod Muthalik and other extremists under Section 107 of the Criminal Procedure Code for threatening to take law into their hands during upcoming “Kiss of Love” event in the city. According to Section 107, when an executive magistrate receives information that any person is

Bengaluru: Nov 25: A former chief test pilot and project director of Tejas light combat aircraft was found murdered inside his duplex villa at a gated community at Huskur Gate, off Hosur Road, on the outskirts of the City on Monday morning. Parvez Hamilton Khokhar, 70, a retired air commodore with the Aircraft and Systems Testing Establishment, was found dead in his bedroom. He was working for

New Delhi, Nov 24: Muslims, Dalits and Adivasis — three of the most vulnerable sections of Indian society — make up more than half of country's prison population, according to the latest data released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) on Prison Statistics India for the year 2013. Although the proportion of these three communities in India adds up to about 39%, their share amongst

Mangaluru, Nov 24: Health and Family Welfare Minister U T Khader has deputy commissioners have been authorized to appoint retired specialist doctors aged between 60 and 65 years on contract basis in government hospitals in their jurisdictions in Karnataka. Speaking to media persons in the city on Monday the minister said that the decision intents address the shortage of specialist doctors. “Many

Mangaluru, Nov 24: Veteran Congress leader and former union minister B Janardhana Poojary has said that excess activism like organizing kiss fest' in protest against moral policing may lead to greater problems in future. The remarks came after Bengaluru city police commissioner M N Reddi warned that no individual or organisation opposing the Kiss of Love event – proposed to be held on November 30

Muzaffarnagar, Nov 24: One more accused has been arrested in connection with gang-rape cases during the communal riots here last year, raising the number of arrested accused to 19, police said on Monday. The accused identified as Subhash was arrested yesterday and court has initiated attachment proceedings against him, they said. The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the riots had found the

Bengaluru, Nov 24: After 18 months, boards and corporations in the state finally got chairpersons on Monday with the Siddaramaiah government appointing Congress leaders and cadres to these statutory bodies. The appointments had been hanging fire due to differences between the chief minister and KPCC president G Parameshwara over names for the posts. There was no formal release of the list of names