Karnataka

Mangaluru, Dec 17: The District Kambala Samiti, Mangaluru, which has been fighting for the continuation of folk sport after the districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi banned it claiming it amounted to cruelty to animals, held a meeting in Moodbidri on Tuesday to discuss the ways to bring the conditions imposed into practice. As per the fresh high court orders, use of canes has been banned in the

Manipal, Dec 17: A woman was cheated of Rs 19,619 from her bank account by a fake call at Kudi village in Manipal police station limits in Udupi district. The police said Rajashree Nayak from Kudi received a call at around 2.40 p.m. on December 14 from a person who claimed that he was the manager of the Delhi branch of State Bank of India. He told her debit card had expired and sought some details

Mangaluru, Dec 17: A degree student the in city has accused an auto-rickshaw driver of sexually harassing her. The first year BCA student from a college off M.G. Road, in her complaint, identified the driver as Santosh. She said that driver Santosh harassed her when she was walking from her hostel to her college. The girl said she was being harassed since June to December 14 this year. The Barke

Islamabad, Dec 17: Children were the majority of the 148 people killed Tuesday in a Taliban attack on a school run by the Pakistani army in the northwestern city of Peshawar, near the border with Afghanistan. The fatalities included 132 students and nine school employees, the military's director of public information, Gen. Asim Bajwa, told a press conference. Another 122 students were wounded, as

Thirthahalli, Dec 17: A Town Panchayat member on Tuesday lodged a complaint with the town police alleging that he had received a threat call on December 15 night from a person claiming to be an aide of gangster Ravi Pujari. According to the police, the unidentified caller threatened to kill Town Panchayat member P C Satish Shetty and his family members if he did not withdraw within a week the

Mangaluru, Dec 16: On the occasion of Vijay Diwas which commemorates the victory of India over Pakistan in the 1971 Indo-Pak War, three veterans of the Indian Armed Forces were felicitated in a programme organised by Dakshina Kannada District Ex-Servicemen's Association, Mangaluru and the district unit of Lions Club International at Kadri Park here on Tuesday. Additional Deputy Commissioner

Belagavi, Dec 16: The Karnataka government will allow conducting of Kambala, traditional buffalo racing on slush tracks, in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts, but with certain riders in line with the High Court verdict, Minister for Law T B Jayachandra said here today. The court had quashed the Deputy Commissioner's ban on Kambala in the two districts with Justice S Abdul Nazeer passing an

Sullia, Dec 16: In an old case registered at Sullia police station in 2007, Sullia police have arrested a person on charges of falsely claiming to be a doctor and running a clinic in Gandhinagar under station limits few years ago. The police have arrested Mansoor Ali Khan in Gulbarga on charges of impersonating as a doctor in Gandhinagar. After a long gap, Sullia police pursued the case and

Bengaluru, Dec 16: Bengaluru has been put of high alert Monday following tweets on Twitter threatening a repeat of the hostage drama at a cafe in Australia's Sydney, Karnataka Home Minister K.J. George said. "A high alert has been sounded in Bengaluru after police received tweets on its Twitter account threatening to re-enact a Sydney-like hostage drama in the city," George told reporters at

Malpe, Dec 16: On Tuesday, as many as 19 child labourers were rescued by a rescue team which conducted an impromptu raid at the docks in Malpe. In a joint operation by the labour department, primary education department, Udupi District Child labour Yojana Sangha and child welfare department, the team of officials rescued 10 boys as well as nine girls working as helpers on fish trawlers. The