Karnataka

Chamarajanagar, Dec 4: At least 729 gold coins have been recovered by police from the toilet pit diggers at Haradanahalli village near Chamarajanagar. The local police on Wednesday confiscated another 636 antique gold coins from daily wage workers who had hidden them. On Monday, as many as 93 gold coins were recovered by the police following a complaint against the labourers. When interrogated

Mangaluru, Dec 4: The Dakshina Kannada district unit of BJP Mahila Morcha staged a Jail Bharo programme on Thursday by blocking the movement of traffic at A B Shetty circle in the city. Over 200 members of the Mahila Morcha were taken into custody by the police for blocking the movement of vehicles at the traffic junction as a mark of protest against the Congress government's inefficiency to

Mangaluru, Dec 4: The Karnataka state government has reportedly accorded approval for the acquisition of land required to extend the runway at Mangaluru International Airport. Revealing this to media persons at the sidelines of a programme, MIA director J T Radhakrishna said that the Dakshina Kannada district administration had earlier submitted a proposal to the State government to acquire 185

Mangaluru, Dec 4: Two women lost their lives in separate incidents of drowning in Dakshina Kannada district. Incidentally both women died after slipping into lakes. Nalinakshi (20) died after she reportedly slipped into a lake near her house in Uruvalu village, Belthangady taluk on Wednesday evening. She had been engaged and was to be married on January 18, sources said. A case has been registered

Bengaluru, Dec 4: Former minister, G Janardhana Reddy, his close associate Mehfooz Ali Khan, Kudligi MLA Nagendra and seven others have secured conditional bail in the third case pertaining to illegal export of iron ore from Belekeri port by a special CBI court. The case pertained to the second case registered against Dream Logistics, sources said. The CBI has registered five FIRs against

Kasaragod, Dec 4: The government has given administrative sanction for Rs.68.45 crore for the proposed Kasaragod medical college near Badiyadukka in the district. Work on the project is scheduled to begin in January. An announcement to this effect was made by N.A. Nellikkunnu, MLA, in a statement here. The decision comes amid widespread resentment over the delay in starting the work. Chief

Mangaluru, Dec 3: The bandh called by local activists as part of their protest against Phase III of the coke and sulphur plants at Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemical Limited evoked a good response on Wednesday at Jokatte village on the outskirts of the city. A large number of residents closed their shops near Jokatte railway station in the morning and took out a rally raising slogan against MRPL

Kundapur, Jul 4: The police arrested a physical education teacher on Tuesday on the charge of molesting a seven-and-a-half-year-old girl at a school in a village in Kundapur taluk in Udupi district. The accused has been identified as Shanthappa. According to the police, the teacher was arrested based on a complaint by the girl's mother that he had molested the girl. A case had been registered

Kundapur, Dec 3: Hundreds of people took to the streets in Udupi's coastal town of Gangaolli on Wednesday to exert pressure on the government and police department to nab the culprits responsible for last week's arson attack that destroyed a commercial complex owned by a Masjid. A large number of burqa-clad women also took part in the protest organized under the joint auspices of various local

Mangalore, Dec 3: Minister for Minor Irrigation Shivaraj Tangadagi announced that a new developmental plan had been sketched for the construction of Salt Water Exclusion Dams (SWED) at 77 existing vented dams in Dakshina Kannada, Udupi and Uttar Kannada districts mainly to help with irrigation during the summer months and also to check entry of seawater. Briefing mediapersons at a press conference