Karnataka

Bengaluru, Nov 29: A day after the parents of Insha Khaleel, a student of St Agnes College, Mangaluru, filed a Habeas Corpus petition, the eloped girl and her husband appeared before the Karnataka High Court on Friday. Bharatraj G (30), a bus conductor from Ira village in Bantwal taluk reached Bengaluru along with Insha Khaleel (19), a resident of Kotekar, who had gone missing on November 19

Udupi, Nov 29: Gold ornaments worth Rs. 5.2 lakh were stolen from a woman's purse when she had gone to a temple at Anegudde near Kundapur in Udupi district. Leelavati Raikar, a local resident, lost her ornaments when she had gone to the Vinayaka temple at around 1 p.m. on Wednesday. Police said that she had kept three gold chains, two gold bangles and a gold ring in a purse and kept it in a vanity

Mysuru: Nov 29: Dozens of students at the Government Higher Primary School at Kuppegala village in Mysuru district have skipped class while others have stopped eating mid-day meals to protest the appointment of a dalit cook. On Friday, 33 students stayed away from school while seven refrained from eating the food citing health reasons.?When the issue had previously cropped up in October, about 60

Bengaluru: Nov 29: The principal of Nirmala Rani Kannada Primary School in Malleshwaram here died after she slipped from the second floor of an under construction building on the school premises on Friday morning. According to the police, Sister Noella (58) fell while she was climbing the stairs to inspect the construction work. As she reached the second floor of the five-storeyed building, which

Mangaluru, Nov 28: The police department is keeping strict vigil on the groups resorting to moral policing and taking all possible steps to ensure that such incidents do not recur, Mangaluru City Police Commissioner R Hithendra has said. Patrolling had been intensified in various parts of the city and no one would be allowed to take law into their hands, he said taking part in an interaction

Mumbai, Nov 28: Twenty-three-year-old Arif Majeed from neighbouring Kalyan, who until now was believed by many to have been killed while fighting for ISIS in Syria, returned to Mumbai on Friday and is being interrogated by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) here. In May this year, four youths from Kalyan town -- Arif Majeed, Shaheen Tanki, Fahad Shaikh and Aman Tandel -- had left India to

Kathmandu, Nov 28: Even as the Hindutva outfits in India have launched a massive campaign calling for a ban on cattle slaughter and beef consumption, their counterparts in neighbouring Nepal on Friday started slaughtering lakhs of animals in the name of “ritual”. Ignoring calls by animal rights activists to halt what is known as the world's largest animal slaughtering ritual, thousands of sword

Bengaluru, Oct 28: Calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi a promise breaker', Karnataka chief minister Siddaramiah has predicted that Congress party would bounce back in 2019 general elections in India. In an interview, the CM said that the anti incumbency factor in recent general elections did the Congress in as it was in power for the past 10 years. “The Congress failed in the 2014 elections not

Bengaluru: Nov 28: To satisfy the angry party cadres who could not make it to the list of new heads of boards and corporations finalized by the chief minister recently, the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee has taken up the task of drawing a new list for the next term. Even though the term of office for those who will make it to the second list will start only 18 months from now when the tenure

Bengaluru, Nov 28: Despite widespread opposition from across the state and denial of permission from police for the Kiss of Love' event scheduled to be held in Bengaluru on Sunday, several prominent NGOs including Amnesty International, have upheld the “right to kiss” in public. The police must respect the constitutional rights to free expression and peaceful assembly, said the NGO in a statement