Karnataka

Mangaluru, Nov 21: This year there will be no Kambala (slush track buffalo race) this year in Tulu Nadu. The recent Supreme Court order banning all events construed as cruelty to animals has put an end to the annual slush race of buffaloes in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts. The Department of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Services on Friday formally banned kambala' in Dakshina Kannada. This

Mangaluru, Nov 21: Stringent action will be initiated against government officials for misusing the government funds, warned Lokayukta Justice Y Bhaskar Rao. In the public grievances meeting at Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat hall here on Friday, he said that withdrawing funds by submitting a few photos of works undertaken and using it for personal benefit will not be tolerated. Ariyadka gram

Mangaluru, Nov 21: The Airports Authority of India has requested the Union Health ministry to set up a thermal scanner equipment to check the deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) at the Mangaluru International Airport. A team of Directorate General of Civil Aviation from Hyderabad and Bengaluru had visited the airport to take stock of measures to detect EVD and the team was fully satisfied, MIA

Mangaluru, Nov 21: A youth has been arrested by Konaje police on Friday on charge of molesting a 19-year-old student, whose family lives in United States of America. The accused has been identified as Aboobakar Siddeeq (35), a resident of Madani Nagar near Thokkottu in Mangaluru taluk. The girl, who is pursuing second year B.Sc (Nursing) at a private college was allegedly molested by the accused

Mangaluru, Nov 21: The officers of Customs at Mangaluru International Airport have busted another modus operandi of gold smuggling and in two separate cases, seized gold weighing 699.900 grams totally valued at over Rs 18 lakh. In the first case, the officers seized gold in the form of two numbers of 10 tola gold bars, totally weighing 233.300 grams and valued at Rs.6,20,578. The gold bars were

Bengaluru, Nov 21: In the wake of Karnataka High Court's direction to the state government to act on big encroachers of government land and to clear encroachments of over five acres, Revenue Minister V Srinivas Prasad today said the state government will take action on it on a war-footing. "....the division bench has spoken in terms- that the work being done by government on the encroachment issue

Mangaluru, Nov 21: Activist and Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar on Friday flagged off a boat rally from Mangaluru to Thiruvananthapuram at Bunder, here, aimed at protection of sea, coast, inland water bodies and fisheries resources. The rally is being organised in association with National Fishworkers Forum in Karnataka and Kerala. The campaign will witness a series of public meetings

New Delhi, Nov 21: Indians were flying aeroplanes, carrying out stem cell research and may even have been using cosmic weapons 5,000 years ago, according to the chairman of India's leading historical organisation. Professor Y. Sudershan Rao, the head of the Indian Council of Historical Research, has been criticized by fellow historians for comments that Hindu epics are adequate to understand the

Mangaluru, Nov 21: Dakshina Kannada unit of Bharatiya Janata Party has launched a systematic membership registration drive by opening a separate office for the purpose at Jagannath Joshi Soudha, party head office here on Friday. Former Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar formally inaugurated the membership registration office in the presence of Dakshina Kannada MP Nalin Kumar Kateel, former minister

Chennai, Nov 21: Madras High Court has quashed cases of rioting, attempt to murder and unlawful assembly registered against more than 1,000 members of Popular Front of India (PFI) in connection with a clash with police during a rally taken out in Ramanathapuram district in February this year. Justice G M Akbar Ali, in a petition filed by 19 persons named in the cases, said it would be a farce to