Karnataka

Udupi, Nov 20: A source close to the police team investigating into the missing case of a 13-year-old student of Sharada Residential School, Kunjibettu, Udupi, have revealed she had developed a deep liking for popular television actor Faisal Khan. Eshika S Shetty, a student of class 8, is missing since around 8.30 p.m. on November 15. On Wednesday the girl's parents, who came from Muscat, along

Jeddah, Nov 20: The Passports Department has made mandatory for dependents of expat workers including women and children above 15 to have their fingerprints taken at its offices across the Kingdom. In Jeddah, special arrangements have been made to register the fingerprints of expat women and children as part of the second phase of the registration program. “All expat women and children above 15

Mangaluru, Nov 20: In a gut-wrenching incident, a three-year-old boy reportedly drowned in an abandoned quarry near his house at Vamanjoor village on the outskirts of the city on Wednesday. The victim has been identified as Ayyappa (3), the son of a labourer couple residing at Vamanjoor. The Mangalore Rural Police said Ayyappa had gone to play in the neighbourhood at around 9 a.m. and did not

New Delhi, Nov 20: In a fresh case of honour killing, a 21-year-old girl was allegedly murdered in the capital by her parents who opposed her marriage to a youth belonging to a different caste. The deceased, identified as Bhawna Yadav, a final year student of Sanskrit Honours at Venkateswara College, was allegedly strangled to death by her parents Jagmohan Yadav, a property dealer and his wife

Subramanya, Nov 20: The Karnataka High Court has allowed continuation of “Made Snana” ritual in its traditional form at Kukke Subramanyaswami temple at Subramanya till the court decided constitutional validity of the ritual. The court passed the interim order on a review petition filed by some of the employees of the temple questioning the modification of the ritual by the government. The court

Srinagar, Nov 20: The BJP said Wednesday it was confident Islam will prosper in Jammu and Kashmir if it got to rule the state. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) also said that it won't press for the abrogation of article 370 of the constitution, which gives special status to Jammu and Kashmir, if people of the state want it to stay. BJP state vice president Ramesh Arora, who is also in charge of

Kasargod, Nov 20: Two students of Standard X at Government Higher Secondary School, Hosdurg, here, have been arrested by police here in connection with the brutal murder of their classmate whose body was found in a water-filled pit last week. A police team led by Kanhangad Deputy Superintendent of Police Harishchandra Naik arrested the two boys, aged 16 and 17, on the charge of murdering their

Mangaluru, Nov 19: The officers of Customs at Mangaluru International Airport have busted another modus operandi of gold smuggling and seized gold weighing 1816.550 grams totally, in two separate cases worth nearly Rs 50 lakh. In the first case, the officers seized gold in the form of seven numbers of Ten Tola Gold Bars, totally weighing 816.550 grams and valued at Rs 22 lakh concealed in

Udupi, Nov 19: The mysterious disappearance of a Class VIII student from Sharada Residential School at Kunjibettu in Udupi, has caused her NRI parents great distress. Shekhar Shetty and Yashoda Shetty, who live in Muscat, the capital of Sultanate of Oman rushed to Udupi and took the school authorities to task for their alleged negligence towards 13-year-old Eshika Shetty, who went missing on

Mangaluru, Nov 16: Getting the pair of surgical scissors left behind in her stomach surgically removed after four years was not the last of her problems. Even four months after the surgery that successfully extracted the sharp object from her body, 35-year-old Afsa is still receiving medical treatment at Unity Hospital. Hailing from a poor background, Afsa and her family are unable to pay the