Karnataka

Bengaluru, Nov 4: The Central Crime Branch (CCB) of Bengaluru police has made public the names of 162 Bengaluru based companies along with three Chennai based, three Hyderabad based and one Pune based company (totally 169 companies) in whose names' fake certificates for job experience, project experience, and training were issued to candidates for a price. The CCB had conducted raids on seven job

Thirthahalli, Nov 4: A death note recovered by police has further deepened the mystery surrounding the death of Nandita, a 14-year-old girl, whose tragic end triggered communal clashes in the relatively peaceful town of Thirthahalli in Shivamogga district. Even though Sangh Parivar and parents of the Class 8 girl, who breathed her last at a private hospital in Manipal on October 31, strongly argue

Kundapur, Nov 4: A 15-year-old boy suffering from brain fever since August succumbed to the disease at Kasturba Medical Hospital in Manipal on Sunday. The victim is Abhijit, son of Annaiah Poojary from Marawanthe. The boy was suffering from Encephalitis (brain fever) from the second week of August. He was receiving treatment in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Kasturba Hospital in Manipal. Abhijit

Mangaluru, Nov 4: In an appalling incident, a dead baby rat was found inside the sealed packet of a reputed Indian company selling spice mixtures at Thodar near Moodbidri, on the outskirts of the city. The dead baby rat was found inside a sealed packet of Everest Spices' mixture by a consumer who bought the item from a store in Thodar. It was discovered when the consumer opened the spice mixture

Shivamogga, Nov 4: The Bharatiya Janata Party leaders are trying to “draw political mileage” out of the death of a minor girl, said Shimoga district in-charge minister Kimmane Ratnakar. Speaking to reporters here on Monday after briefing Chief Minister Siddaramaiah about Nadndita death issue, the minister accused the saffron party of “plotting to incite communal violence”. Brushing aside the

Thirthahalli, Nov 4: Even four days after the mysterious death of a 14-year-old girl, the communal tension has not subsided at Thirthahalli town in Shivamogga district. The communal tensions erupted in the town following the rumours that a Hindu girl was abducted, raped and poisoned by three men belonging to Muslim community. However, police sources brushed aside the rumours and said that the girl

Agra, Nov 4: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat advocated treading the path of Israel and Japan while serving the cause of nationalism, saying that these countries had risen from the ashes to become two of the strongest nations of the world. Addressing the closing session of 'Yuva Sankalp Shivir' (Youth pledge camp) at Astha city on the Agra-Mathura highway, he gave examples of the two countries that were

Manipal, Nov 4: A post-graduate student of Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT) committed suicide by hanging himself in his rented house here on Monday. The police said Abhijeet R (23) from Bagalkot district, who was doing his first-year M.Tech in Structural Engineering at MIT, ended his life at Purshotham Nagar behind MGM College grounds. P Rajendra Prasad, Superintendent of Police, said

Bengaluru, Nov 4: Officials of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) grilled senior RSS leader Kalladka Prabhakhar Bhat on Monday in connection with the suicide of Shyamprasad Shastry, brother of Diwakar Shastry whose wife has lodged a rape complaint against Raghaveshwara Bharati, the pontiff of Ramachandrapur Mutt. The CID officials had issued a notice to Prabhakar Bhat, asking him to appear

Mangaluru, Nov 3: Health Minister UT Khader and Dakshina Kannada district in-charge minister B Ramanath Rai have said there is a need to speed up works towards extending the present runway at Mangaluru International Airport to accommodate wide-bodied jets. Participating at quarterly KDP review meeting in the city on Monday the duo assured that issued would be raised at a scheduled meeting with