Karnataka

Bangalore, Oct 25: Despite widespread campaign to avoid crackers during Diwali celebration, hundreds of people, most of them children, have suffered eye injuries in last three days across Karnataka. In Bangalore alone nearly 60 children suffered eye injuries and are being treated at various hospitals across the city. The festivities were dampened by rain on Wednesday and it picked up on Thursday

Kasargod, Oct 25: A mouthpiece of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has triggered a controversy by indirectly suggesting that Nathuram Godse should have killed Jawaharlal Nehru instead of Mahatma Gandhi. According to sources, the writer of this controversial article published in Kesari, the RSS mouthpiece in Kerala, is B Gopalkrishnan, who fought unsuccessfully on a BJP ticket in the Lok Sabha elections

Mangalore, Oct 25: The arts and crafts exhibition of'Poompuhar' a unit of Tamil Nadu Handicrafts Development Corporation Limited, was inaugurated by Mayor of Mangalore Mahabala Marla at Woodlands Hotel in the city on Friday. The exhibition-cum-sale of handicrafts and hand crafted textiles, which is being held for the fourth time in Mangalore, will be held till November 3. Several statues and

Mangalore, Oct 25: As many as five Bajrang Dal activists have been booked for abducting and attempting to outrage the modesty of a Christian woman and forcing her to marry a Hindu boy in the city. The development comes after the Catholic Christian woman, who managed escape from the clutches of her'husband' four days after her marriage, filed a case against several Bajrang Dal activists at

Kolkata, Oct 25: Close on the heels of negative propaganda by media post-Burdwan blasts, a mysterious incident of attempted burning of a Madrassa student in a village near here, allegedly by a suspected radical group, has given rise to communal tension. Amiruddin Khan (16), a student was set afire by unidentified persons after tying him to a window of the Madrasa Hafiz-e-Quran at Bhagwanpur

Bangalore, Oct 25: Karnataka Police Friday arrested the secretary of a society that runs a private school here, where a three-year-old student was allegedly raped, and registered criminal cases against its three office-bearers. "We have registered a criminal case against K.R.K. Reddy, secretary of Sri Gowtham Academy of General & Technical Education Society, which runs Orchids The International

Bangalore, Oct 25: There is no need to panic over government medical doctors threatening to go on strike, Minister for Health and Family Welfare U T Khader said on Friday. According to him, his department will make alternative arrangements, if necessary, and ensure proper healthcare services. Addressing reporters here, he said that he was open to holding talks with the doctors and discussing their

Bangalore, Oct 25: Health and Family Welfare Minister U T Khader, who was pulled up by Legislative Assembly Speaker Kagodu Thimmappa over the shortage of government doctors, defended himself on Friday, saying, œthe Speaker has only given him some suggestions out of affection.  Speaking to reporters, Khader denied being pulled up and claimed to be happy about the department taking steps to solve

Dubai, Oct 24: An Indian man, who had disappeared from his hometown in Kerala nearly 40 years ago, has been found by his family at a hospital in Dubai in the UAE, a newspaper report said. Now in his 60s, Abdulla Punathil Usman has been working as a cook in an Arab national's house in Hor Al Anz since early 1970s, the Gulf News reported on Wednesday. "He hails from Chavakkad in Thrissur district in

Mangalore, Oct 24: Lashing out at the Karnataka government for failing to fulfill its promises to the people, Dakshina Kannada district committee president of BJP, Pratap Simha Nayak, said that all developmental activities in the state had come to a halt under the Congress-led government in Karnataka, while the government focused on intervention in the functioning of the police department