Karnataka

Incheon, Sep 29: M R Poovamma, a native of South Indian city of Mangalore, bagged a bronze in women's 400m race as India swelled their medal count from athletics competition to three at the Asian Games here on Sunday. Poovamma clocked 52.36secs in the final race behind pre-match favourite Oluwakemi Adekoya (51.59secs) of Bahrain and Vietnam's Thi Lan Quach (52.06secs) at the Inchon Asiad Main

Mangalore, Sep 29: The Bhoomi Pooja, launching and foundation laying ceremony of'Solitaire', the 32-floor residential project of Land Trades Builders & Developers was held at Hat Hill, Mangalore on Monday in the presence of a galaxy of dignitaries. Chief guest B Ramanath Rai, Minister for Forests, Environment & Ecology, Government of Karnataka, formally launched the model of'Solitaire' along with

Bantwal, Sep 29: A leopard was found caught in a trap laid by the forest department at Amyalagudde in Chennaittodi village in the taluk on Sunday night. There had been several sightings of a leopard roaming in the limits of Chennaittodi and Vamadapadavu from the past few weeks, due to which, the villagers had been living in fear. The villagers had also been missing their domestic animals such as

Mumbai, Sep 29: Kavita Karkare, wife of former Maharashtra Anti-Terror Squad chief Hemant Karkare who died fighting terrorists during the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai, died today afternoon after she suffered a brain haemorrhage. Mrs Karakare had been admitted to the Hinduja hospital in Mumbai after she had slipped into coma. Her body will be donated for medical research. Mrs Karkare had been in the

Mangalore, Sep 29: Mangalore woke up to another revolutionary move of appointment of two widows from the Dalit community as priestesses of Shree Gokarnanatheshwara Kshetra by the temple management committee at Kudroli here on Monday. Kudroli Gokarnanatheshwara temple, which has witnessed the onset of several new traditions, had witnessed the revolutionary tradition of the appointment of widows as

Bangalore, Sep 29: Jailed AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa today filed a petition in the Karnataka High Court challenging her conviction and seeking bail in the disproportionate assets case against her. The 66-year-old leader sought relief two days after a Special Court here sentenced her to jail for four years, as a fallout of which she lost her Assembly membership and consequently Chief Minister's

Mangalore, Sep 29: Several like-minded organisations came together on Sunday to debate and discuss the next course of action to prevent the Nethravati river diversion project from being implemented by the state government. In a discussion of several activists and like-minded citizen representatives with the motto of'Let's Save Nethravati', people were called on to bring in awareness among citizens

Thiruvananthapuram, Sep 29: In a rare incident, the Home Minister of India received a rousing reception from a murder accused at a prominent temple here. It was RSS activist T Santhosh, a prime accused in the 2008 murder of DYFI activist V V Vishnu, who received Home Minister Rajnath Singh at the Sree Padmanabha Swamy Temple on Saturday. State police authorities said the OSD and National Security

Mangalore, Sep 29: A dead young whale shark has washed ashore at the Panambur beach, on the outskirts of the city, far from the endangered giant fish's traditional feeding grounds. The 10-foot corpse took locals by surprise on the beach on Sunday morning. œIt was near the shore, we thought it was some kind of a deadly shark. When we approached, we saw it was not moving anymore,  said a visitor

Vadodara, Sep 29: Communal tension continued to escalate in Vadodara, the third largest city of Gujarat as two more cases of clashes were reported from the city on Sunday. The pattern of the clashes suggested that the violence was spreading beyond the walled city areas. On Saturday, one stabbing incident was reported from the city even as the police suspended mobile data services till September 30