Karnataka

Bangalore, Oct 1: They lured job aspirants with fake experience certificates, identity cards and much more ” all to make a fast buck. But the law finally caught up with them. The fraudsters are now cooling their heels in jail. As many as 26 persons, including a woman, were arrested on Tuesday after police busted the fake certificate racket. Seven premises, from where 25 such companies were

Kasargod, Oct 1: The Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) has decided to take out a mass march to the Mangalore International Airport in Mangalore in protest against the alleged harassment by the airport officials to Kerala-bound passengers, especially those hailing from Kasargod. A meeting of senior party leaders here on Tuesday alleged that Emigration and Customs officials at the airport tortured

Mangalore, Oct 1: Belthangady based Praja Prabhutva Vedike in association with Rashtriya Hindu Jagaran Vedike, and Navachandi Yaga Samiti, Belthangady will be holding a navachandi-yaga at Belthangady on October 10 to seek divine intervention in two-year-old Saujanya rape and murder case. Saujanya, a second year PUC student of SDM College, was found raped and murdered, on October 10, 2012, near

Udupi/Bangalore, Oct 1: The Lokayukta police on Tuesday raided nearly 17 premises belonging to seven government officials in three districts, including five officials in Bangalore, for owning assets allegedly disproportionate to their known sources of income. The simultaneous raids were conducted at 17 premises in Bangalore, Mandya and Udupi. Lokayukta officials have unearthed illegal assets to

Mangalore, Sep 30: Ahead of various religious festivals including Bakrid, Ayudha Pooja and Deepavali, Dakshina Kannada district in-charge minister B Ramanath Rai appealed to community leaders and representatives of social organisations to maintain peace and harmony in the district and directed the police authorities to act stringently against trouble-mongers who tried to stir up trouble during

Jammu, Sep 30: Congress president Sonia Gandhi today rejected NCP chief Sharad Pawar's remark that her party was responsible for ending their 15-year-old alliance over seat-sharing in Maharashtra. "The reason for it (severing of ties) was not us, not me, not Rahul, not Congress," Gandhi told reporters here when asked about Pawar's reported remarks that Congress was responsible for the alliance

Bangalore, Sep 30: Following her request to the chief justice of Karnataka, a special vacation bench of Karnataka high court on Tuesday agreed to hear AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa's bail petition on Wednesday. The high court had earlier today deferred the former Tamil Nadu chief minister's bail plea to October 6. To ensure a speedy hearing in the DA case, Jayalalithaa's lawyers have filed a

Mangalore, Sep 30: Due to the growing haughtiness of persons behind vigilante attacks in Mangalore, a youth from a poor family has been rendered incapacitated and is close to losing his life. Even after a month after a group of pro-Hindutva activists brutally attacked and thrashed three youth near Pumpwell while they were transporting cattle, the youth who bore the brunt of the attack is still in

Udupi, Sep 30: Sleuths of Karnataka Lokayukta police have raided the residence of a senior police officer in Udupi on Tuesday morning. The raid took place in the residence of Dr Prabhudev Mane, the Deputy Superintendent of Police of Udupi, in Brahmagiri, at around 6:30 a.m. sources said. Sources also said that the residence of one of the relatives of Dr Mane located in Hubli was also raided in the

Mangalore, Sep 30: The Dakshina Kannada district unit of Democratic Youth Federation of India organized a protest meet in the city demanding the state government to introduce KSRTC buses to rural areas in Mangalore Assembly constituency limits. The protesters took out a procession from the office of Deputy Commissioner's the office of RTO. Addressing the protesters in front of RTO's office on