Karnataka

Mangalore, Sep 27: The Mangalore South police have arrested four persons in connection with the murder of a youth at Gorigudde, Mangalore. The police have named the arrested as Santosh Shettigar (38), Sandesh Kotiyan (21), Pavan Shetty (20) and Harshit Shetty (21). 30-year-old Durgaprasad Shetty, an employee of a chit fund company, in Gorigudde on September 22. According to police sources

Mysore, Sep 27: A 25-year-old anti-national thug, who threatened to destroy Mysore by carrying out bomb blasts during Dasara, was arrested by the police. The arrested terrorist has been identified as Pradeep, a resident of SIT Extension in Tumkur. It is learnt that he is a BCA student. Pradeep had sent the e-mail to the office of city Police Commissioner at around 8.27 p.m. on September 21. The e

Mysore, Sep 27: Based on the technology developed by the Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), a co-operative association expects to market'neera' (alcohol-free toddy) across the globe. Representatives of the Kerala-based Palakkad Coconut Producer Company Limited (PCPCL), which signed a memorandum of understanding with the CFTRI on Friday, say farmers can get up to Rs 30 for every

Mangalore, Sep 26: A Bangalore-based techie was arrested for spreading offensive messages in social media and misinterpreting a photograph posted by coastaldigest.com. The arrested has been identified as Shyam Prasad Bhat(37), a native of Belthangady, who works for Hewlett Packard (HP) private limited in Bangalore. A team of police from Mangalore North Police Station arrested Bhat at Judicial

Bantwal, Sep 26: In a tragic and unfortunate accident, a 11-year-old boy lost his arm, when a huge branch of the Peepal tree in the premises of the school he was studying in, broke and fell on him on Thursday. Hasanabba, a student of Nettarakere government school in Thumbay gram panchayat limits in Bantwal taluk, lost his entire right arm in the mishap. The tragedy occurred when students of the

Mangalore, Sep 26: œIrrespective of political representation of women in India, we need to focus on women as a constituency in social, economic, cultural and political contexts. The economic empowerment of women is a prerequisite for sustainable development,  said Prof Yashavantha Dongre, co-ordinator, Third Sector Research Centre, University of Mysore. He was delivering the keynote address at

Beltangady, Sep 26: The poor villagers never expected that their effort to trap troublesome wild boars will end up in the capture of a mighty beast. The inhabitants of Kundadka hamlet near Machina village in Belthangady taluk were in for a rude shock on Friday morning, as they witnessed a giant leopard lying in front of them. The beast was caught in a snare set for wild boars at a field owned by

Ghazni, Sep 26: Hundreds of Taliban fighters have stormed a strategic district in an Afghan province not far from the capital, killing dozens of people in five days of fighting and the insurgents could capture the area, officials said on Friday. The Ghazni provincial government has lost contact with police in the province's western district of Ajrestan, said Asadullah Safi, deputy police chief of

Mangalore, Sep 26: A 30-year-old man was waylaid and stabbed by unknown miscreants on Thursday in Konaje police station limits on the outskirts of Mangalore. The victim has been identified as Ibrahim, resident of Vittal in Bantwal taluk. It is learnt that few unknown persons waylaid Ibrahim when he was riding towards his wife's residence in Pajir near Konaje on his motorcycle, and stabbed him with

Dharwad/Belgaum, Sep 26: More than a week after BJP supremo Amit Shah's Karnataka visit, unexpected communal tensions erupted in two districts of the state. A tense atmosphere prevailed in parts of Dharward and Belgaum on Friday following communal clashes which claimed at least two lives and injured dozens of people on Thursday. Dharwad One person was killed and three others seriously injured