Karnataka

Udupi, Sep 3: A special police team has been formed to nab the accused in connection with blackmailing a young girl's father of uploading her fake nude photos on social networking sites, and search operations for the accused are on-going, informed Udupi Superintendent of Police P Rajendra Prasad. In relation to the blackmail, the girl's father Muneer Ahmed has lodged a case against his sister's

Mumbai, Sep 3: Thousands of Haj pilgrims travelling to Mecca with private tour operators have been denied visas by the Saudi embassy in Delhi because their new scanning machine cannot read the data in these Indian passports. The pilgrims are in a spot as each has paid Rs 2.25 lakh to the Saudi authorities for arrangements like accommodation and food, and fees for muallims (the Saudi-appointed

Riyadh, Sep 3: An Indian man here allegedly burnt to death his wife and five-year-old child after the woman got to know of her husband's extramarital affair, Saudi media reported today. The woman and her minor child were found dead in their house in the Saudi capital Riyadh on Sunday, Arab News reported. The man has admitted to the crime, the report quoted police as saying. "The man said he killed

Bangalore, Sep 3: As many as 26 legislators including former chief minister H D Kumaraswamy and MLC Ivan D'Souza have failed to declared their assets and liabilities before the Lokayukta for the financial year 2013–14, even after being served with notices two months ago. Of the 26, six are members of the Legislative Council and rest are members of the Legislative Assembly. Defined as public

Bhatkal, Sep 3: A 15-year-old boy, who had gone “missing” from coastal Karnataka a month ago was on Tuesday traced in Mumbai, where he had come on his own accord to fulfil his dream of visiting the metropolis once in his life, police said.The teenager identified as Navratna Sharma, a resident of Nehru Nagar at Kumta town in Uttara Kannada, was found in south Mumbai's Nagpada area and was later

Bhopal, Sep 3: The conversion of two Dalit youths from Shivpuri snowballed into a law and order issue on Tuesday as seven more members of their family sought to convert to Islam while Hindu organisations tried to convince them to not change their faith. Tularam and Maniram, the two youths who were booked under the anti-conversion law last week, and seven family members turned up at the

Bangalore, Sep 3: The ongoing controversy involving Railway Minister D?V?Sadananda Gowda's son Karthik Gowda and actor Mythriya Gowda took a new turn on Tuesday with a Kannada film director claiming that he had married Mythriya a decade ago. Mythriya had lodged a complaint that Karthik had married her and then cheated on her by deciding to marry another woman. The RT Nagar police have booked rape

Kasargod, Sep 3: The Kasargod Additional District Sessions Court has found seven persons guilty in the murder of NRI businessman and resident of Trikaripur, A B Abdul Salam Haji, 59, during a robbery in 2013. The persons who are held guilty are the first accused C.K. Muhammed Noushad (37) from Anachal in Neeleswaram; O.M. Askar (31) from Thrissur, Muhammed Rameez (28) from Kottapuram near

Bangalore, Sep 3: Twenty-four students belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes have been given government scholarship to study abroad. Minister for Social Welfare H Anjaneya on Tuesday said the parents of most of the students were daily wage earners, drivers, retired government employees or vegetable sellers. He handed over sanction letters of scholarship to the 24 students who have

Dubai, Sep 2: An Indian man filed a case in a court in the UAE against his wife, who gave birth to a child in 2010 despite their not having sex for eight years, a media report said on Tuesday. The man, who is identified only as RJ, 48, said that he moved to a new job in Kuwait in 2006 and left his wife and only son in the UAE. RJ said that last year his friends, who live in the UAE, told him that