Karnataka

Mangalore, Aug 6: Three persons were arrested by Mangalore north police in connection with alleged inter-state theft of two-wheelers. Mohammed Naushad, 22, from Seethangoli, Mohammed Faizal, 28, from Arikkady, and Majid, 31 from Chengala are the arrested. All hail from Kasaragod. While the first two accused used to steal bikes, Majid was the receiver, who has a scrap shop in Chengala. Police have

Ahmadabad, Aug 6: The Gujarat High Court granted temporary bail to Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Babu Bajrangi, convicted in the 2002 Naroda Patiya riots case. A division bench of justices A S Dave and Sonia Gokani granted temporary release from jail to Bajrangi for treatment of an eye disease, from August 9 to 16. In his plea before the HC seeking temporary bail, Bajrangi, presently lodged

Mangalore, Aug 5: Urging to restart the direct flights to Kuwait from Mangalore, J.R Lobo, MLA of Mangalore south constituency, along with R Roshan Baig, minister for Information, Infrastructure development and Haj met Rohit Nandan, chairman and managing director of Air India at and G M Siddeshwar, minister of State for Civil Aviation, Govt of India, separately at New Delhi on Tuesday. The direct

Mangalore, Aug 5: Gulabi Gang leader Sampat Pal Devi is ready to open branches of her movement in Karnataka if people of the state are ready to take initiatives. Addressing the gathering at a workshop on distress management for women, self-defence techniques, organised by the Vivek Traders here on Tuesday to commemorate Mangalpady Namdev Shenoy she exhorted the oppressed and subjugated women to

Bangalore, Aug 5: A 70-year-old man who was a part-time teacher at a private school in Bangalore has been arrested after an eight-year-old student said she had been sexually abused by him. Bangalore was shocked and outraged last month by the rape of a six-year-old at a fancy private school. After days of angry protests, the police arrested three men who were instructors at the Vibgyor High School

Bagalkot, Aug 5: Rescue efforts were on for the third day today to pull out a six-year-old boy trapped in an abandoned borewell at a farm in nearby Sulikeri village, even as his father pleaded for stopping the operation, fearing the worst for his son. District officials said 70-75 ft trench has been dug so far to gain access to Thimmanna Hatti, who is trapped at a depth of 160 feet in the 300-ft

Bangalore, Aug 5: To ensure better safety of passengers, KSRTC has procured two Metrolink buses, which have six emergency doors with 12 hammers and real-time fleet management system, besides black box and speed governor. Swedish automobile giant Scania handed over two buses to KSRTC on Monday for trial. The move comes in the wake of several cases of bus infernos last year. The buses offer aircraft

London, Aug 5: Sayeeda Warsi resigned from her position as a senior minister in Britain's Foreign Office on Tuesday, saying she could no longer support the government's policy on the conflict between Israel and Hamas. Warsi, a baroness who sits in Britain's upper house of parliament, became Britain's first Muslim to serve in Cabinet in 2010 but was later demoted to be a senior minister of state at

Mangalore, Aug 5: A case was registered at Mangalore North Police Station against unidentified miscreants for sending offensive images through WhatsApp messenger insulting Kudroli Sri Gokarnatheshwara Temple and its pioneer B Janardhan Poojary. In a complaint, temple treasurer Padmaraj said that he received an image on Saturday which read as “a religious bigot called Janardhan Poojary had

San Francisco, Aug 5: A mobile game that simulates Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip and invites users to "drop bombs and avoid killing civilians" has been pulled from Google Inc's app store, a company spokesman said on Monday after a public backlash. "Bomb Gaza," developed by PlayFTW and still available as an app on Facebook, simulates the on-going conflict between Zionists' regime Israel and the