Karnataka

Mangalore, Aug 2: A Catholic woman from Mangalore has filed a case of being duped by a man from Hyderabad after he tricked her into marriage by falsely claiming to be a Protestant Christian and a bachelor. In her complaint, Jyothi Teresa Pereira, a resident of Mangalore, said that she came across a man named Naveen Ebenezer from Hyderabad over a matrimonial website Shaadi.com few years ago in 2007

Mangalore, Aug 1: For the second consecutive year, Kannadigas residing in Bahrain will host a cultural festival Bahrain Kannadotsava' on Sunday at Town Hall in Mangalore, to celebrate the essence and culture of Karnataka. Announcing this at a news conference here on Friday, Ramesh Manjeshwar from Bahrain Kannadigas said that the preparations for the Kannadotsava' were in full swing. The event will

Belgaum, Aug 1: In an audacious act caught on CCTV, a woman has stolen a new born baby after entering the labour room at a well known hospital here. The CCTV visuals showed the unidentified woman walking away nonchalantly with the infant tucked in her clothes, police said today. The woman took away the infant from its grandmother at KLE Hospital here on Wednesday, saying it had to be administered

Bellary, Aug 1: About 100 Congress workers Friday ransacked their party office here after their local leaders were denied ticket to contest in a by-election in the state. The by-poll in question is to be held Aug 21 in the Bellary Rural assembly segment, 310 km from Bangalore. In what appeared to be a pre-meditated move, local television channels were alerted to telecast live the ruckus as party

Udupi, Aug 1: A middle aged businessman was killed and three others sustained severe injuries in a ghastly road mishap on National Highway 17 at Yermal in Udupi district on Friday. The deceased has been identified as Sampath Shetty (38) from Padubidri. He was running a poultry farm in Padubidri. The mishap took place when a speeding Mangalore Express bus rammed into the Bolero in which Shetty and

Mangalore, Aug 1: For the sixth time, Bearys Welfare Forum (BWF), Abu Dhabi will organise a mass-marriage for unmarried girls from the Muslim community hailing from financially backward background. The Briefing mediapersons at a press conference here on Friday, president of the forum Mohammed Ali Uchil said that the mass-marriage would be held in the month of October, for which the organisation

Bangalore, Aug 1: The Bangalore Metropolitan Task Force (BMTF) on Thursday booked FIR against opposition leader Jagadish Shettar for allegedly violating land revenue rules while allotting prime land in Bangalore city to an individual as chief minister in April 2013. IPC section 420 and other laws in Karnataka Land Revenue act has been imposed on Shettar, Sundaresh (beneficiary) and revenue

Gaza/Jerusalem, Aug 1: A spokesman of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the main UN body in Gaza, burst into tears on camera when asked by an Arab news station to explain the scale of civilian suffering. “There are times when tears speak more eloquently than words. Mine pale into insignificance compared with Gaza's,” Chris Gunness said. “UNRWA is overwhelmed in Gaza. We have

Jeddah, Aug 1: Prince Mishaal bin Abdullah, governor of Makkah province, has ordered the confiscation of "perverted" copies of the Qur'an that are being sold in some malls and markets in Jeddah. The governor has ordered the formation of a team to investigate and find out the origin of such fake copies and how they are being distributed, said the Saudi Press Agency (SPA). The team is to be composed

Gaza City, Aug 1: A premature baby rescued by Gaza doctors from her dead mother's womb last week has died due to complications and power cuts affecting the intensive care unit where she was treated. The six-day-old baby was born by emergency Caesarean section on Friday after doctors at Deir al-Balah hospital in central Gaza managed to save her from the womb of her mother, who died when an Israeli