Karnataka

Panaji, Jul 2: Goa government has asked its four MLAs, including a cabinet minister, to reimburse the money spent on booking tickets to Brazil to watch the football World Cup, even as the legislators left for the South American country to witness the ongoing mega sporting event. Sports Authority of Goa (SAG) Director Sandip Jacques said here that the four legislators have been asked to reimburse

Dindori/Indore, Jul 2: A priest killed his tribal wife who was half his age in the name of sacrifice in Bagulamukhi temple in Kurara village of Dindori district. The incident occurred on Saturday night when Satyanand, 50, tied his wife Manju Shyam, 24, with a rope and killed her ostensibly to seek the blessings of Goddess Bagulamukhi. The victim Manju Shyam is from the family of famous tribal

Udupi, Jul 2: Unidentified miscreants broke into a mobile telephone shop in Udupi and took away goods worth Rs. 3.12 lakh. The police said thieves broke into a mobile shop at Rehman Complex near Service Bus Stand between 8.30 p.m. on June 30 and 9.15 a.m. on July 1. They took 49 new and three old mobile telephone sets, 25 headphones, memory cards and pen drives. A case had been registered at Udupi

Manipal, Jul 2: Udupi District Health and Family Welfare Officer Ramachandra Bairy said that there had been seven deaths in the district due to H1N1 from January 1 to June 30. He was speaking at a meeting of doctors of private medical institutions on checking the spread of H1N1 at the District Offices Complex here on Tuesday. Dr. Bairy said that a total of 42 cases had been reported in the

Bangalore, Jul 2: Karnataka home minister K J George said that he was aware that underworld gangsters were making threat calls to businessmen and influential people, especially in coastal cities of Mangalore and Udupi. In his reply to a query by Karkala BJP MLA V?Sunil Kumar, the minister conceded that gangs making extortion bids had increased. Mr George said gangsters looked for publicity so that

Bangalore, Jul 2: Karnataka home minister K J George revealed that as many as 37 passports are found to have been procured by submitting fake documents in Mangalore, Udupi and other parts of the state. In a written reply to B?N Vijayakumar of the BJP, the minister provided details of all the 37 cases and the people involved. Cases have been booked against 76 people in this regard, he said. The

Mangalore, Jul 2: A major fire broke out in Karangalpady area on Monday night gutting a scrap dealer 's shop. The shop belonged to one Ibrahim Salim from Ullal in Mangalore taluk. Though, no casualty was reported in the accident but two adjacent houses were partially damaged. The fire was so huge that smoke from it covered a large part of the locality. Fire tenders were rushed to douse the flames

Mangalore, Jul 2: Mangalore International Airport has proposed to carry out Haj operations this year. First phase of Haj operations will commence on August 27 and end on September 1. As per the flight schedule, Air India Express flights will commence operations from Mangalore airport to Madinah daily at 3.15pm. Second phase of operations will commence on October 10 and conclude on October 14

Bangalore, Jul 1: Swedish Ambassador to India Harold Sandberg today invited Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to visit his country to study various systems including disposal of solid waste using sophisticated technologies. Siddaramaiah said the Ambassador invited to him for a visit from August 17 to 21 but the government would take a decision on the matter soon. The garbage disposal problem

Mangalore, Jul 1: With the proposed Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Bill, 2014 to be tabled soon in the Parliament, Child Line, in collaboration with others, will send in their recommendations and suggestions to the provisions in the newly-drafted Bill to incorporate them into the Bill before it is tabled. Giving an overview of the proposed bill and placing her observations