Karnataka

Kasargod, Jul 1: The Air Customs Intelligence wing at Karipur airport seized gold worth Rs 70 lakh from a passenger who arrived from Abu Dhabi on Monday morning. Customs officials nabbed Kozhikode-native Veliya Parambu Mustafa (33) with 2.4kg gold kg concealed in an electric hot plate in the form of gold coils. According to Mustafa's statement, he was handed over the gold by one Shanavas who is

Mangalore, Jul 1: A 35-year-old, who was pregnant with a pair of surgical scissors for more than four years, finally breathed a sigh of relief on Monday. Umm-ul-Miqass, a resident of Madoor near Kotekar in Mangalore taulk, once again underwent a crucial surgery on Monday in Unity Health Complex for the removal of surgical instruments from her stomach. It is learnt that reputed surgeon Dr Abdul

New Delhi, Jul 1: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has been summoned to Delhi by the central leadership of the Congress. The chief minister will attend a meeting with the leaders on July 2, where the debacle in the Lok Sabha elections in the State is likely to be assessed. Siddaramaiah is expected to have a tough time at the meeting. The development comes in the wake of several legislators and leaders

Bangalore, Jul 1: Scores of a strange insect have attacked trees in the forest areas of Siddapur in Uttara Kannada district for the last few months and they are spreading to towns now, the Assembly was informed on Monday. Raising the issue, Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri (BJP) said, “There is an explosion of insects which has been identified as Udonga Montana by entomologists. These small insects, which

Bangalore, Jul 1: A Delhi-bound Air India plane from Kochi, with 156 passengers and eight crew onboard, landed under emergency conditions at the international airport in Bangalore late Monday night following an "unspecific call" about a bomb threat, airline officials said. After the Airbus 320 (flight AI-047) took off from Kochi around 8.40 pm, there was a call from a man saying that there could

Kasargod, Jun 30: A 23-year-old leftist activist was brutally stabbed to death allegedly by a Sangh Parivar activist at Panatthadi here on Sunday night. The victim is Abdul Sharif, a resident of Panathur Pariyar village in Kasargod district. He enthusiastically used to participate in the activities of leftist organizations like Democratic Youth Federation of India and Communist Party of India

New Delhi, Jun 30: State-run oil marketing companies (OMCs) Monday hiked the petrol price by Rs.1.69 a litre, excluding taxes, effective from midnight, owing to a rise in global oil prices and exchange rates. Diesel prices were also hiked by 50 paise per litre. "Due to geo-political unrest in the Middle East, there has been significant increase in international oil prices during the past two weeks

Mangalore, Jun 30: Several footpath vendors, under the aegis of Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), staged a mass protest and dharna in front of the Mangalore City Corporation building here on Monday, protesting against the evacuation of street vendors from footpaths in several areas in the city by MCC officials. Speaking on the occasion, honorary president of Street Vendors Association

Mangalore, Jun 30: Traffic system in Mangalore will undergo significant changes as the city traffic police is planning to install 12 new signals under the M-track system. Announcing this at Mangalore Press Club on Monday, City Police Commissioner R Hithendra said that the Commissionerate will take all necessary steps to control the traffic efficiently and felicitate smooth moment of vehicles on

Mangalore, Jun 30: With the advent of June, several changes were made to ease congestion in the movement of traffic in areas of Mangalore city where traffic is at its peak on all days. In the newest change in the movement of traffic in the city, Mangalore city traffic police have introduced one-way system for three lanes around Balmatta and Bendoorwell on an experimental basis from Monday. This is