Karnataka

Hyderabad, May 15: An uneasy calm prevailed in riot-hit areas of Hyderabad Thursday, a day after paramilitary troopers opened fire killing three people following communal clashes that left scores injured. An indefinite curfew continued in Kishan Bangh, Sikh Chowni and Arsh Mahal areas of the Cyberabad police commissionerate. Police said the situation remained peaceful. No untoward incident was

Mangalore, May 15: According to P H Muhammad Deralakatte, who lost five members of his family including two children in a ghastly road mishap near Periyapatna on Wednesday, the driver of their tempo traveller Sharafuddin was carefully driving. “He was driving carefully. He was also talking to Junaid (who was also killed). When our vehicle reached Kamplapur near Periyapatna an oncoming truck

Bangalore, May 15: A lorry ran amok for more than three kilometers in filmy style killing two persons and injuring nine people near Attibele Cross in Anekal taluk on Wednesday afternoon. Police had to fire in the air to disperse a mob which tried to torch. The drunk driver of the Tamil Nadu-registered container lorry went berserk and rammed into the road divider, a compound wall, some passersby

Doha, May 15: Qatar, which will host the 2022 football World Cup, said it will abolish its controversial sponsorship system. It "will be replaced with a system based on employment contracts," as part of a package of labor reforms, said a statement released at a press conference in Doha. Sponsorship systems for foreign workers exist in most Gulf countries, which employ millions of foreigners

Mysore, May 15: The judge of first additional principal and sessions court, N?Rudramuni, (49), was crushed to death by a a speeding bus at Tirumala in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, on Wednesday. Rudramuni was returning from the temple when he came under the wheels of the Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation bus around 4.30 pm. He had been to the temple town with his siblings and friends

New Delhi, May 15: The Narendra Modi-led NDA is on course to form the next government by winning 279 seats, while the Congress-led UPA could finish with 103 seats, an exit poll conducted by NDTV said on Wednesday night. The regional parties, including the SP, BSP, AIADMK, DMK and the Trinamool were projected to win 161 seats. The AIADMK and the TMC could stand third and fourth in the tally with 32

Mangalore, May 14: Hundreds of people from different walks of lives including relatives and friends took part in the last rites of the nine victims of Piriyapatna road mishap which devastated two families from Deralakatte of Mangalore taluk. The embalmed bodies of the victims-Ameer, Fouzia, Hisham, Zeenath, Safeeda, Shamoon, Ayishamma, Junaid and Sharfuddin-were brought to Deralakatte village from

Hyderabad: City Police Commissioner Anurag Sharma visited the riot hit Kishanbagh area where Sikh and Muslim community clashed in the morning resulted in subsequent police firing which has confirmed three deaths of Muslims till now, toll is expected to rise further. Incident occurred at Sikh Chowni in Kishanbhag area of Bahadurpura where a religious flag of Sikhisim was blazed last night by some

Mangalore, May 14: The counting of votes registered in the eight Assembly segments of Dakshina Kannada will begin at 8 a.m. on Friday at Mahatma Gandhi Centenary College, Bondel where the electronic voting machines (EVMs) are stored in eight strong-rooms, informed deputy commissioner and district returning officer A B Ibrahim. Addressing a press conference here on Wednesday, he said that the

Bangalore, May 14: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaih today said he is hopeful that Congress will win around 18-20 Lok Sabha seats in the state banking on his government's pro-masses schemes. "I'm hopeful of winning 18-20 seats, day after tomorrow results will be out," Siddaramaiah told reporters here after attending the Co-ordination Committee meeting of Karnataka Congress at KPCC office here