Karnataka

Mangalore/Udupi, Mar 26: A police team arrested a truck owner and seized Rs. 20 lakh from his truck, which was going from Udupi to Mangalore on National Highway 66, at Mulloor village in Udupi district on Tuesday. According to Sunil Y Naik, Circle Police Inspector, his team of four policemen and he were checking vehicles at Mulloor, when a truck did not stop in spite of being signalled to stop

Hyderabad, Mar 26: Maulana Mohammed Abdul Qavi, Hyderabad-based Islamic scholar was picked up at the New Delhi airport reportedly by Gujarat's anti-terrorist squad (ATS) en route from the capital city to Deoband in Uttar Pradesh, where he was to attend a conference, his family said on Monday. According to Maulana Qavi's elder brother, Mufti Abdul Moghni Mazhari, who runs an Islamic seminary in

Riyadh, Mar 26: India has warned its nationals in Saudi Arabia against nefarious attempts by "self-styled social workers" to instigate Indian women workers to go on a strike. Activities of such anti-social elements and illegal agents spoil the goodwill that exists for Indians in Saudi Arabia, the Indian embassy in Riyadh said. "It has come to the notice of the embassy that some self-styled social

Bangalore, Mar 25: A retired banker was killed and his wife seriously injured after a seven-member gang, posing as jewellery merchants, attacked the couple in their house in Wilson Garden on Tuesday, in a bid to loot an antique gold necklace. Taking swift action, the police and two passers-by caught three of the culprits while they were fleeing. Uday Raj Singh (65), a retired State Bank of Mysore

New Delhi, Mar 25: Narendra Modi says that he was "sad" about the 2002 Gujarat riots but has no guilt, and that no court has "come even close to establishing" it. He has suffered 12 years of public "Modi-bashing" since the time of the riots but says that he had decided early on to "let the media do its work; there will be no confrontation". "I never waste my time in confontation", the BJP's prime

Bangalore, Mar 25: Congress veteran C K Jaffer Sharief, who is upset over denial of ticket to him to contest Lok Sabha polls, today said he has quit the party, snapping his six-decade old association with it. "I have faxed my resignation from the Congress primary membership to AICC President Sonia Gandhi, but will not contest Lok Sabha elections," Sharief told a news agency over telephone from

Varanasi, Mar 25: Arvind Kejriwal told a capacity crowd at a rally in Varanasi today that he will take on the BJP's Narendra Modi in the general elections in this temple town of Uttar Pradesh. The Aam Aadmi Party chief built a case for his candidacy by ripping into Mr Modi's claims of development in Gujarat, the state he governs, and then said, "I will contest these elections against Modi from

Hubli, Mar 25: Shell-shocked after being thrown out of BJP within hours of his induction, Sri Rama Sena chief Pramod Muthalik vowed that he will fight this election for the sake of Hindutva and file his nomination papers as an independent candidate. "I will file my nomination papers as an independent candidate to stand by myself," said the Hindutva leader. "I will fight this election for the sake

Mangalore, Mar 25: Former minister Krishna J Palemar accused the Congress of failing to keep up to its promises such as removal of self-assessment tax and provision of single site approval in Dakshina Kannada within ten months of coming to power in the state. Speaking at a press conference here on Tuesday, he said that local Congress leaders had given false assurances of eliminating self

Udupi, Mar 25: A huge cache of explosives was seized by police in a raid at Durga village in Karkala taluk of Udupi district on Tuesday, three weeks ahead of polls. The seizure effected by a team of police from Karkala included a huge quantity of ammonium nitrate. It is learned that a Kerala origin person identified Biju had stored the explosives. The accused is said to be absconding. The police