Karnataka

Bangalore, Mar 11: A fight over preparation of mutton and chicken biryani ended up in the cancellation of a wedding which was supposed to be held at a mosque in KG Halli on Monday. The wedding of Saifulla and Yasmin Taj was supposed to be held on Monday. The families had arranged for a reception at Golden Heritage Shadi Mahal in Fraser Town on Sunday night. The family of Taj had got 30 kg of

Puttur, Mar 11: A 16-year-old girl studying in class X was allegedly sedated and raped by her two neighbours in Kadaba near Puttur. Police arrested 31-year-old Purushottam and his friend Dhruva is absconding. The incident came to light after six months when she told her parents about the abuse. The accused who stayed in her neighbourhood took her from her house when she was alone to a remote hill

Bangalore, Mar 11: A real estate agent was killed on the spot and two others were severely injured after a crane rammed into several vehicles near the Jnana Bharathi campus here on Monday evening. According to the police, the incident occurred around 4:45 pm after the vehicle suffered a brake failure at Malagala, off the Jnana Bharathi campus. The crane, belonging to Sri Lakshmi Venkateshwara

Mangalore, Mar 10: In yet another incident of hate crime, suspected Hindutva activists barged into a house and assaulted a Muslim boy brutally for being with a girl. It is learnt that the assailants mistook the female relative of the boy to be a Hindu girl. Mehboob Ansari from Jharkhand who is a mason by profession had come to Panjimogaru with his relative to help her in getting a job in Mangalore

Chikkaballapur, Mar 10: Telugu megastar and union minister for tourism Chiranjeevi is likely to contest in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls from the parliamentary constituency of Chikballapur instead of sitting MP M Veerappa Moily. Owing to its proximity to Andhra Pradesh border, Chikkaballapur district has a large number of Telugu speakers, which will be an advantage for Chiranjeevi. The opposition

Mangalore, Mar 10: The Dakshina Kannada District Working Journalists ' Union has selected Suresh D Palli, correspondent of Hosa Digantha Kannada daily for the prestigious annual PaGo Award conferred for Best Rural Reporting for the year 2013. His report Korapalu Sarathyadalli Belagitu Grama ' published on June 13, 2013 was chosen for the prestigious award. The award consists of a cash prize of Rs

Mangalore, Mar 10: The officers of Customs at Mangalore International Airport have again thwarted attempt of smuggling of gold on Monday. They seized four gold pieces, totally weighing 1 kilogram and 130 grams and valued at Rs.30,60,398 and it was concealed in an Air Compressor. Passenger named Muhammad Kunhi Cheeri Kundu, 39, a resident of Cheeri Kundu House, Cheruvathur, Kaidakkad in Kasaragod

Muscat, Mar 10: Two Indian nationals, including a former managing director and a manager of a multinational engineering company in Oman, were among seven persons convicted and sentenced to jail in five bribery cases. Muscat Primary Court Sunday sentenced Kerala based former managing director P Mohammad Ali and a manager, whose name is not mentioned in the report, of Galfar Engineering to 15 years

Mangalore, Mar 10: Former Union minister B Janardhan Poojary, who is the official Congress candidate from the Mangalore parliamentary constituency in the Lok Sabha elections, threw a challenge to BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi to contest in the elections from the same constituency as him. Announcing this at a press conference here on Monday, he said that Modi ought to contest from

Mangalore, Mar 10: The Aam Aadmi Party of Dakshina Kannada unit announced that Marpalli Ramayya Vasudeva, popularly known as M RVasudeva as its Lok Sabha Candidate for the Dakshina Kannada constituency. Mr Vasudeva is a former Director of Airport Authority of India at Mangalore International Airport. In a press release, Rohan Shiri, a founding member of AAP DK said “Vasudeva as our MP Candidate