Karnataka

Udupi, Mar 1: Muddu Mohan took charge as the new Deputy Commissioner of Udupi district here on Friday. Mr Mohan took charge from the outgoing Deputy Commissioner M T Reju. Mr Mohan was serving as the State Project Director of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyana before being posted as Deputy Commissioner to Udupi. Mr Reju has been transferred as the Deputy Commissioner of Uttara Kannada district.

Mangalore, Mar 1: A peace committee meeting was convened on Friday to discuss the issues related to maintenance of law and order in Dakshina Kannada ahead of upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Dakshina Kannada Deputy Commissioner A B Ibrahim chaired the meeting in which several activists, political representatives took part. DC said that it was important to see to it that technology is not misused by

Bangalore, Mar 1: Veteran actor and Housing Minister M H Ambarish, who had been admitted to Vikram Hospital in the City for the past one week, was be shifted to Singapore on early Saturday morning for further treatment. According to sources in Vikram Hospital and sources close to Ambarish, he was airlifted to Singapore at 3.30 am on Saturday. Minister for Health and Family Welfare U?T?Khader had

Mangalore, Feb 28: A person has been arrested by the officials of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) at Mangalore International Airport on the charges of attempt to smuggle foreign currency to Dubai on Thursday. The passenger identified as Nizamuddin Abdul Khader from Kalanadu in Kasargod district was illegally possessing 9,900 UK pound sterling and 5,800 Australian Dollar valued at Rs. 13

Mangalore, Feb 28: Senior Congress leader B Janardhan Poojary, Union Minister Veerappa Moily's son and entrepreneur Harsha Moily and former Ullal Dargah President U Kanachur Monu filed their nominations for the much touted primaries (internal polls) as the aspirant candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha election from Mangalore constituency from Congress. After filing the nominations, the aspirants

Bangalore, Feb 28: Noted theatre artist and Kannada film actor C R Simha passed away on Friday at a private hospital in Bangalore. He was 72. Ritwik Simha, his son, said his father had been suffering from prostate cancer for one-and-a-half years and had recently been hospitalized after his health deteriorated. The brother of Kannada actor Srinath, Simha started acting at a very young age. While he

Bangalore, Feb 28: Taking cue from the Amma canteens in the neighbouring Tamil Nadu, Karnataka government is planning to step up to the plate by opening similar eateries across the state to offer food at highly subsidised rates. The Siddaramaiah government is now in a hurry to open such canteens in busy places in Bangalore but is not sure whether the plan can be executed ahead of the LS?elections

Mangalore, Feb 28: In an apparent act of hate-crime, a gang of around 50 thugs ambushed two vehicles that were legally transporting cattle near Pumpwell circle in the city and brutally assaulted five persons on board. The assailants, allegedly belonging to a Hindutva outfit also tried to rob the cattle by hijacking the vehicles. The victims have been identified as Cibi Cheriyan (44), a resident of

Mangalore, Feb 28: Victims affected by Endosulfan were distributed with eligibility certificates of their revised monthly stipend at a programme organised by Dakshina Kannada district administration, zilla panchayat and Department of Health and Family Welfare at Manchi in Bantwal taluk on Thursday. Speaking on the occasion, Deputy Commissioner A B Ibrahim said that the district had identified a

Los Angeles, Feb 28: A US appeals court on Wednesday ordered YouTube to take down an anti-Islamic movie that triggered protests in the Muslim world, after an actress alleged she had been duped into appearing in it. The 2012 appearance of "Innocence of Muslims" on Google's video-sharing site provoked deadly violence, but the current legal case against it relates only to the concerns of one of its