Karnataka

Mangalore, Nov 29: Chain snatchers who approached a woman on bike took away a gold chain costing Rs 2.5 lac, from M R Battalu area in Jeppu at about 9.30 pm on Thursday. Shilpa, a resident of Jeppu was on her way back home with her husband after attending a programme, when three men on bike pulled her chain and escaped. The trio was on a black pulsar bike. Though the Pandeshwar police informed the

Ujire, Nov 29: Maintaining he has not protected any criminal, Dharmasthala Dharmadhikari Dr Veerendra Heggade said that he and devotees of Dharmasthala were deeply hurt with the negative publicity in the past few days. He was speaking to the devotees who had come by walk from Janardhan Swami Temple in Ujire to Dharmasthala, at Amruthavarshini Sabha Bhavan on Thursday. “From the last one and a half

Mangalore, Nov 29: Third JMF court in Mangalore acquitted Madoor Isubu, an alleged associate of underworld kingpin Chota Shakeel, in two cases. Isubu was arrested in 2010 on various charges including murder. Two cases in which Isubu was accused of giving life threat to family members of Sunil who involved in Jabbar murder case in 2003 and to K C Road Latheef in 2012 were not proved. Imthiyaz

Mangalore, Nov 28: The second additional district court granted bail to Rasheed Malbari bail in two of the cases on Thursday. He was sentenced for five year rigorous imprisonment by the fourth additional district for illegal possession of arms in August this year. He will have to spend four more months in prison. The court then had found him guilty under section 25 (1) (a) of Arms Act. The judge

Mangalore, Nov 28: Condemning the brutal attack on journalist V T Prasad by a group of men near his residence in Bantwal taluk on Wednesday, a delegation of reporters and mediapersons submitted a memorandum to the Dakshina Kannada Superintendent of Police here on Thursday, urging action against the attackers at the earliest. A group of mediapersons met SP Shantanu Sinha at his office in the city

Mangalore, Nov 28: It is not just enough if one gets higher education, what is important is that an individual should imbibe values. This was the opinion of Cognizant Technology Solutions Vice-President Lakshminarayan. Addressing the gathering and conferring degree to the students of Sahyadri College of Technology and Management on Thursday, he said that the students can scale greater heights and

Dubai, Nov 28: His Highness Shaikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Crown Prince of Dubai, on Wednesday raised the UAE National Flag from the top of the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, to celebrate Dubai's win at the World Expo 2020 bid as well as the country's 42nd National Day. Dubai won the bid yesterday at the BIE General Assembly in Paris, beating Izmir, Sao Paulo

Mumbai, Nov 28: The seventh season of the hit TV quiz show 'Kaun Banega Crorepati' got its first female crorepati in the young Firoz Fatma from Uttar Pradesh. Hailing from Saharanpur in UP, the 22-year-old became the first woman to have won Rs one crore in this season of the game show hosted by megastar Amitabh Bachchan. A BSc graduate, Firoz never wanted her sister to stop studies due to

Mangalore, Nov 28: “The science and management of bio-diversity is not simple with individual solutions but a complex web of issues, and we need more lawyers, anthropologists, sociologists, economists and biologists to make right policies and decisions,” said Dr K S Sugara, Assistant Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, Karnataka Forest Department. Delivering the keynote address at a trainers'

Belgaum, Nov 28: Staging a dharna, BJP members today created ruckus in the Karnataka Assembly over the suicide of a sugarcane farmer as they demanded Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's resignation blaming him for the tragedy. As the House assembled, BJP members stormed into the well and started shouting slogans against the government and demanded Siddaramaiah's resignation for the suicide of a 60-year