Karnataka

Belthangady, Nov 7: At least 25 persons were injured after a KSRTC bus in which they were going overturned after hitting a tree in Nidigal near Dharmasthala on Thursday morning. The KSRTC bus was going from Kadur to Dhamastala. The bus driver, Nagaraj, lost control over the vehicle and hit the roadside tree around 6 a.m. Conductor Revanappa, Shwetha Hospete, Anusha Hospete, Durgappa Hubli

Mangalore, Nov 8: MV Seabourn Odyssey with 438 passengers and 344 crew called at New Mangalore Port on November 7 which marks the beginning of the cruise season. According to a press release, this is the first cruise vessel of the season and the 7th vessel calling at the port during the current financial year 2013-14. The cruise season is from November to April. . This cruise vessel was on her 3rd

Udupi, Nov 7: A first year Pre-University College student died after he allegedly shot himself in his farm in Karje village near Brahmavar on Thursday morning. The deceased has been identified as Shreyas Shetty. He proceeded to his farm which is close to his house, carrying a licensed Smooth Bore Breech Loading (SBBL) gun. A few minutes later family members heard a gunshot and rushed to the farm

Mangalore, Nov 7: Rubbishing the claims made by a woman from Manjeshwar who had alleged that she had been cheated by a visa and travel agent in Mangalore, the latter came forward on Thursday to clarify that he had neither cheated nor duped the woman. Speaking at a press conference here on Thursday, visa agent and owner of Al-Ikhlas Tours and Travels, Bunder K Abdul Khader told mediapersons that

Lucknow, Nov 7: A man killed his father and another man and gave the crime a communal angle to grab the compensation promised by the Uttar Pradesh government to victims of the recent riots, police said Thursday. Chandra Pal Singh, a retired soldier, and Sauraj were found dead in Badgaon in Saharanpur district Oct 2. Police earlier thought the killings were related to the communal riots in

Melbourne, Nov 7: An Australian court today rejected the 2Day FM station's petition, paving the way for the country's media watchdog to conclude its probe into handling of a royal prank call by the Sydney-based radio station that led to the death of an Mangalore based nurse in the UK. With the ruling handed out by the federal court, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) can now

Bantwal, Nov 7: RSS head honcho Dr Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat has said that Manjunatha, the presiding deity of Sri Kshethra Dharmasthala will have to inspire the CBI officials to conduct an unbiased and judicious inquiry into the rape and murder case of Saujanya and thereby render justice to the grieving family. Addressing the reporters at Kalladka on Wednesday, he said that it is a tragedy that the

Bantwal, Nov 7: Activists of a Hindu outfit thrashed two persons who were transporting cattle in a vehicle and handed them over to Bantwal rural police, along with the cattle, on Tuesday evening. Moideen Ashfaq and Abdul Azeez from Kavala-Padoor are the ones who were thrashed and later handed over to the cops. Acting on a tip off the activists from a particular organization stopped the tempo

Bangalore, Nov 7: “Ditched” by her Facebook lover who befriended her just one-and-a-half-months ago, a teenage girl reportedly hanged herself at her home in Mahalakshmi Layout here on Tuesday evening. Police have arrested the man for abetment to suicide and rape. Manoj Kumar, 22, a BCom student from Nandini Layout, was arrested after he was named in a three-and-a-half-page handwritten suicide

Paris, Nov 7: Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was poisoned to death in 2004 with radioactive polonium, his widow Suha said on Wednesday after receiving the results of Swiss forensic tests on her husband's corpse. "We are revealing a real crime, a political assassination," she told Reuters in Paris. A team of experts, including from Lausanne University Hospital's Institute of Radiation Physics