Karnataka

Mangalore, Nov 8: An expectant woman who was being rushed to the hospital owing to labor pain in 108 ambulance delivered a healthy baby girl on the way, on Wednesday evening. Resident of Koncharu Badriyanagar, near Bajpe, Nushrath started having labor pain on Wednesday night. While her family called an ambulance to take her to Lady Goschen Hospital, at about 12.40 am, she delivered the baby on the

Mangalore, Nov 8: Members of Karnataka Prantha Raitha Sangha (KPRS) staged a protest in front of DC office on Thursday against the'callous' attitude of the state government in granting them land rights. The protest was a part of a state-wide two-day protest to demand land rights to farmers and daily-wage labourers who have “encroached” government land, implementation of housing schemes for

Mangalore, Nov 8: Students Federation of India (SFI) staged a stir demanding CBI probe into all the rape, murder and unnatural death cases that have occurred in Ujire police station limits from 1986 to 2012. Madhuri Bolar of SFI Women's wing addressing the protesters during a rally outside DC's office on Thursday said that a woman was found dead in Ujire in 1987 under suspicious circumstances and

Bangalore, Nov 8: As many as 35 passengers had a miraculous escape as they alighted in time from a Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation?luxury bus which caught fire at Gorguntepalya on Thursday evening. The'Vaibhav' bus was on its way to the City from Hassan. The bus reached Gorguntepalya on Tumkur Road at around 5.30 pm and the driver Yusuf Ali Sharif halted the bus at the stop. The

Bangalore, Nov 7: We will do our best to oppose this proposed bill. We will not allow the session to run, if the government tables it in both Houses, says Prahlad Joshi. Opposing proposed legislation on anti-superstition and black magic in Karnataka, BJP today challenged the Congress Government to include superstitions practised by non-Hindu communities in the proposed legislation before it was

Mangalore, Nov 7: Criticising the state government led by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah for introducing'Shaadi Bhagya' scheme for poor brides belonging only to minority communities, the state unit of Akhila Bharata Hindu Mahasabha (ABHM) demanded that the scheme be also extended out to backward girls from the Hindu community in the state. Speaking at a press conference here on Thursday, working

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