Karnataka

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

Riyadh, Nov 7: India has launched fresh efforts to help those who could not avail a seven-month amnesty for illegal foreign workers in Saudi Arabia, whose new labour law has resulted in nearly 1.35 lakh Indians leaving the Kingdom. The number of Indians who left during the grace period till October-end is 134,281, the Indian Embassy here said in a statement. During this period, 434,667 Indians

Mangalore, Nov 7: Government Wenlock Hospital is severely understaffed. There is acute shortage of both medical as well as cleaning staff, said the employees of the hospital to J.R. Lobo, MLA, Mangalore City (South), when he visited the hospital on Wednesday to inaugurate renovated kitchen room. Briefing about new kitchen medical superintendent, Wenlock hospital, Dr Rajeshwari said that the

Mangalore, Nov 7: It was not just a day of poems and words. It was the day of deliberation as poets brought to the venue their thoughts on love, communal harmony, environment, humanity and everything under the sun. While some spoke of innocence of children some spoke of evils in the society, while some wrote in poetic words the pangs of status of girls in the society some hoped for a change. This