Karnataka

Riyadh, Sep 17: Students and government employees all over the Kingdom will get two days of holidays on the occasion of the National Day holiday that falls on Sept. 23, according to a royal decree issued by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah on Monday. “As this year's National Day falls on the second day of working days, Sunday has been declared a holiday for students of all academic

Bantwal, Sep 17: Thieves entered a residence at Nethrakare in Vittal Kasaba and decamped with valuables worth rupees lakhs. The matter has come to light only on Monday night. The thieves gained entry into the house of K Ravindra Kamath, Manager of Ganesh Beedi Works, Puttur, by opening the roof tiles. They broke open three cupboards in the house and took away a Rado watch costing about Rs one lakh

Bantwal, Sep 17: A person serving life imprisonment, who was out on parole has managed to escape by not returning to jail on completion of 45 days parole granted to him. The lifer is Isubu Moilar alias Yusuf Musliar from Rengelu near Melkar in Panemangalur village. He was sentenced for killing his second wife Mariamma in 2005 and then throwing her undressed dead body to Phalguni river in Gurpura

Belthangady, Sep 17: Dakshina Kannada district has been billed as the laboratory for miscreants to experiment ways of posing atrocities on women, said Samatha Bharatha Jnana Vijnana State Convener and Thinker N Prabha. She said that while the Delhi gang-rape victim has been given justice, the Saujanya murder case has not been given justice yet. The student was abused and made to death in

Surathkal, Sep 17: Taking the issue of shortage of full-time doctors at Surathkal Primary Health Centre, DYFI staged a stir on Monday, at the PHC demanding for better facilities including appointment of full-time doctors, nurses and re-starting 108 ambulance service. DYFI District President Muneer Katipalla addressing the protesters said that though the Health Minister visited the PHC the problems

Bangalore, Sep 17: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's change of attire during his recent tour to China to attend the World Economic Forum (WEF) left him uncomfortable through the six-day trip. Siddaramaiah, who usually wears kurta and white dhoti, sported suit and trousers while attending meetings at WEF. “It was uncomfortable...For me this is best (kurta and dhoti)”, Siddaramaiah said in an

Bangalore, Sep 17: Retired IAS officer Shamim Banu, who was remanded in judicial custody till September 21 by the CBI special court here earlier this month, was granted bail on Monday. The court had remanded Banu in judicial custody on September 7 while hearing her bail petition as the CBI sought time to file it objections. The CBI has filed a charge sheet against the Deccan Mining Syndicate (DMS)

Mangalore, Sep 16: The Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI), Forum Against Atrocities on Women and Dalit Sangharsha Samiti have demanded fresh probe into the case and stern action against Mangalore South Assistant Commissioner of Police T R Jagannath who had allegedly harassed his female sub-ordinate, Shreekala, according to a complaint she had submitted to the Police Commissioner and

Mangalore, Sep 16: Taking serious note of the fact that drinking water available to the population dwelling in over 5,000 villages in the State are contaminated by hazardous elements like nitrate, flouride and arsenic, the government at the state is all set to install 1,000 water purification units in villages by end of this fiscal year. Speaking about the same Minister for Rural Development and

Bangalore, Sep 16: Japan has evinced interest in funding and sharing technology in a bullet train project in Karnataka, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said here today. Siddaramaiah said he had a meeting with Japan's Minister for Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Hakubun Shimomura, on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum meeting at Dalian in China. The Japanese side evinced