Karnataka

Mangalore, Sep 2: As many as 1,200 students along with NSS volunteers and citizens turned up at numerous beaches, including Tannirbavi along the Dakshina Kannada coastline on Sunday as a part of 'Save my beach' campaign. The campaign, organised by Mata Amritanandamayi Math and other organisations and clubs, started off around 8 a.m. on the ten beaches here: Someshwara Beach, Bengre Beach

New Delhi, Sep 2: All 160 cases of payout pertaining to 2010 Mangalore air crash have been settled with an overall outflow of Rs. 115.74 crore, according to the Union government. Minister of State in the Ministry of Civil Aviation K. C. Venugopal informed the Lok Sabha on August 29 that the Court of Inquiry appointed by the Government to look into the tragedy had submitted its report and the same

New Delhi, Sep 2: The Manmohan Singh government will have to tread on a diplomatic tightrope with oil minister M Veerappa Moily suggesting India may save nearly $8.5 billion (around Rs 57,000 crore) by importing cheaper crude from Iran which faces UN sanctions in the wake of its nuclear programme. In a note to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and finance minister P Chidambaram, Moily has said that so

Mumbai, Sep 2: She doesn't know Hindi, but her powerful and melodious rendition of Hindi songs helped 10-year-old Anjana Padmanabhan win the audiences' hearts, and thus, the first “Indian Idol Junior” title at the star-studded grand finale of the singing reality show here Sunday. For the finale, the Bangalore-based Anjana competed with three other finalists - Nirvesh Sudhanshubhai Dave, Debanjana

Riyadh/ Damascus, Sep 1: Saudi Arabia has said it is time for the world to do everything it could to prevent aggression against the Syrian people, and that it would back a US strike on Syria if the Syrian people did. Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal made his comments on Sunday as the United States awaits a final decision on strikes against the Syrian government for an alleged chemical gas

Bangalore, Sep 1: The government is considering various proposals including shutting down petrol pumps overnight from 8 pm to 8 am to check fuel demand as it looks at ways to cut the massive oil import bill, Oil Minister M Veerappa Moily said. "There are various options and ideas that have been floated. Shutting petrol pumps during the night is one of them. But we have not decided. It is just a

Mangalore, Sep 1: Committee for Resisting Saffronisation of Textbooks (CRST) has demanded Karnataka government to withdraw the Social Science textbooks of Class 6th and 9th stating that the textbooks prescribe for these two classes have strong saffron inclination accompanied by unreliable information. Suresh Bhat Bakrabail of CRST briefing press persons here on Saturday said that a brief analysis

Udupi, Sep 1: In what can be called as surprising incident, Manipal police have collected penalty of Rs 30,000 after filing 140 cases in three days from students for smoking in public areas. It may be recalled that the Center had banned smoking in public areas on October 2, 2008, under the Prohibition of Smoking in Public Places Rules, 2008; and Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products. However

Mangalore, Sep 1: At the monthly SC/ST grievance meeting held at the office of the Superintendent of Police in the city on Sunday, Dalit leaders raised the issue of not being notified of National Commission for Scheduled Castes member M Shivanna's visit to Dakshina Kannada few days ago. Dalit representative Ashok Konchady said that Dalit unions should have been informed about the visit of National

Bangalore, Sep 1: An undertrial with more than three dozen criminal cases including rape and murder pending against him escaped from the Bangalore Central prison on Sunday. Jaishankar reportedly jumped from the giant wall of the prison and escaped disguised as a policeman. A special police team has been formed to nab him. The Parappana Agrahara Central Prison in Bangalore, which is one of the