Karnataka

Vittal, Aug 7: The police arrested a person who was engaged in illegally transporting cattle, at Vittal Kasaba on Tuesday. According to the police, the arrested are Kodange Siraj, (21) and Thimmaiah Achary. Acting on a tip off, the police waylaid a vehicle used for the transportation. The police have seized two cattle and a vehicle. A case has been registered.

Kochi, Aug 7: Kochi International Airport, which was closed for traffic since Monday following waterlogging on the runway, resumed operations Tuesday evening with Air India Express (AIE) operating its Kochi-Doha-Bahrain flight. AIE sources said one of their three flights, stationed in Thiruvananthapuram, was brought to Kochi by 1520 hrs for operating the Kochi-Doha-Bahrain flight via Kozhikode

Udupi, Aug 7: A woman was killed and four others were injured when the wall of their house caved in due to heavy rains at Yelagoli in Shivapura village in Karkala on Monday night. The deceased had been identified as 25-year-old Poornima. Her husband Sundar (35) and sister Pushpa (22), who were severely injured, had been shifted to Wenlock Hospital in Mangalore for treatment. Two of Poornima's

Mangalore, Aug 7: Six persons have been arrested by the Mangalore North in connection with the attack on industrialist Vijayendra Bhat on the Mannagudde –Ballalbagh road on July 2. The arrested have been identified as Deekshith (25) from Maroli, Satish (28), and his cousin Litesh Kumar (20) from Soorinje, Padmaraj from Bejai, Sonia from Someshwar, and Anil from Pumpwell. Deekshith and Litesh are

Bangalore, Aug 7: Getting an online appointment for your passport may get easy now. The Regional Passport Office on Tuesday announced it will accept online applications round the clock. Until now, the online-appointment window opened at 6.30pm, and all slots were booked within minutes. And applicants had to wait for the next day to strike an appointment. The round-the-clock facility will ensure

Mangalore, Aug 7: Flights carrying Hajj pilgrims from Mangalore International Airport are scheduled to depart between September 7 and 9 and would return between October 10 and 24, said a press release. Each day, 220 passengers are expected to depart for the pilgrimage to Makkah in Saudi Arabia. Air India is operating A-310 aircrafts to ferry the passengers. The Old Terminal Building of the airport

Bangalore, Aug 7: JD?(S) state president H?D Kumaraswamy on Tuesday said the main aim of his party is to defeat the Congress in the by-elections to two Lok Sabha seats. However, unlike his father H?D?Deve Gowda, he did not deny that the JD (S) will have no understanding with the BJP to achieve the set goal. In an interaction with this newspaper, Kumaraswamy said that the foremost goal is to retain

Mangalore, Aug 7: Condemning the ruthless assault on two Dalit sisters for indecent and vulgar exposure in Belthangady taluk, Dalit leaders demanded that the district administration should arrest the assailants as well as police officials who were involved in the attack. Speaking at a press meet here on Tuesday, member of Dakshina Kannada District Awareness and In-charge Committee Honnappa Kunder

Mysore, Aug 7: Wali, the 51-year-old male chimpanzee at the Sri Chamarajendra Zoological Gardens here, died of old age-related illness on Tuesday. The animal was the main attraction at the zoo and often played pranks on visitors. Chimpanzees have an average lifespan of 35-40 years in the wild. According to the zoo officials, Wali had been sick for the past two weeks. In the last few days, he did

Mangalore, Aug 6: Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal, Mangalore have jointly demanded immediate closure of illegal abattoirs in undivided Dakshina Kannada district, and urged the state government to implement the cow slaughter prevention act of 1964. Addressing mediapersons at a joint press conference in the city on Tuesday, VHP regional president M B Puranik said that the growing number of