Karnataka

Bangalore, Jun 25: The Home department in Karnataka has prepared fresh guidelines to be followed by universities for ensuring safety of their students in the wake of brutal gang-rape of a medical students in Manipal. The new guidelines would specifically focus on the feasible measures for ensuring security and safety of students of the state-run and private universities. They also focus on

Kasargod, Jun 25: After a meticulous investigation Kerala police have arrested a man wanted in around 200 theft cases across the south Indian state. Ratheesh, also known as 'Kozhi' Ratheesh, 50, of Vaikom, was known in police circles as 'Bunty Chor, the second' and was trapped by a special team under Baiju Poulose, Circle Inspector, Tripunithura, on the basis of visuals captured in CCTVs in three

Bangalore, Jun 25: Throwing caution to the wind, hundreds of curious people on Monday gathered to see a herd of elephants which had strayed into Huskur village, hindering the operation by forest department officials to drive away the pachyderms. The herd of 16 elephants, including two calves, had passed through Dommasandra before entering Huskur. The forest department in the evening managed to

Jeddah, Jun 25: Businesses and expats say they are pinning hopes on a possible royal gesture by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah before the advent of Ramadan to extend the July 3 amnesty deadline. Foreign diplomats have also requested the Saudi government either to extend the deadline or declare a new three-month amnesty in the beginning of next Hijrah year to help more expats

Mangalore, June 24: The runway of the Mangalore International Airport will be extended from 2,450 metres to 3,560 metres, for which 285 acres of land will be acquired said Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas M Veerappa Moily. He was briefing media persons on the upcoming developmental projects in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts, after chairing a review meet on various projects and

Mangalore, Jun 24: He helped her mother, a daily wage earner and washed vessels in a hotel in his spare time while he was studying, but financial hardship did not stop Manjunath from clearing the tough Joint Admission Test for MSc (JAM). Manjunath of Sullia taluk near Mangalore will now pursue his six-year joint MSc-PhD at IIT Bhubaneswar after clearing JAM. "I am leaving to Bhubaneswar on July 13

New Delhi, Jun 24: Rescuers working to evacuate stranded pilgrims in Uttarakhand claim to have recovered over Rs 1 crore over the past two days from the last few batches to be airlifted, money that had apparently been looted from this devastated town. The stolen jewellery and money, some of it in muddied and wet bundles of cash, amounts to Rs 1.25 crore and will be dispatched soon to the district

Mangalore, Jun 24: Four days after the gang-rape of a 22-year-old MBBS student at Manipal, Udupi district Police has finalised the sketch of one of the accused based on the description given by the victim. Sketches of the other two accused were expected to be released soon, according to Udupi SP Dr Boralinagaiah. The fourth year medical student was abducted and raped by three men in an

Mangalore, Jun 24: The new block of Lady Goschen hospital in the city, sponsored by ONGC-MRPL, will be completed by December 2014. The first two stories of the building will be inaugurated on March 18 next year, said Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas M Veerappa Moily. Mr Moily made an inspection of the on-going work in the new building of the hospital. Speaking to mediapersons during a

Mangalore, Jun 24: Mangalore City Police have arrested the main accused in the murder case of assistant bank manager Anjana who was strangled to death in Bejai-Kapikad in April this year. Mahesh, the boyfriend of Anjana, is the arrested person, who was nabbed in Gujarati City of Surat by the Urwa police and brought to Mangalore. Anjana had been working as assistant manager in the Katipalla branch