Karnataka

Mangalore/Udupi, Jun 9: The rains that lashed over undivided DK districts from Saturday afternoon continued even on Sunday, largely keeping people indoors. Due to the heavy rains, Mangalore city witnessed traffic jams due to waterlogged roads. Rao and Rao Circle, MG Road, Kankanady and several places witnessed water gushing over the streets. Caving of a hillock on the pass connecting PVS to

Mangalore, Jun 9: Dakshina Kannada District Working Journalists' Association has submitted a memorandum to district in-charge minister B Ramanath Rai, requesting him to take steps to withdraw cases registered against the scribes in connection to the homes stay attack. The Association members have said in the memorandum that the scribes were at spot only to deliver their duty, which has been

Mangalore, Jun 9: The first all-female batch of students pursuing Diploma Education in Arabic Language (DEAL) passed out from Hidayah-Mesco Arabic Academy, Mangalore, on the occasion of its first graduation day ceremony, which was held on Saturday. The ceremony was held in Indian Medical Association hall, near Milagres Church in the city. On the occasion, 23 female students received their diploma

Bangalore, Jun 9: A few days after six-year-old Rakshita sustained extensive burns after coming in contact with a live wire in her house in Sunkatakatte, a 30-year-old woman constable died after being electrocuted at her residence in Kamakshipalya on Friday night. S. Chandrakala, a native of Mulbagal in Kolar district, had joined service in 2008 and was working in the Basaveshwaranagar police

Chennai, Jun 9: Nearly 200 skilled and unskilled labourers from Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh are stranded in Saudi Arabia after their Bangladeshi employer cheated them. The workers said they were promised jobs in a plastic factory, but were made to clean toilets. Sources at the Indian mission in Saudi Arabia said the Indians travelled to Dammam after paying

Hyderabad, Jun 8: Karnataka Chief Minister K Siddaramaiah called on his Andhra Pradesh counterpart N Kiran Kumar Reddy here this evening. "It was a courtesy call and both the Chief Ministers discussed various issues of mutual interest," a press release from the Chief Minister's office here said. Andhra Pradesh PCC president Botsa Satyanarayana and ministers Anam Ramanarayana Reddy, N Raghuveera

Mangalore, Jun 8: A felicitation programme for newly appointed ministers in the state cabinet and elected representatives for the State Assembly as well as Mangalore City Corporation, was organized by Jam'iyathul Falah, DK and Udupi, at the JF Community Centre in Kankanady, Mangalore on Saturday. Delivering the main address on the occasion, Abdussalam Puthige, Editor-in-chief, Vartha Bharathi

Mangalore Jun 8: Students' Federation of India (SFI) has requested the newly formed Congress government to pay attention to education system in state and cleanse it from the results of various experimentation done by the former BJP government. Addressing the press here on Saturday, Ananth Kumar, Sate President, SFI, said that nearly 46 associates of SFI have been arrested throughout the State on

Mangalore, Jun 8: A person found to be smuggling gold from Dubai has been nabbed by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) officials on Saturday, at Mangalore International Airport. The officials have seized 12 gold chains weighing 200 grams, estimated to cost Rs 5 lac in total, from a person named Sanaulla (48), a resident of Bhatkal. The accused who flew to Mangalore from Dubai by Jet

Bangalore, Jun 8: A private complaint has been filed before the Special Lokayukta Court against Karnataka Wakf Minister Qamar-ul Islam accusing him of illegally acquiring Wakf properties in Gulbarga. Complainant Tabrez Pasha submitted documents to the court alleging that Qamar-ul Islam illegally acquired a little over eight acres of Wakf land in Bandepura. The land was granted to Khwaja Bande