Karnataka

Bangalore, Jun 26: In order to ensure speedy trial and conviction of those involved in crimes against women, such as the culprits in the Manipal gang-rape, the state government would soon set up 10 special courts exclusively to try cases relating to atrocities and crimes against women. Announcing this, Home Minister K?J?George has said that the government has already sent the proposal to the Chief

Jeddah, Jun 26: Major contractors in the Kingdom are requesting the government to extend the July 3 deadline to Nov. 4 (Muharram 1, 1435) so that more foreign workers will get enough time to correct their status. “There are huge numbers of workers still waiting for their turn to correct the status and the remaining few days will not be enough to handle them,” said Abdullah Ridwan, chairman of the

Mangalore, Jun 25: The protest against Manipal gang-rape by different organisations continued in Mangalore on Tuesday too. Members of the district unit of Communist Party of India (Marxist) staged a protest in front of the Deputy Commissioner's office in the city. Senior CPI(M) leader B Madhava said that even after the Delhi gang-rape incident, several incidents of sexual harassment on women had

Manipal, Jun 25: A day after unveiling the sketch of a suspect, police today released the CCTV footage of the abduction of a 22-year-old medical student of Manipal University in an autorikshaw by three persons, who gangraped her last week, and announced a reward of Rs 2 lakh for information leading to the arrest of the culprits. The footage has helped the police in identifying the design and model

New Delhi, Jun 25: Gujarat Police has obtained nearly 90,000 telephone call data records (CDRs) of people and entities in three months beginning January this year, raising eyebrows in central intelligence agencies. The unusually high number of CDRs of individual and entities were obtained by Gujarat Police citing various cases against them and for investigation purposes, official sources said

Mangalore, Jun 25: The students of Government Women's Balmatta, took out a protest march and staged a human-chain in the city on Tuesday to exert pressure on the state government to appoint lecturers in government PU colleges. The protest was held under the banner of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP). Holding saffron flags and placards the students marched from their college in Balmatta to

Doha, Jun 25: In order to cope with increasing number of passengers Air India Express would be introducing weekly two direct flights on Doha-Mangalore-Doha route with effect from July 29. Currently Air India Express is operating only one weekly flight on Friday between the above destinations. As per the present schedule every Friday the flight departs Doha at 10:30 a.m. and reaches Mangalore at 4

Banglore, Jun 25: A delegation of Welfare Party of India has met Karnataka home minister K J George and exhorted him to give justice to jailed PDP Abdun-Nasar Madani, who had been allegedly fixed by police in two major serial bomb blast cases. Madani was initially arrested in April 1998 in connection with Coimbatore serial blasts case. Police had called him as him as the mastermind of bomb blasts

Udupi, Jun 25: No nation can progress if it cannot provide security to its women, Pejawar mutt pontiff Shree Vishwesha Teertha Swamiji has said. Speaking to media persons, the Swamiji said that after Delhi and Bangalore, surfacing of an incident of sexual assault in Manipal as well has paved way for a feeling of insecurity for women in the entire country. Those behind the sexual assault must be

Udupi, Jun 25: A bachelor degree student reportedly ended his life on the railway tracks near Indrali in Udupi district on Monday evening. Yogesh Shetty (20) from Hebri is the youth who committed suicide. The incident is said to have occurred at about 7.30 p.m. at Kukkikatte railway tracks near Indrali. The body was discovered by locals and handed over to the Udupi town police, who arrived at the