Karnataka

Mangalore, Apr 18: A 25-year-old working woman was allegedly strangled to death in her boy-friend's room at Bejai-Kapikad in Mangalore. The victim has been identified as Anjana, who was working as assistant manager at Katipalla branch of Syndicate Bank. A native of Kerala, Anjana was staying in the bank quarters at Gandhinagar. Anjana had gone missing since last Wednesday and her mother had filed

Mangalore, Apr 18: Popular support for Congress party has grown twofold this time and the party will come to power with a thumping majority in the upcoming Assembly elections, Veerappa Moily, Union Petroleum Minister has said. He was speaking to media persons during his visit to the Congress party's Mangalore (South) Assembly constituency election office in the city on Thursday. Mr. Moily said

Mangalore, Apr 18: Congress will bag at least 130-135 out of the 224 Assembly seats in the state, Ibrahim Kodijal, Interim District President of the Congress party has said. Addressing media persons at the district party office in Mangalore on Thursday, Mr. Ibrahim said that people are fed up of BJP's maladministration. Exit polls and media surveys have already shown that Congress will reign

Riyadh, Apr 18: Saudi Arabia will take new steps, including jail terms for small business owners and the hiring of 1,000 inspectors, to crack down on foreigners working illegally in the world's top oil exporter, Labour Minister Adel al-Fakieh said. “We have and will continue to have millions of foreign workers. We have 7.5 million legal foreign workers and we need them,” Mr. Fakieh told the Saudi

Mangalore, Apr 18: It is unfortunate to see BJP's internal conflicts and loopholes being focused while its achievements in the five year tenure are being completely sidelined, said MLC Capt. Ganesh Karnik. Briefing about the party's poll preparations at a media conference in the city on Thursday Mr Karnik claimed that BJP government stressed on enhancing the level of education in the state like no

Mangalore, Apr 18: N Yogish Bhat, BJP's candidate for Mangalore (South) Assembly constituency has accused his Congress counterpart J R Lobo of filing a “false affidavit” while submitting his nomination papers. Addressing media persons at a news conference at the district BJP office in Mangalore on Thursday, Mr. Bhat said that a certain N R Rai from Alsoor in Bangalore had filed a case before the

Mangalore, Apr 18: Preparations are in full swing for the three-day 'Ramotsav' being organised on the occasion of Ram Navami at Nehru Maidan from Friday onwards, said vice-president of state Vishwa Hindu Parishad M B Puranik. Speaking at a press meet here on Thursday, he said that the 'Ramotsav' celebrations were being held annually for the twelfth year now. The values and principles followed

Mumbai, Apr 18: Gold prices continued their southward journey, hitting nearly 20-month low at the bullion market here Wednesday on steady selling by stockists and investors despite positive global cues. Silver also reflected the weak sentiment and plunged below the Rs 46,000 per kg mark on speculative selling pressure. Standard gold of 99.5 percent purity declined by Rs 220 to end at Rs 25,680 per

New Delhi, Apr 18: The Supreme Court Thursday cancelled all leases for iron ore extraction in 49 category C mines in Bellary, Tumkur and Chitradurga districts of Karnataka. The apex court forest bench headed by Justice Aftab Alam said the proceeds from the sale of iron ore extracted from category C mines would stand forfeited and would go to special purpose vehicle constituted for the reclamation

Mangalore, Apr 18: Ministry of External Affairs has mooted several changes to the passport as to bring in enhanced security feature. In this direction, as per the changes proposed by the Ministry of External Affairs, the new Indian passports will henceforth contain phantom images of the passport holder in addition to the photographs currently appearing in the documents. Confirming this, Indian