Karnataka

Bangalore, Mar 20: Election Commission of India on Wednesday announced a single-phase poll in Karnataka to be held on May 5. Counting will take place on May 8. The term of the Karnataka assembly ends on June 3. Announcing the dates, Chief Election Commissioner VS Sampath said that Karnataka will go for a single-phase assembly election May 5. CEC Sampath said the counting of votes will take place

Bijapur, Mar 20: Campus Front of India (CFI) Karnataka held its State delegates' conference in Aadil Shahi hall in Bijapur City. This conference themed as students struggle conference elected Iqbal Bellare from Dakshina Kannada as the State President of the organization. Waseemullah Shariff of Ramnagaram has been elected as the State General Secretary. Syed Suhail and MD Thafseer were elected as

New York, Mar 20: NASA chief Charles Bolden has advice on how to handle a large asteroid headed toward New York City: Pray. That's about all the United States - or anyone for that matter - could do at this point about unknown asteroids and meteors that may be on a collision course with Earth, Bolden told lawmakers at a U.S. House of Representatives Science Committee hearing on Tuesday. An asteroid

Mangalore, Mar 20: Obsoleteness of Police Act of 1861, which is still followed without necessary amendments, is the biggest challenge faced by the department. Speaking about this Inspector General of Police (Western Range) Pratap Reddy, after inaugurating a one-day workshop on 'Human Rights Advocacy' organised by Department of Political Science, St Aloysius College (Autonomous), here on Wednesday

Dubai, Mar 20: Emirates India Fraternity Forum (EIFF) with the help of authorities of UAE government and Indian Consulate in Dubai managed to repatriate the body of an Indian expatriate who died after a road accident in Dubai. Shamsuddeen (27), son of Muhammad Soofi C H and Sauda, from Bellare, Sullia in Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka died due to head injury with intracranial hemorrhage

Mangalore, Mar 20: Karnataka Janatha Party leader V Dhananjay Kumar lashed out at the political leaders of Dakshina Kannada district for following the directions of RSS leader Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat. Addressing a press meet on Tuesday after inaugurating the new party office in the coconut garden in Nanthoor, here, the former union minister alleged that all leaders of Dakshina Kannada were puppets

Lucknow, Mar 20: In a tragic incident late on Tuesday night, eight children were killed and over a dozen injured when a speeding truck overturned at Nagla Patwari near the bypass in Aligarh, 335 km from Lucknow, police said. The deceased have been identified as Imran (five months), Akram (3), Kausar (7), Shabana (10), Khushboo (5), Zareena (8), Suhail (5) and Hazra (5). The dead include five

Udupi, Mar 20: The Lokayukta police trapped a geologist while accepting a bribe in his chamber at the office of the Department of Mines and Geology located in the District Officer Complex here. According to M Vittaldas Pai, Deputy Superintendent of Lokayukta Police, Girish Mohan, the geologist, was approached by Sandeep Kotian from Herga over renewal of his sand-mining permit. Mohan Allegedly

Mangalore, Mar 20: A prominent Christian priest was convicted of forging documents and sentenced to three years in prison. The second additional chief judicial magistrate (CJM) judge Bhavya on Tuesday pronounced verdict against Devaraj Bangera, former Bishop of Church of South India (CSI) Karnataka Southern Diocese. The Bishop had produced fake documents reportedly issued by the Kasargod

Mangalore, Mar 20: Dakshina Kannada District-in-Charge Minister C T Ravi expressed his unhappiness about the poor implementation of housing schemes in the district. He directed the Tahshildars of every taluk to identify land to distribute sites to the poor. Ravi was addressing the tri-monthly KDP meeting at Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat, here on Monday. Earlier, the officials informed that 25