Karnataka

Kasaragod, August 1: In a major crackdown on Inter-State smuggling of Indian-Made Foreign Liquor ahead of the Onam season, the Excise team on Tuesday seized 414.720 litres of the brew from a car at Manya, near here. On a tip-off, a team of sleuths from the Excise Department, led by Inspector K. B. Binu, seized 2,304 bottles of 180 ML capacity each, kept in 48 boxes from the car. The car sped away

Mangalore, August 1: C Manjula, Chief of the Karnataka State Women's Commission on Wednesday inspected the site of the homestay in Mangalore where the assault on young girls and boys was carried out by Hindutva activists. Speaking to media persons later, she said that the Commission has already condemned the attack. “I have come here to hold and inspection and to seek answers as to why such

Mangalore, August 1: In a heart-wrenching incident, an animal caretaker at a Dr Shivaram Karanth Biological Park in Pilikula, on the outskirts of the city was fatally mauled by an ailing tiger on Tuesday night. The caretaker, Kushalappa Gowda, 36, who suffered severe wounds during the attack, breathed his last while being taken to hospital. This is first time that a caretaker has come under fatal

Mangalore, August 1: Three days after five girls and nine boys were attacked at a homestay by vigilantes, the parents of one of the girls have taken her to their native place in Gujarat. A friend of the victim said she had left for Gujarat and she may discontinue studies in Mangalore. Another female victim, who was slapped by one of the vigilantes, has suffered an injury in her ear drum. “Though

Bangalore / Mangalore, August 1: Home Minister R Ashoka on Tuesday said the State government will book the accused in the homestay attack case in Mangalore under the Goonda Act, and it will not show any mercy to anybody while taking action. In Mangalore, police arrested three more men in connection with the attack on students at a homestay in Padil on Saturday, taking the total number of arrested

Mangalore, August 1: Leaders and workers of Congress party, activists and representatives of various organisations and hundreds other on Wednesday paid their last respects to former District Youth Congress chief Bondala Jagannath Shetty in the city. People in large numbers turned up to pay their tribute to the late leader whose mortal remains were kept in front of District Congress Office, here

Mangalore, July 31: A common factor in India and Israel is that people of both countries possess an innovative approach, said Orna Sagiv, Consul General of Israel. She was delivering a talk on Indo-Israel trade relations at the Kanara Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Mangalore, on Tuesday. Innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship ability are three things that Israeli people possess in

Mangalore, July 31: Sriramulu, the political heavyweight from Bellary, who will emerge as the next chief minister of Karnataka after elections, will ensure that incidents like pub attack and homestay attack are not repeated, said Girish Rai, Convenor of the Sriramulu Sankalpa Yatra convention to be held in Mangalore on August 2. Addressing media persons at Press Club in Mangalore on Monday, Mr

Mangalore, July 31: “I would think twice about enrolling my children in some of the colleges in Mangalore,'' Commissioner of Police and father of two children Seemant Kumar Singh said on Monday. Making this admission two days after vigilantes attacked young revellers at a birthday party, the Commissioner highlighted what he described as petty politicking and a heavily polarised environment. “This

Mangalore, July 31: Close on the heels of young boys and girls being attacked at a homestay birthday party in Padil by Hindutva activists, another incident of moral policing has been reported in the city on Tuesday. However, this time, it is the police themselves who donned the role 'moral policemen'. A group of students who were waiting for a bus at the city's service bus stand were made to