Karnataka

Mangaluru, Jan 1: Senior IPS officer S Murugan took charge as the Commissioner of Mangaluru City Police Commissionerate on Thursday. His predecessor R Hitendra, who was transferred to the IGP headquarters in Bengaluru, handed over the charge to Murugan at the Office of Police Commissioner, here. Speaking to media persons after assuming power, he said that he had first hand idea about Mangaluru as

Mangaluru, Jan 1: IAS officer Hephsiba Rani Korlapati took charge as the Commissioner of the Mangaluru City Corporation on Thursday. Speaking to media after assuming charge, she said it would require at least two weeks to assess various issues related to the civic body. She said she would make all efforts to ensure proper delivery of services of the city corporation to the people as per law. œI

Riyadh, Jan 1: The Indian Embassy in Riyadh has announced its new outsourcing agency for consular, passport and visa services in the Kingdom including the Riyadh region and the Eastern Province for its nationals. Indian Embassy spokesperson Hifzur Rahman said on Wednesday: œThe embassy has awarded a new contract to VFS GCC LLC for outsourcing its consular services in Riyadh (Batha), Jeddah

Mangaluru, Jan 1: Thieves broke into a house located in Kapikad near Thokottu in Ullal police station limits in the wee hours of Wednesday and made away with cash and gold weighing 15 sovereigns. The house which was robbed in Kapikad belonged to Madhava Poojary. The theft was discovered on Wednesday morning. According to reports, the thieves entered the house through the ventilator in the rear

Dubai, Jan 1: The Indian Government has urged its citizens living abroad to opt for new machine readable passports in accordance with the International Civil Aviation Organizations plan to phase out all non-machine readable passports in 2015. The Indian mission in the UAE have also urged Indian citizens to check the validity of their passports and the remaining number of blank pages to ensure that

Dubai, Jan 1: A dazzling show of New Year's eve gala using 70,000 LED bulbs around the world's tallest building Burj Khalifa here has broken the Guinness World Record of the 'Largest LED-Illuminated Facade'. The never-before-seen show of fireworks, Light Emitting Diode lights and laser beam displays became one of the world's most-watched New Year's Eve spectacle with residents and visitors from

Kollam, Jan 1: Tragedy struck as six engineering students returning after New Year revelry were killed when their car and an LPG tanker collided in the wee hours of the day at nearby Chathannur. The deceased were identified as Ajith Prakash, Syed Inzamam, Arun Babu, Shijo George John, Adirshah and Nixon. According to police, the victims, all men in third year of B.Tech, were heading to their

Udupi, Jan 1: A group of people who were travelling from Mangaluru to Goa allegedly vandalised a petrol bunk at Kota on NH 17 in Udupi district on Tuesday night over a minor scuffle with the staff working at the pump. The Kota police said that a group of 30 persons stopped at the petrol pump at Kota at around 8.30 p.m., alighted from their tourist bus and used the toilet maintained by the pump

Mysuru, Jan 1: Five persons from Karnataka, wanted in a cyber fraud case in Hyderabad were recently arrested in Mysuru by personnel from the Cyber Crime Wing of Hyderabad. Panniraj Gowda of Siddhartha Nagar, Puttaraj, Mahesh Chikkaiah, R?M?Chaman and Dadapeer are the accused. According to the police, Panniraj floated the Likka Group of Companies at Hyderabad, becoming the managing director, while

Mangaluru, Jan 1: The coastal city erupted in a blaze of colour and light at midnight as the world ushered in the New Year in style. Hundreds of people, most of them youngsters, thronged to main road in the last moments of 2014 to witness the celebrations amidst fireworks. Spirit of the crowd rose as midnight approached and crackers made the sky colourful as the clock struck 12 midnight. People