Karnataka

Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 22: Two weeks after Maoists and police exchanged fire in Wayanad, a Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) outlet and two offices of the Forest department were today attacked by suspected Maoists in Palakkad and Wayanad districts. No one was injured in any of these attacks which occurred in the early hours today, police said. Billboards and the group's posters calling for armed

Mangaluru, Dec 22: A complaint has been lodged at Panambur police station accusing a private company accountant of fraud to the tune of Rs 94.81 lakhs by creating a fake back account. The accused Haridas Salian was working as a head accountant at a company called Dicks Engineering Project Service Private Limited located in Panambur, on the outskirts of the city. The owner of the company Devananda

Riyadh, Dec 22: Three Indians on death row in Saudi Arabia for the murder of their compatriot have been saved from being executed after an Indian businessman paid nearly $133,200 (Dh489,243) in blood money on their behalf. The three convicts, Fasal Iritti, 35, Mustafa Kunnath, 33, and M Shakeer, 36, all natives of Kerala, were released from Al Hair prison in Riyadh where they had been awaiting

Mangaluru, Dec 22: Pandeshwar police have arrested three accused including a minor in connection with extorting a mobile phone and gold chain from Nagesh D at Bal Bhavan Park near the service bus in the city stand last Thursday. The arrested are Ganesh Poojary alias Ganesh (29) from Nelacchil site in Kulavoor village in Kuppepadavu, Sheikh Mohammed Farhan alias Farhan (16) from Kolya Bypass and

Tumakuru, Dec 22: Buddhist spiritual guru Dalai Lama has said that ethics should be included in university education so that youth are driven to the right path. Inaugurating the international conference on 'Ethics in the New Millennium: Buddhist Perspectives' organized by Tumkur University and the Sera Jey Monastry of Bylakuppe, a Tibetan refugee camp in Karnataka, the Tibet's spiritual leader

New Delhi, Dec 22: People have only 10-days left to exchange currency notes of various denominations, including 500 and 1,000, which were printed before 2005. The deadline for exchanging the pre-2005 notes is January 1, 2015. The Reserve Bank has so far shredded 144.66 crore such notes valued at Rs 52,855 crore since the launch of the drive to take out the pre-2005 notes from the circulation. Post

Kasaragod, Dec 22: A mighty wild buffalo, part of a herd which had been wrecking crops near forests, was trapped by local people at Kidoor, near Kumbla in Kasaragod district on Sunday. The animal was caught alive using a trap made of plastic rope as it strayed into a private land at Kidoor early in the day. The rampaging animal was tamed after two hours of efforts by the local people, Forest

Mangaluru, Dec 22: As an effort to promote government doctors to serve in rural areas, Minister for Health and Family Welfare U T Khader hinted that the State government would offer more salary to rural doctors than doctors in City in coming days. Speaking at the sidelines of sensitisation programme for the staff nurses at RAPCC Hall here on Sunday, he said that according to the plan which is in

Udupi, Dec 22: The Animal Welfare Board of India has lodged as many as 21 non-cognisable complaints and an FIR at Karkala Rural police station in connection with the Kambala held at Baradi in Karkala taluk. A total of 130 pairs of buffaloes took part in the traditional sport held on Saturday. Additional Superintendent of Police Annamalai said that the FIR?had been lodged against Kambala organisers

Bhopal, Dec 22: Asserting that the whole world was once inhabited by Hindus, VHP leader Pravin Togadia Sunday declared that the right-wing organisation will ensure that the population of Hindus in the country increases from 82 per cent to 100 per cent. Addressing a convention organised in Bhopal as part of the golden jubilee year celebrations of the VHP, Togadia alleged that conversions to