Karnataka

Ballari, Dec 20: A?senior manager of Karnataka Bank committed suicide by hanging himself in the bank at Meenakshi Circle here on Friday. According to the police, A?Krishnamurthy (51) was transferred to the Meenakshi Circle branch of Karnataka Bank three years ago. He was said to be under pressure as a few persons involved in mining had failed to repay the loan he had sanctioned. Krishnamurthy

Dubai, Dec 19: In a gut-wrenching tragedy, a safety engineer of a leading architecture and consultancy company in Dubai, fell to his death from a newly completed high rise building in Dubai Investment Park, Jebel Ali. The engineer was inspecting the safety features of the new building with two other engineers when he fell from the sixth floor of the building on Tuesday afternoon. Mohammed Shaheen

Mangaluru, Dec 19: The cutting of cake and singing of Christmas carols symbolically marked the beginning of Christmas celebrations for the year 2014 in the presence of Bishop of Mangaluru Diocese and others in a programme organised by the Catholic Sabha Mangalore Pradesh at Bishop's House, Kodialbail here on Friday. Conveying the message of Christmas to the gathering, Bishop of Mangaluru Diocese

Mangaluru, Dec 19: On a tip off given by the immigration authorities of, the officers of customs at Mangalore International Airport intercepted a female passenger and seized hidden gold ornaments weighing 749.900 grams valued at Rs 16,49,780 from her possession. The gold ornaments packed in two rectangular shaped packets wrapped in adhesive tape, were found concealed in the waist portion

Bangalore, Dec 19: In a heart-warming action, the heart of a brain dead child was airlifted from HAL Airport here to Chennai for transplantation after police created a "green corridor" to enable its unhindered transportation. The heart of the two years ten months old brain dead child was taken from Manipal Hospital here to a Chennai hospital to transplant it to a child aged two years and eight

Mangaluru, Dec 19: œHindutva ideology is strategically deemphasized by the Modi brigade in order to strengthen their stronghold on all the democratic institutions so that Hindu Nationalism may be firmly established within this country,  opined Prof. Anand Teltumbde, the key note speaker of the two-day UGC-sponsored national seminar on'Nationalism as a'Religion': Trends in India'. Speaking after

Lucknow, Dec 19: The Shiv Sena Monday warned that œit will not tolerate  the ghar wapsi planned by RSS-affiliate Dharm Jagran Samiti in Aligarh on December 25 as any such reconversion of Muslims œwill lead to genetic abnormalities in the Hindu community . The Uttar Pradesh unit of the party said the actual ghar wapasi would be by sending Muslims to Pakistan. œThe Hindu and Muslim cultures do not

Mangalore, Dec 19: CEO of Panambur Beach Tourism Development Project (PBTDP) and chairman of Karavali Utsav Beach Festival Committee Yathish Baikampady said that a beach festival would be organised as part of Karavali Utsav 2014-15, for a period of nine days starting from December 24. Briefing mediapersons at a press conference here on Friday, he said that events would be held at the Panambur

Mangaluru, Dec 19: Vinay Kumar Sorake, the Minister for Urban Development, has said that the Mangaluru City Corporation has not sent any proposal to the State government to upgrade the civic body as Greater Mangaluru City Corporation. Speaking at the winter session of the Legislative Council at Belagavi, the minister said that without a proposal from the corporation the state could not take any

New Delhi, Dec 19: From a Twitter account purported to be of Pakistan Army chief, Gen Raheel Sharif tweeted on Wednesday, "Asked PM Nawaz Sharif to hang all terrorists. More than 3,000 terrorists should be hanged in next 48 hours." A day later, Lashkar-e-Taiba's commander Zaki-ur Rahman Lakhvi was out on bail. Gen Sharif, who has frontally taken on the Taliban, is credited to have changed the army