Karnataka

Mangaluru, Jun 15: Sleuths of Bajpe police station have arrested five persons for alleged theft and illegal transport of cattle. The police have also recovered 16 head of cattle. According to the police, acting on a tip-off, a police team stopped on Wednesday a Tempo Traveller and found 12 head of cattle in it. The police further checked a sports utility car and found four head of cattle in it

Bengaluru, Jun 15: The continuation of D H Shankaramurthy as Legislative Council Chairman will depend on the JD(S). The Council on Tuesday had admitted a notice by the ruling Congress seeking to move a resolution to remove Shankaramurthy. The resolution (commonly referred to as no-confidence motion) against Shankaramurthy will be taken up immediately after question hour on Thursday. To oust the

Mangaluru, Jun 14: The prohibitory orders clamped on four taluks of Dakshina Kannada district in the wake of recurrence of communal violence in Kalladka town of Bantwal, have been extended till June 21. Deputy Commissioner Dr K J Jagadeesha had clamped Section 144 under Criminal Procedure Code from June 13 midnight to June 14 midnight in Bantwal, Belthangady, Puttur and Sullia taluks that fall

Lucknow, Jun 14: In an apparent damage control bid following attacks on the dalits in parts of the state and get rid of the 'anti-dalit' tag on his government, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday had lunch with the dalits at a village in his home district of Gorakhpur, about 275 kilometres from here. The venue of the feast, which was attended by around 150 members of the

Patna, Jun 14: Love knows no bounds. This age-old adage was amply evident in a bizarre love story in Bihar where a woman constable was smitten by the charm of a most wanted criminal Mithu Shah. The constable, who married the criminal, has been sacked from police service for bringing disrepute to her profession. The woman cop, Preeti Kumari, was posted as an arms guard in the Mahila police station

Dubai, Jun 14: A 52-year-old Indian national, who has been illegaly living in the deserts of Saudi Arabia for 24 years, will soon return to India after the government announced a 90-day amnesty period, according to a media report. Gana Prakasam Rajamariyan came to Saudi Arabia in August 1994 to work as a farm-hand in a remote village in Hail province. Rajamariyan, hailing from Kanyakumari in Tamil

Udupi, Jun 14: A man escaped narrowly from being hurt after his mobile telephone got burnt here on Tuesday. Manjunath, who runs a general store at Katapadi, had kept his mobile telephone in the pocket of his trousers and was riding his motorbike with his wife as pillion rider to the railway station here. But he suddenly felt a warm feeling in his pocket and saw smoke coming out of it at Indrali

Kasaragod, Jun 14: A youth was killed when the car he was driving rammed a roadside building at Anangoor here in the early hours of Tuesday. Muhammed Basith, 24, died on the spot after he reportedly lost control of the vehicle and hit an ESI dispensary building around 2 a.m.There was drizzle in the area at the time, police sources here said. Fire and Rescue Services personnel who rushed to the

Mangaluru, Jun 14: At least two policemen also suffered injuries during Tuesday’s violence in communally sensitive town of Kalladka in Bantwal taluk of Dkashina Kannada district. The clash erupted in the town following a verbal altercation among youths of two different communities. According to P Harishekaran, Inspector-General of Police (Western Range), said that Rakshith, PSI, Bantwal Town

Bengaluru, Jun 14: Energy Minister D K Shivakumar on Tuesday admitted that the state government is not willing to take action against farmers who are illegally using irrigation pump (IP) sets, as the Assembly elections are fast nearing. “Let me admit that there are a large number of illegal pump sets. It has become a big ‘dhanda’ in the state. But, we cannot take action against them in this