Karnataka

New Delhi, May 6: The Congress high command is keen on appointing a Lingayat leader as the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president. Water Resources Minister M B Patil, who was on the top of the list prepared by the party for appointment as KPCC chief, has communicated to the top brass that he is willing to take up the responsibility if he is allowed to continue as minister, sources

Bengaluru, May 6: A woman shot her husband thrice after both had a verbal spat while they were driving down the Hosur road in Tamil Nadu. The couple, apparently, had consumed alcohol during lunch and both were in an inebriated condition when the verbal altercation took place. After being spot, the man Sairam managed to get down from the car near Veerasandra and board a Bengaluru Metropolitan

Bengaluru, May 5: Even as the BJP top brass are trying to finalize the list of winnable candidates for the upcoming Karnataka assembly polls, names of two hardline Hindutva leaders have emerged as potential saffron party candidates for Mangaluru South and Udupi constituencies that are currently in Congress fold. Besties Eternal: NaMo Naresh and Sulibele cracking a saffron joke (file photo) If

Chandigarh, May 5: A Muslim IAS-IPS couple in Himachal Pradesh has displayed an extraordinary character by deciding to ‘adopt’ the younger daughter of martyr Paramjit Singh who was beheaded by Pakistani soldiers in Poonch sector in J&K this week. The couple has pledged to bear all expenses of the martyr’s 11-year old daughter Khushdeep Kaur from schooling to marriage. 2010 batch HP cadre IAS

Bengaluru, May 5: A 22-year-old ad film actor from Bengaluru was killed in an early morning road accident at Natrampalli in Tamil Nadu’s Vellore district today, police said. Rekha Sindu was killed on the spot when the driver of the car she was travelling "dozed off" and rammed the vehicle into the median, Natrampalli police said. The incident happened on the busy Chennai-Bengaluru highway and

Mangaluru, May 5: The carelessness of the elders claimed the life of a three-year-old girl child at Haradi village on the outskirts of Puttur twon in Dakshina Kannada district. The victim has been identified as Rahmath (3), daughter of Imran, a resident of Ullal, who is currently working in a gulf country. Imran’s wife Shamsheera on Wednesday visited her parental house in Haradi along with her two

New Delhi, May 5: The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the death penalty awarded to four persons in the rape cum murder of 23 year old girl on December 16, 2012 in Delhi. A three- judge bench presided over by Justice Dipak Misra said the devilish manner in which the crime was committed was humanly inconceivable and it has shaken the collective conscience of the society. "We are compelled to hold

New Delhi, May 5: An unruly passenger may land in a National No-Fly List for three months to two years or more for offences ranging from verbal abuse to murderous assault with the Government on Friday unveiling a draft rule to deal with such fliers. The Ministry of Civil Aviation's (MoCA) move to amend the existing Civil Aviation Requirement (CAR) on 'Handling Unruly/Disruptive Passengers' came

Mangaluru, May 5: Dakshina Kannada district police have solved a blind murder case within four days and arrested six persons including a married temple priest, who hatched the murder plan to avert the wedding of a woman, whom he loved without her knowledge. The arrests were made on Thursday, four days after the charred remains of a body was found at Avekki on the Dharmasthala-Patrame Road on April

Mangaluru, May 5: A young businessman lost his life and another suffered severe injuries when the car in which they were travelling plunged off the road and landed in a gorge at Boliyaru Padil on the outskirts of the city on Friday. The victim has been identified as Muhammad Yusuf (38), son of Aboobakar, a resident of Kadambar near Manjeshwar. He was running a business in Manjeshwar. Co-passenger