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Bangalore, Jan 13: A 23-year-old forlorn youth tried to kill himself in front of the chief minister's home office “Krishna” on Sunday after failing to meet Siddaramaiah apparently to seek solutions for himself and society. Basavaraj, from Chitradurga district, was found in an unconscious condition by a passerby near Windsor Manor junction, off “Krishna” around 12:45 pm. He was rushed to hospital

Mangalore, Jan 12: Minister for forest, environment and ecology and Dakshina Kananada district-in-charge B Ramanath Rai said that next year onwards Karavali Utsav will be organized with grandeur and the event will be inaugurated on the last Friday of the last month every year. He was speaking at the inaugural ceremony of Karavali Utsava - 2014, organised by the district administration, which was

Bangalore, Jan 12: Karnataka Governor H R Bhardwaj today said the BJP does not have the courage to approach him over the matter of corruption. "BJP does not have courage to come to me," he told reporters here on the sidelines of convocation of Tumkur University when he was asked about BJP leaders demanding his intervention to urge Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to drop "tainted" D K Shivakumar and

Mangalore, Jan 12: “There is need for more researches and inventions of medical treatment in the field of psychology. Since the psychiatric patients and families are ill-treated in society with the thinking of curse, there is need to change the social mind sets”, said N Vinay Hegde, Chancellor, NITTE university. He was speaking after inaugurating the international seminar on 'Psychopharminar –

Mangalore, Jan 12: People of different age groups and different walks of life thronged from BEM High School here on Sunday to register themselves as the members of the Aam Aadmi Party during its membership drive programme. In all, as many as 410new members were registered in the two-hour drive, while more than 700 people participated in the informal gathering that supplemented the drive. The new

Bangalore, Jan 12: The Karnataka unit of the Aam Aadmi Party has launched 'Nanoo Janasaamaanya' (Main Bhee Aam Aadmi) campaign in the state as part of the party's national membership drive. Addressing a press conference in?Bangalore on?Saturday, AAP?National Executive member Prithvi Reddy said the process of nominations of candidates for the 28 Lok?Sabha constituencies in the state was also

Mangalore, Jan 12: Deputy Commissioner of Dakshina Kannada and administrator of Mangalore City Corporation AB Ibrahim has suggested horizontal growth of the Mangalore city for the development of infrastructures and to avoid the conjunction. He was reacting to the memorandum handed over by the Kanara Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Mangalore demanding change in hiked trade licence fees under

Washington, Jan 12: A Texas hunting club on Saturday auctioned off a permit to kill a black rhinoceros in Namibia, raising $350,000 (Dh1.29 million) towards conservation efforts for the animal, but not without controversy. The Dallas Safari Club, which said all money would be given to Namibia for “anti-poaching patrols, habitat protection, research and other measures crucial for protecting

Mangalore, Jan 12: Unable to bear the burden of increasing price of Liquefied Petroleum Gas, both men and women members of different families took to the streets in Mangalore and staged a novel protest on Saturday. The protest was organized by Gas and Ration Users Forum, Mangalore, in association with Praja Vikas Seva Trust. Raising slogans against union government, the protesters gathered in

Udupi, Jan 12: In an apparent attempt to create communal disturbance in the region, unidentified miscreants have distributed the pamphlets containing obscene photographs of a young couple that had appeared in Facebook earlier this week. Besides obscene images of a Parkala based girl in compromising position with her lover Mohammed Yasir, from Katapady village who is now in police custody, the