Karnataka

Mangaluru, Dec 5: In a huge relief for journalist-activist Naveen Soorinje, who was accused of not trying to stop the assailants during 2012 Manglauru home stay attack, the local sessions court has discharged him from all charges. The development comes nearly five years after the State government led by the then-chef minister Siddaramaiah decided to withdraw the case against Mr Soorinje, who was

Bengaluru, Dec 5: Saudi Arabia was keen to invest in the Indian food sector as India was one of the largest exporters of grains and vegetables to the desert kingdom, its ambassador to India Saud bin Mohammed Al-Sati said on Tuesday. "We are looking to invest in the Indian food sector, particularly in packaging, storage and transportation, as India is one of the largest exporters of food grains and

Mangaluru, Dec 5: A 26-year-old woman died after she was run over by a private bus at Guddeyangadi, near Panemangaluru, on the outskirts of the city, on Monday night. According to the Bantwal traffic police, Ruksana, 26, had gone along with her husband Atauallah and two children to buy grocery from a shop in their area. As the family was crossing the road around 8 p.m., a private city bus going

Bengaluru/Belagavi, Dec 5: Sagar Patil, 37, the only son of former MLA and four-time Belagavi city mayor Sambhaji Patil , fell to death from the door of a moving train in Srirampura, near Malleswaram, minutes after it left the KSR (Bengaluru City) railway station on Monday night. Bheemashankar S Gule d, superintendent of police (railways) said the incident occurred when Patil was returning to

Hubballi, Dec 5:The residents of Morab, around 30km from Hubballi, have refused to drink water from their village lake after an HIV-positive woman committed suicide by jumping into it a week ago. Unable to convince them, the authorities are now draining the water from the 36-acre lake — roughly the size of 25 football fields — which they hope to refill with water from the Malaprabha canal. The

Bengluru, Dec 4: A day after an audio clip triggered fresh charges of attempts by BJP to topple the HD Kumaraswamy ministry, the state Congress Tuesday said it would lodge a police complaint over the issue while asserting all MLAs of the party and its ruling partner JDS were with the government. On behalf of the KPCC, we are lodging a complaint to find out between whom the conversation took place

Bengaluru, Dec 4: Right-wing outfit Sanatan Sanstha on Tuesday accused the SIT probing the Gauri Lankesh murder case of "framing" it and distanced itself from the 18 people named as accused in connection with the crime. The Special Investigation Team (SIT) which has so far arrested 16 people with two still at large, had named an organised crime syndicate inspired by the Sanatan Sanstha in its

Bengaluru, Dec 4: Reiterating that the Karnataka Government is committed to implement total farm loan waiver, Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy announced that first instalment of loan waiver disbursement relating to Co-operative institutions will start from next week. Addressing newsmen after chairing a meeting of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha members from Karnataka, here on Tuesday, he said that

Bulandshahr, Dec 4: The local police have booked cases against members of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal today for the brutal murder of police inspector Subodh Kumar Singh during Monday during a violent protest staged by the Hindutva extremists in the name of cow in west Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr district. Bajrang Dal’s Bulandshahr district chief Yogesh Raj has

Bantwal, Dec 4: An elderly man who had served as a priest of Sri Panchalingeshwar temple at Vittla in Bantwal taluk for several years, committed suicide today by jumping into a well. 77-year-old Vasudeva Kedilaya, a resident of Vittla, was suffering from depression apart from age-related physical ailments, sources said. It is learnt that he had lost mental peace and retired from the service. A