Karnataka

Bengaluru, Oct 29: High drama prevailed outside the house of Duniya Vijay’s first wife, Nagarathna, in Katriguppe on Sunday morning when the police went there to arrest her on the charge of assault on the actor’s second wife, Keerthi Gowda. In her complaint, Keerthi Gowda alleged that Nagarathna hit her with a slipper at her house in Hosakerehalli and provided CCTV footage in which the entire

Bantwal, Oct 29: A schoolboy has been assaulted by a group of miscreants for resisting their alleged sexual advances at Kallaje village near Kadeshwalya in Bantwal taluk of Dakshina Kannada district. 11-year-old Abdullah (name changed) was admitted to the government hospital in Bantwal after the attack which created a mild tension in the village. The police have launched an investigation into the

Bengaluru, Oct 29: Several media giants, who participated in the panel discussion on ‘Fake News: Whose lie is it anyway?’ during the Bangalore Literature Festival on Sunday, expressed grave concern over the menace. Pratik Sinha, co-founder of AltNews, an online fact-checking website, stressed on the role of social media in the spread of fake news. He said the broader issue was that of the excess

Kalaburgi, Oct 29: A herd of sheep and goats was mowed down by a train near Sedam town in Kalaburagi under Central Railway limits on Sunday evening. According to information reaching here, more than 100 goats and sheep were crossing the railway line when the Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Express mowed them down in the evening. Eye witnesses said that five shepherds were grazing hundreds of sheep at

Bengaluru, Oct 29: A 20-month-old boy was charred to death while his five-year-old brother is battling for life after their father poured petrol on them and set them ablaze before attempting to immolate himself at their house at Talaghattapura, here in the wee hours of Sunday. Domestic row is said to be the reason behind the man’s extreme step. Srinivas Murthy (35), an electrician, suffered 40%

Mysuru, Oct 29: A toddler who had sustained burn injuries after falling into a hot water tub on October 10 succumbed at a city hospital on Sunday. Aadya, one-year-old daughter of Mahadevaswamy, a resident of Kollegal, had accidentally fallen in a hot water tub at her residence. The hot water was kept in the tub for bathing the toddler. She was immediately rushed to a Mysuru hospitalwhere she had

Mangaluru, Oct 29: The felling of trees as part of road construction work between Kannagudde and Saripalla by the Mangaluru City Corporation has evoked protest from the green activists. The MCC had sought permission from the Southern Railway as a portion of the land on which the road passes through belongs to the Railways. It was a long pending demand of the Kannagudde and Saripalla residents. On

Shivamogga/Bengaluru, Oct 29: Chief minister H D Kumaraswamy kicked off a three-day campaign on Sunday in BJP state president B S Yeddyurappa’s turf Shivamogga, to propel the prospects of party candidate Madhu Bangarappa. The CM will also campaign for Congress candidate V S Ugrappa in Ballari on October 31, party sources said. The JD(S) and Congress are facing bypolls together but the CM had so

Bengaluru, Oct 29: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan paid a visit to ailing Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs H N Ananth Kumar who is reportedly battling against cancer in a private hospital in the city today. Mr Ananth Kumar, a close confidant of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was shifted back from a foreign hospital early last week and party sources

Ballari, Oct 28: Former deputy chief minister and BJP veteran K S Eshwarappa, who is known for using unconstitutional words against words, this time called Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy a “political goonda.” Inaugurating a BJP workers’ convention in the town on Saturday, the Shivamogga City MLA said: “Kumaraswamy is like a villain in movies. He is a political goonda.” “Kumaraswamy had said that