Karnataka

Bangalore, Dec 22: Social welfare department will pay Rs 131 crore towards tuition fees of SC/ST students since 2004, who had paid the entire amount during their study days in professional courses. Briefing reporters, Social Welfare Minister H?Anjaneya said successive governments had failed to pay tuition fees to engineering and medical colleges. “As a result, several SC/ST students had paid the

Bangalore, Dec 22: The Janata Dal?(Secular) seems to be struggling to find the right candidates for at least 18 parliamentary seats in Karnataka, while the two prime parties, the Congress and the BJP,?are facing a fierce scramble for party tickets for the 2014 Lok Sabha election. The JD(S) began its exercise of scouting around for winnable candidates in Bangalore on Saturday. Party supremo H?D

Ankola, Dec 21: In a shocking incident, unknown miscreants gunned down a co-operative sector leader at Ankola in Uttara Kannada district on Saturday afternoon. R?N?Nayak, 57, was getting into his car near the head office of his Dwaraka Credit Co-operative Society Limited on K?C?Road when he was shot. The bullet fired by one of the attackers broke through the glass pane of the right side rear

Mangalore, Dec 21: Sameer (24) from Katipalla, Iqbal (21) and Haris (21) from Deralakatte, Harshad (18) Rauoof (22) and Shamsuddin (25) from Surathkal, Navaz (25) from Mudipu, Nisar (18) from Natekal. If you think that these are the names of achievers in any field, you are absolutely wrong. These are the names eight accused who were arrested by Mangalore police on Saturday in connection with a

Mangalore, Dec 21: Former chief minister DV Sadananda Gowda said that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will hold a mass protest in Mangalore on January 2, against central government's move of banning areca-nut. He said that over 50,000 areca-nut growers and party workers will carry out a rally from Jyothi Circle and later a protest meet will be held at Nehru Maidan, Mangalore. “More than five lakh

Kasargod, Dec 21: Two people were killed and two others sustained severe injuries in a ghastly road mishap occurred on a national highway near Kumble in Kasargod district on Saturday morning. The tragedy took place when six members of a family were returning home in their car after participating in a Swalat programme held in Bayar. When the driver turned the car to the extreme left in a bid to

Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 21: The Election Commission has recommended to the Law Ministry to treat all paid news as an electoral offence since it had been causing "maximum damage" to the electoral process, Chief Election Commissioner V S Sampath today said. "Corruption implications of paid news has its impact on every one... media, candidates and people and it is one that causes maximum damage to

Mangalore, Dec 21: The fourth additional district and sessions court that held 'Cyanide' Mohan Kumar guilty in three murder cases, sentenced him to death on Saturday. Noting that the case falls under the rarest of rare category, judge BK Naik observed that Mohan committed the act aware of the consequences. The death sentence will be carried out after confirmation from the high court. The court has

Mangalore, Dec 21: Opposing union government's order asking domestic LPG users to get their Aadhaar numbers linked compulsory to their bank accounts and distributors to get subsidy under the Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) scheme, members of Communist Party of India (CPI) on Monday staged a stir in front of Deputy Commissioner's office, Mangalore. The party also took objection to the proposed ban on

Moodbidri, Dec 21: While literature and culture has been the heart of the 'Alva's Vishwa Nudi Viraasat', there is a separate world of agriculture, which has been juxtaposed here. A state-level 'Krishi Mela' organized by Alva's Foundation in collaboration with Shri Dharmasthala Gramabhivriddhi Yojana has been a treat for eyes. The platform aptly named after the pioneer of white revolution Dr