Karnataka

Mangalore, Dec 11: The Popular Front of India (PFI) is responsible for the recent attack on a journalist at Vittla on the outskirts of the city, said Dakshina Kannada unit of People's Union for Civil Liberties. The PUCL was in possession of an audio recording in which an attacker claims to be a member of the PFI, said the fact-finding committee of the PUCL, consisting of its president P.B. D'sa

Bangalore, Dec 11: Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister T.B. Jayachandra has said that the Karnataka State Human Rights Commission (KSHRC) will have a new chairperson on December 17. He announced this here on Tuesday after a group of human rights and Right to Information activists staged a protest against the post lying vacant for long (nearly 18 months), as the Minister got up to speak at a

New Delhi, Dec 11: In a jolt to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgenders and gay rights activists, the Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the constitutional validity of the penal provision making gay sex an offence punishable with upto life imprisonment. A bench of justices G.S. Singhvi and S.J. Mukhopadhaya set aside the Delhi High Court's verdict which had in 2009 decriminalised gay sex among

Mangalore, Dec 11: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has renewed the aerodrome license of Mangalore International Airport (MIA) for further two years and will now be valid up to December 15, 2015. The DGCA has issued this license after stringent and regular safety check of the airport. J T Radhakrishna, airport director, MIA said the DGCA normally issues aerodrome license to

Mangalore, Dec 11: The huge set ups in Mangalore, which have had the habit of dumping their wastes at places as per their convenience will now have to be a little more careful because if caught by the MCC, they can be made to pay penalty for the same. According to the Karnataka Municipal Corporation (amendment) Act, 2013, the Corporation has the right to impose penalty against illegal dumping of

Mangalore, Dec 10: “Human rights mean trying to infuse dignity in the human lives. We should try to infuse culture, morals and values in society, and have a strong legal system to counter human rights violations,” said senior advocate K P Vasudeva Rao. Delivering the keynote address at Human Rights Day celebrations programme jointly organised by Dakshina Kannada district administration, District

Bangalore, Dec 10: Three weeks after the brutal attack on a woman bank official at an unguarded ATM kiosk here, the assailant was still on the run even as police said they were making "all efforts" to nab him. "We are making all efforts, but still no arrest has been made in the ATM attack case. However, we have identified the assailant through CCTV footage," Bangalore Police Commissioner

Bangalore, Dec 10: Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wodeyar, scion of the erstwhile Mysore royal family and the last descendant of the Wodeyar dynasty, died of severe cardiac arrest at a private hospital here today. Sixty-year old Wodeyar, who had been ailing in recent months, was brought to a private hospital in an unconscious state and doctors' attempts to resusitate him failed, a senior hospital

Bangalore, Dec 10: Renowned cinematographer of Kannada cinema Sundarnath Suvarna breathed his last on Tuesday morning in Bangalore. According to family sources, Suvarna, 60, was suffering from cancer for some time. His last rites will be held in his native Mangalore on Wednesday. Besides cinematographing for more than 150 films, he had also produced and directed some films. Sundarnath Suvarna

Mangalore, Dec 10: Mangalore-based Ideal Ice Cream secured a triumph of five awards at the Great Indian Ice Cream Contest 2013, an all-India Ice Cream Competition held on December 3 at Gurgaon, New Delhi, held under the aegis of Indian Dairy Association. Announcing this at a press conference here on Tuesday, proprietor of Ideal Ice Cream S Mukund Kamath said that out of six different categories