Karnataka

Mangalore, Dec 2:'O Re Soi' fame Yusuf Abdulla Sheikh has been selected for this year's Mathias Family Poetry Award by Kavita Trust. The award is given to a person for his/her significant service to the Konkani poetic field. The award includes Rs 10,000 in cash, a memento and a certificate. The award will be conferred during the “Kavita Fest” to be held on January 12, 2014 at the Town hall

Udupi, Dec 3: District Sessions Court has acquitted two persons in two separate cases pertaining to naxalite movements in the region. Nanda Kumar and Devendrappa are the two who have been acquitted by the Court. Nanda Kumar was facing charges of barging into the residence of one Bhoja Shetty, resident of Seethanadi Balebbi village in Karkala taluk, while Devendrappa was facing charges with Nanda

Mangalore, Dec 2: Main Line container vessel of M/s Pacific International Lines(PIL)-M.V. Kota Halus from East Africa (Port Matwara) called at New Mangalore Port on Monday, making it the fifth vessel to be called at the Port during the current financial year. The vessel commenced its operation of unloading 175 boxes of raw cashew to various cashew processing units situated in and around Mangalore

Bangalore, Dec 2: Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wadiyar has been elected President of the Karnataka State Cricket Association after a thumping win in the body's elections held during its Annual General Meeting here. "The Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA) members have taught (the outgoing team of) Anil Kumbleand Javagal Srinath group a lesson for their arrogance and egoism," Dr P Dayananda

Sullia, Dec 2: In a bizarre incident, a girl was robbed of his ear stud from Sullia Primary Health Centre by robbers who first reportedly hypnotized her using “magical powder”. It is said that Mohina, daughter of Ibrahim Musliar and Thahira couple from Adyar-Gundyadka had come to the PHC on November 28 to take medicines for her leg pain, along with her mother. The doctors had told Mohina that she

Mangalore, Dec 2: A youth facing murder charge, who was out on bail recently, has reportedly attempted to murder a youth only because the latter asked for Ganja publicly, on Sunday morning at Vidyanagar in Panjimogaru. Charan Raj is the victim, who has been admitted to the hospital in critical state. Jaison, an accused in a murder case who had recently been released on bail has reportedly done the

Mangalore, Dec 2: Police has arrested a man for allegedly threatening a city based businessman and demanding ransom from him. The arrested is Shamsuddin from Ullal. The accused claiming that he is a close aide of underworld don Ravi Poojary called Bharat Bhai, an entrepreneur at Bunder and threatened to kidnap his child if he failed to give him certain lakhs of rupees. Frightened by the call Mr

Bangalore, Nov 2: A man who allegedly killed his wife by smothering her to death with a pillow was arrested by police in Yeshwantpur late on Saturday night. According to investigating officers, the arrested, Gangaraju, 22, tried to pass off the death as a suicide. Employed as an electrician on a contract basis at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Gangaraju had married his cousin

Mangalore, Dec 2: Rotary club of Mangalore central with collaboration of Shastavi Sri Bhoothanatheshwara Trust organised 15th annual Orphanage Olympics, a daylong sports and Dakshina Kannada cultural event of orphanage school children at Shastavu Shri Bhoothanthesawara trust premise at Badaga Yedapadavu on December 1. The main objective of the event was to promote and support orphanage children in

New Delhi, Dec 2: Months after home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde created a political furore by saying RSS and BJP were "promoting Hindu terrorism", National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested a youth wing leader from the saffron party in connection with the murder offormer RSS pracharak Sunil Joshi. This is the first arrest of a BJP leader in connection with Hindutva terror cases. Late on