Karnataka

Mangalore, Oct 3: On the basis of a document obtained through Right To Information (RTI) on September 9, 2013 from the Chief Election Office, Karnataka, activist Mohammed Kabeer has submitted a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) demanding recovery of heavy and unnecessary expenditure incurred by the government on the account of H D Kumaraswamy and Cheluvarayan Swamy from Janata Dal (Secular)

Mumbai, Oct 3: Senior IPS officer Ranjit Sahay, who was hospitalised with severe burns after he allegedly attempted suicide at his residence, today succumbed to his injuries here. Additional Director General of Police (Police Housing) Sahay suffered a partial loss of kidney function and was battling for life due to "extremely critical health conditions since a few days," a police officer said.

Dammam, Oct 3: Indian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Hamid Ali Rao praised King Abdullah for extending the grace period for illegal expats till November 3 and requested all Indian expatriates in the country to make use of this occasion. Addressing the Indian volunteers based in Dammam and Al-Khobar, who involved in helping the people affected by Nitakat, Mr Rao urged the expatriates to follow the law

Mangalore, Oct 3: Surprising but true, the cab drivers who toiled for 27 days, day and night during the elections are yet to receive their pay. The district administration chipped in the local cab drivers for election duty and now when the drivers are demanding their dues, they are made to run from pillar to post. Over the last five months they have been making rounds at Regional Transport Office

Manipal, Oct 3: The Christian community in Manipal took objection to a banner of a drama which portrayed Jesus Christ as a mouse. A drama based on Agatha Christy's'The mouse trap' was to be staged by a troupe named'Dramanon' of KMC students at Syndicate Bank Silver Jubilee Hall, on October 14. As publicity to the event several banners were put up at different places. The banner had in it the

Moodbidri, Oct 3: Jain seers led by Charubhattaraka Swamiji of Moodbidri Jain Mutt held a hunger stir in the Thousand Pillar Basadi premises, demanding tracing the idols stolen from Siddhantha Darshana Basadi and handing over the inquiry of the case to CBI at the earliest. Addressing the gathering Charubhattaraka Swamiji said that in a theft that was executed on June 5, as many as 15 invaluable

Bangalore, Sep 3: A 32-year-old film actor-turned-realtor Anil Kumar was killed after the imported BMW bike he was riding hit a tree on 17th Cross, Malleswaram, past Tuesday midnight. Incidentally , the victim's father was following right behind in a car but could not keep pace with Anil who was driving at high speed. By the time realtor Balaram caught up with his son, death had snatched Anil away

Bangalore, Oct 3: An IT professional from the US, who was in the City to attend her younger sister's wedding, fell to death from the balcony of an eleventh-floor flat in Sahakar Nagar here in the early hours of Wednesday. Kavitha, 30, was drunk when she climbed onto the railings of one of the two sit-outs in the flat, in a bid to cross over to the other, separated by three feet. In a drunken

Bantwal, Oct 3: Aboobakker Siddique (35), a construction labourer drowned after being carried away by the currents of Nethravati river near Bantwal market on Wednesday afternoon. Siddeeque, a resident of Sunnath Kere in Guruvayanakere and son of Abbas stepped into the river for ablution (ritual of purification by washing) for noon namaz (prayer) in the river, when he slipped and fell around 1 p.m

Mangalore, Oct 2: The Department of Health and Family Welfare will construct an'Aarogya Soudha' in the city at the cost of Rs 8 crore, which will house all offices coming under the department at the district-level. A sum of Rs 4.5 crore has been released for the project, informed Minister for Health and Family Welfare U T Khader. Addressing mediapersons at a press conference here on Wednesday, he