Karnataka

Udupi, Sep 27: Udupi police arrested five alleged Bannanje Raja associates on the charge of conspiring to threaten and rob a businessman at the Ashirwad Junction here on Thursday. The arrested hasve been identified as Mohammed Maksood of Moodbidri, Mohammed Haneef of Karkal, Sachin Poojary of Udupi, Syed Buran of Kaup, and Shamshudin of Udupi. The police have recovered two swords, three steel rods

Bangalore, Sep 27: Thirty-four people escaped with minor injuries on Thursday when a college bus in which they were travelling rammed into a tree and turned upside down near Chennasandra junction, under the jurisdiction of the Kengeri traffic police. The injured included students, teaching and non-teaching staff of JSS Academy of Technical Education, Kengeri. The injured were rushed to BGS?Global

New Delhi, Sep 27: The Supreme Court on Thursday sought a response from the Karnataka government to a bail plea by Abdul Nasser Ma'adani, an accused in the Bangalore serial blasts in 2008. A bench of Justices H L Gokhale and J Chelameswar issued notice to the State government after advocates Prashant Bhushan and Haris Beeran, representing Ma'adani, the founder of People's Democratic Party in

Bangalore, Sep 26: AICC today constituted the much-awaited coordination committee in party-ruled Karnataka, four and half months after the landslide victory ousting the BJP from power. In a surprise, Congress has included sulking senior party leader D K Shivakumar in the panel. Shivakumar had not been included in the cabinet, ostensibly due to allegations of corruption against him. But it seems he

Mangalore, Sep 26: Tulu cinema'Rickshaw Driver' produced under the banner of'Sri Muthu Films' is all set to hit the silver screens across the district on Friday. Speaking at a press conference at Cinepolis multiplex, City Centre mall here on Thursday, director of the film H S Rajashekar said that the film revolved around the life of an auto-rickshaw driver and reflected the struggles of rickshaw

Bangalore, Sep 26: Mumtaz Ali Khan, who was a Minister in the previous BJP Government, joined Congress today, saying he was saddened by the outfit's decision to project Narendra Modi as its Prime Ministerial candidate. Khan, who had held the departments of Minority Affairs, Haj and Wakf during BJP rule, also resigned as a member of the state Legislative Council. Soft-spoken Khan, a sociology

Mangalore, Sep 26: City-based Al Wafa Charitable Trust has come forward to conduct individual marriage ceremonies of select couples at the local mosque or their residence, in order to help girls of marriageable age who are orphaned or hail from poor families. The marriage ceremonies for each couple will take place individually in the presence of the organisers, said a press release. According to

Mangalore, Sep 26: Citizens of Mangalore breathed a sigh of relfief after authorities allayed fears of bomb plantation at Infosys campus at Kottara in the city, saying miscommunication between a compny employee and an housemade was to blame for the panic. Earlier, reports of a possible terror attack spread through the media and social networks. After initial reports of bomb threat call, security

Mangalore, Sep 26: Childline has filed a complaint in Konaje Police station against a teacher of Nishara Public School, Harekala for punishing 23 students of VII Standard to take sit-ups 1000 times for not completing homework. According to the complaint, Computer Science teacher Sowmya asked the students to take sit-ups in front of all their classmates on Monday and 13 students remained absent

Mangalore, Sep 26: A teenaged student of a college at Car Street was found dead under mysterious circumstances near riverside in Bolar. The deceased is 18 year old Akshatha, a second year B.Com student and resident of Adyar. She had gone missing on September 21. As the search for the girl proved futile, the worried parents complained to the Mangalore rural police and a missing case was registered