Karnataka

Bangalore, Sep 15: Five people, including two children and two women, died in three separate incidents of house collapse since late Friday due to incessant rains across the city, police said. "Two boys (Manoj and Pranoj) died early Saturday while they were asleep when the roof of their house at Domlur (in the eastern suburbs) caved in under the weight of an adjacent compound wall. Though their

Bidar/Dharwad, Sep 15: Six children drowned in two separate incidents in the State on Saturday. In the first incident, four children, including three girls, drowned in the Buggi Basavanna tank on Kallur road on the outskirts of the town on Saturday morning. The deceased have been identified as: Pooja Ganapath, 10, Latha Vasanth, nine, Roopa Gudappa, nine and Yuvaraj Badal, seven. They were part of

Bangalore, Sep 15: Five youth were killed when the car they were travelling in rammed into a Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation bus at Somanahalli on Kanakapura Road on Saturday evening. The deceased have been identified as Syed Ayub Pasha and Mohammad Jubed, residents of Ashoknagar; Yasir Khan, a resident of Neelasandra; and Yarab Abbas and Mayur Sharma of Shantinagar. They were aged

Mangalore, Sep 14: When India became free from British rule, our leaders ensured that the oppressive laws were done away with. However, oppressive laws such as the Police Act, 1861, Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 and others still continue to exist, said PUCL national president Prof Prabhakar Sinha. Speaking at a programme at Jathanna Hall, Balmatta here on Saturday where national office-bearers

New Delhi, Sep 14: One of the defence lawyers in the December 16 gangrape case has courted trouble with his remarks that he would have burnt alive her daughter had she been having premarital sex and moving around at night with her boyfriend. The Delhi Bar Council has taken a serious view of A P Singh, lawyer for two of the convicts, after it received many complaints from NGOs and other

Riyadh, Sep 14: The government of Saudi Arabia has approved the construction of residential complexes for foreign workers on the outskirts of Riyadh to provide them with suitable housing facilities. The High Commission for Riyadh Development (HCRD), a Saudi Arabia government agency, approved the residential project for expatriate workers that will include all hierarchies -unskilled, technical

Mangalore, Sep 14: Dharmadhikari of Dharmasthala temple Dr Veerendra Heggade will inaugurate the 101st Dasara celebrations at Shree Gokarnanatheswara Kudroli temple in the city this year, announced veteran Congress leader B Janardhan Poojary on Saturday. Speaking at a press conference at the Congress office here on Saturday, Mr Poojary said that the inaugural ceremony, scheduled to be held at 5.30

Mangalore, Sep 14: The widow of slain rowdy-sheeter Thingaldy Umesh Rai, allegedly ended her life on a railway track near Kabaka in Puttur. 35-year-old Soumya had married to Umesh Rai over 15 years ago in spite of strong opposition by her father late Muttappa Gowda. She had left her parental house forever. After marriage, she was living with her husband Rai till March 2010, when the latter was

Kasargod, Sep 14: Kasargod police arrested four persons for transporting hemp and seized 10 kilogram of hemp, which is illegally transporting in train. Arrested are identified as K A Imtiaz (29), K M Abdul Sattar (51) resident of Ceramics Road in Talangere and Naushad P M (31) and Mohemmed Riyaz (35). It is learnt that Riyaz was alighted on Mangala Express train from Mumbai at 4.50 a.m. and was in

Mangalore, Sep 14: As Gujarat Chief Minister, BJP's poster boy Narendra Modi anointed as the party's Prime Ministerial candidate, saffron party activists in Mangalore celebrated'Vijayotsav' on Saturday. The local BJP leaders and workers, who are known as ardent fans of Mr Modi, gathered in front of party office burst crackers and distributed sweets. Addressing the jubilant mob BJP, Monappa