Karnataka

Mangalore, Sep 11: While the protests and struggle to save river Nethravati is on, the artists of the district joined hands to do their bit, on Tuesday in St Aloysius campus. Through the medium of colours, the artists painted their feelings on how river Nethravati has been the source of life and how Yettinahole project can smother the river, on a 50 mtr long banner. As many as 28 like-minded

Kadaba, Sep 11: Minister for Health U T Khader has given a strong warning to all the doctors working at the Primary Health Centres of legal action against them if they are found to be not delivering their duties efficiently. The general public brought to the notice of the Minister various problems including that of non availability of doctors at Kola PHC in the night, as the Minister took out time

Bangalore, Sep 11: A couple returning from a Ganesha temple and two youths who went to buy pooja items for the festival came under an army truck, after an inebriated driver went berserk on Mysore Road near Doddabele Junction, Kengeri on Monday morning. All four, who were travelling on two scooters, died instantly. The truck driver, Jyothiba Maruti Belgaonkar, 31, hailing from Belgaum, was found

Bangalore, Sep 11: Heading a 22-member delegation, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has left for Dalian in China to participate at the three-day annual meeting of the New Champions of the World Economic Forum starting on Wednesday. Sporting a blue suit, Siddaramaiah, who otherwise wears white dhoti and shirt or kurta, boarded the flight last night on his maiden foreign trip after becoming

Mangalore, Sep 11: The commencement of the centennial birth year of renowned poet, freedom fighter and Kannada activist Dr Kayyara Kinhanna Rai was celebrated as part of Ganeshothsava celebrations by Shree Siddhi Vinayaka Pratishthana and Sarvajanika (Public) Ganeshothsava Samiti, Mangalore at Bunts Hostel here on Tuesday. Homage was paid to the eminent poet Nadoja Dr Kayyara Kinhanna Rai in the

New Delhi, Sep 11: Nearly one out of four men in a United Nations study of 10,000 men in Asia admitted to having committed a rape, a report released on Tuesday shows. Marital rape was by far the most common type of rape, followed by the rape of an intimate partner. Sexual entitlement — the “belief that men were entitled to sex regardless of consent” — was the top reason men gave for committing a

New Delhi, Sep 10: Her cries for help went unheeded as the six people, including a juvenile, tortured her for an hour, took turns to rape her, bit her, hit her with an iron rod, shoved it inside her and even used hands to tear her inner organs out, the gang rape victim said in her last testimony. In her four-page statement in Hindi to the magistrate five days after the barbaric attack on her, the

Mangalore, Sep 10: In the backdrop of ambiguity persisting with regard to the 'Yettinahole project', Belthangady Taluk Hitarakshana Vedike (BTHV) has urged the state government to postpone the foundation stone laying ceremony for Yettinahole project, scheduled to be held on September 14. In this regard, the Vedike President K Prathapa Simha Nayak has demanded the government to first hold briefing

Bangalore, Sep 10: The absconding eighth accused in the gang rape of a law student in Bangalore University campus last year, was arrested Tuesday - six days after a fast track court sentenced six of his accomplices to life imprisonment. "Muthuraj alias Raja, 24, who hails from the neighbouring Ramanagar district and was absconding since the date of crime (Oct 10, 2012) has been arrested by the

Mangalore, Sep 10: Besant First Grade Evening College, Mangalore will be organising a UGC-sponsored national seminar on'Effective Partnerships between Commercial banks and Micro-finance Institutions' in the college auditorium on Thursday, said principal of the college Dr Carmelita Goveas. Speaking at a press meet here on Tuesday, she said that the seminar is aimed at students who pursue