Karnataka

Karwar, Sep 3: A six-member gang looted beedis worth Rs 20 lakhs near Bogribail in Ankola taluk in the wee hours of Monday. The lorry was carrying 30 Mark beedis from Mangalore to Rajasthan. The lorry had 700 boxes of beedis. The gang followed the lorry in a vehicle on National Highway 63 and stopped it near Bogribail. Some of them attacked the driver and cleaner. The lorry was taken to a secluded

Vittal, Sep 3: An unidentified gang attempted to rob a cooperative bank at Kudthamogeru near Vittal here sometime over the weekend. But the robbery attempt was futile as they could not retrieve the gold and money stored in it. Shockingly, for a bank that has more than Rs. 2 crore in goods inside, there were no security arrangements for the weekend. The Kurthamogeru branch of the Vittal Patnur

Bangalore, Sept 3: A section of Karnataka BJP members has made a fresh push towards bringing former Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa back into the party fold, saying the move would yield significant dividends in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. Former CM DV Sadananda Gowda, ex-minister Basavaraja Bommai and Arvind Limbavalli today left for Gujarat to meet BJP Campaign Committee Chairman Narendra Modi

Mangalore, Sep 3: In connection to the two-year-old Panjimogaru double-murder case, victim Razia's husband Hameed P M and his brother Mayyaddi have urged to hand over the case for a CBI investigation. Addressing mediapersons at a press conference here on Monday, Hameed said that the accusations made against him by Razia's brother Muhammed Haneef were false. Hameed said that since both the parties

Bangalore, Aug 2: Police have issued a look-out notice as it stepped up searches to nab serial rapist Jaishankar, who escaped from the high-security central prison in a dare-devil act. Home Minister K J George today visited the Parappana Agrahara jail, from where the notorious criminal, with the help of a bamboo pole and bed-sheet, and wearing a police uniform, scaled the high security inner and

Mangalore, Sep 2: Students from Konkani communities received scholarships worth Rs 2.5 crores from the Vishwa Konkani Student Scholarship Fund (VKSSF), established by World Konkani Centre, Mangalore in an award ceremony held at T V Raman Pai Convention Hall, Kodialbail here on Monday. The scholarships were awarded by Minister for Higher Education and Tourism R V Deshpande, who also inaugurated the

Bangalore, Sep 2: The Karnataka government is drawing up a Rs. 2,100 crore project with loan assistance from Asian Development Bank, to develop and upgrade eight city clusters around Bangalore to woo investment and ease the load on the State capital. The city clusters proposed to be developed are Nelamangala, Magadi, Anekal, Bidadi, Dabaspet, Harohalli, Devanahalli and Hoskote, Urban Development

Dubai, Sep 2: A Mangalore based woman has allegedly duped a number of Indian investors to the tune of USD 10 million in Oman and fled the country, according to a report. According to the victims, the swindler lured them by showing forged ministry papers claiming to be the in-charge of several projects, the Times of Oman reported. "She lured us into the trap. She even produced forged papers

Riyadh, Sep 2: Karavali Welfare Association Riyadh (KWAR) came as silver lining to stranded Indian couple, in Riyadh, who had almost lost hopes of reaching their motherland. Vijay Fernandes and his wife Preethi from Byndoor near Kundapura were brought to Riyadh on work visa. While Vijay aspired to work as a driver, his wife was hopeful to work as a domestic maid. One Mr Abdul Khader, an agent in

Bantwal, Sep 2: In a bizarre incident, childline, labour department, education department and police held a joint operation and rescued an eight-year-old child employed as domestic help from the residence of a traffic policeman's house. The kid was rescued from a residence at Ajjibettu in B C Road, after the Childline received a call stating that a child evidently below 10 years of age was being