Karnataka

Mangalore, Aug 13: A thief who tried staging a stunt of jumping from a building to escape being caught died owing to several injuries, at a private hospital in Moodbidri, on Tuesday. Victim has been identified as Vijay (35), a native of Polali. He was staying in his relative's house at Guddeyangady, Kodyadka and was working as a daily wage labourer in Moodbidri. It is learnt that on Tuesday

Mangalore, Aug 13: Sri Ram Sene will organise its annual study meet on August 17 and 18 at Shree Subramanya Mandir, Neermarga. Addressing a news conference on Tuesday, Sene State Vice-President Kumar Malemar said that the meet will have its national president, Pramod Mutalik, State organising secretary, Gangadara Kulakarni, Mahesh Koppa and Savitha Ranganath taking part in it. The meet will

Mangalore, Aug 13: An officer working in the District Small Scale Industries Office, landed in the Lokayukta net when he was caught red-handed by sleuths while accepting a bribe here on Tuesday. Vaman Nayak, Small-scale Industrial Promotion officer at the District Industrial Centre, was arrested by the Lokayukta police at Yeyyadi, after he was caught accepting a bribe of Rs 4000 from complainant

Mangalore, Aug 13: J R Lobo, MLA of Mangalore South visited the Mangalore Fisheries Port (Dakke) in the Port Ward, here on Tuesday, and held a discussion with the officials to take proper steps to solve the existing problems. It was noticed that cleanliness was the major problem of the area. The drains were full and the sewage was overflowing into the roads, accumulating at various pockets

Kundapur, Aug 13: The accidental death of one of the members of a group, which had ventured into forest for hunting, has now been billed as a murder by the Kundapur police.Prabhakar Acharya, a resident of Noojadi had gone hunting with his friends Sundar Poojary, Nagaraj alias Raju Poojary, Santhosh Poojary and Nagaraj Poojary on August 10. It was said that Prabhakar died on the spot after one of

Srinagar, Aug 13: When Kishtwar's iconic singer-poet Ghulam Nabi Dholwal aka Janbaz Kishtwari rolled out his famous chaland on life's ironies and crisscross of joy and melancholy 50 years ago, he wouldn't have visualised last Friday's inferno in the wildest of his dreams. “kansi hund jinaza niwan, kansi chhai baraath yiwan; kanh chhu sada nala diwan, kansi aasan manzi raath” [someone's funeral

Mumbai, Aug 13: Ten months after being arrested for his alleged role in the 2002 bomb blast case in Mumbai, a techie from Hyderabad has been discharged of all the charges. Much before his arrest, for 10 years, Mumbai police had been claiming that Taj-ul Kazi Siddiqui, 40, was the main conspirator in the 2002 Ghatkopar bus blast case. In a charge-sheet filed in 2003, he was named one of the 29

Mysore, Aug 13: The by-polls to Bangalore Rural and Mandya parliamentary segments and three constituencies in the legislative council could hold the key to political realignment in Karnataka. With the opposition parties taking on collectively against ruling Congress in the bye-election, a first in recent times, shift in political positions could be on the cards ahead of Lok Sabha polls with former

Belthangady, Aug 13: Acting on a tip off, Belthangady police, early on Monday morning seized valuable varieties of timber being transported illegally at Gerukatte Parapu in Kaliya village of Belthangady taluk and nabbed seven in this regard. The 'Mavu', 'Uppalige' and 'Porli' varieties of timber is estimated to cost about Rs 1 lac. The police conducted checking in the said area following

Mangalore, Aug 13: The circular of National Band for Agriculture and Rural Development(NABARD) of vesting power of issuing agri credit to district banks and not with the Agriculture Co-op Societies has created a sense of confusion among the co-ops. Addressing a news conference in the city on Monday on the same lines, South Canara District Central Cooperative Bank President M N Rajendra Kumar said