Karnataka

Bangalore, Jul 2: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah Tuesday ordered a probe into a claiBm in a suicide note allegedly written by a stock broker that he was taking his life due to harassment by two police officers to pay Rs.7 crore. "The CID (Criminal Investigation Department) will investigate and action will be taken whoever is involved," Siddaramaiah told reporters here. The body of businessman Ripon

Mangalore, July 2: Kannada film 'Chella Pilli', directed by debutant director Sai Krishna Kudla and starring Vijay Raghavendra is all set to be released on July 5 across cinema theatres all over Karnataka. The movie, featuring several Tulu artistes in lead roles, is being produced by the city-based Sudesh Bhandary under the banner 'Shinecity Productions'. Director of the movie Sai Krishna has

Mangalore, Jul 2: Mangalore City South MLA J R Lobo paid a visit to the proposed fish market in Bejai which is in construction stage, and inspected the works. Briefing mediapersons after inspecting the proposed plans, he said that the blueprint of the market building had been prepared and work had already begun on the project. The basement would be made into a parking area, while the other floors

Udupi, Jul 2: Two more persons have been arrested by police in connection with kidnap and gang-rape of a medical student in Manipal. The arrested are Balachandra and Hareendra. They are brothers of Yogesh Poojary and Hariprasad respectively who had been arrested by police last week. IGP Pratap Reddy said that Balachandra and Hareendra will be charged with destruction of evidence of the case. The

Riyadh, Jul 2: Ahead of the holy month of Ramadan, Saudi Arabia has reportedly decided to extend the grace period for illegal expatriates, which was supposed to expire on Wednesday July 3. Sources in Labor Ministry of Saudi Arabia said the deadline to rectify the status would be extended to Muharram 1, 1435 H (November 2013). This will allow many foreign expats to complete their undocumented work

Mangalore, Jul 2: A surveyor was caught red-handed by Lokayukta police while accepting bribe to prepare a survey sketch at Puttur in Dakshina Kannada district. The accused has been identified as surveyor Mahesh B Shetty, a resident of Basavapatna. He has been working in Bantwal taluk as surveyor for past 15 years. Shetty had asked the complainant Dejappa Poojary of Badekodi, Peraje village to come

Dubai, Jul 2: Moved by their plight, an Indian businessman in the UAE has helped nearly 3,700 prisoners from several nations who had served their sentences but remained in jails in the country for lack of money, by paying off their debts and buying them air tickets for home. Firoz G Merchant, owner of a jewellery company, has already secured the release of about 3,700 prisoners since 2011

Bhubaneswar, Jul 2: About 24 schoolchildren were injured, five of them critically, when a handmade crude bomb exploded in a classroom of a government-run high school in the coastal Odisha city of Cuttack on Monday. All the injured students have been admitted to hospital. The local police have begun investigations. “The bomb exploded when 58 class IX students were sitting inside their room and the

Riyadh, Jul 2: Those expatriates whose documents have been accepted but could not be completed by Wednesday, the last day of the grace period, because of the paucity of time will be covered under the amnesty even after the deadline, an official source has clarified. The source stressed that all files have to be complete and all conditions fulfilled. Undocumented expat workers are in a race against

Mangalore, Jul 2: Come Sunday, the central market swells by leaps and bounds and the market stretches itself into all the nearby lanes and roads. Street vendors come in large numbers and occupy places in central talkies road, maidan road and the main road near Town Hall to the extent that walking and driving practically becomes impossible. Though operations to evacuate these vendors were made in