Karnataka

Manipal, Jul 9: Three idols made of ivory worth crores of rupees were seized and a man was arrested after a raid on a guest house at Ananth Nagar near Manipal. The raid was conducted by a team of Police Forest Mobile Squad from Mangalore and Madikeri. Acting on a tip off, the team arrested Ravindra Bhat (60), a resident of Hosangady village on the charge of trying to sell the idols. The idols of

Uppinangaldy, Jul 9: In a shocking incident, a 45-year-old man allegedly poured kerosene on his wife and set her ablaze in their house at a village in Putur taluk. The accused, Beasin Monterio, a resident of Kapinabagilu in Kaukrady village near Uppinangady was arrested by the police on Monday. It is learnt that Beasin Monterio and his wife Rosaline Lobo (40) used to quarrel frequently. On Sunday

Mangalore, Jul 9: An elderly man accidentally fell into an open drain near Amantran Hotel at Attavar in the city on Monday and died on spot. The deceased has been identified as Muralidhar (60), from Kanhangad. According to police Muralidhar slipped into the drain when he went there to urinate. Muralidhar, who had consumed liqour from a nearby wine shop, could not notice that a portion of the drain

Bangalore, Jul 9: Three members of a family were crushed to death on spot by speeding car under the limits of K?S?Layout Traffic Police limits in Bangalore. The victims Daskhina Murthy, 50, his wife Nagaveni, 42, and their daughter, Aishwarya, 13, were residents of Kanaka Nagara Layout on Kanakapura Road. The accident occurred on Umar Bagh Layout, Ring Road, when the family was returning home on a

Bangalore, Jul 9: Former Infosys CFO T V Mohandas Pai has asked Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to rise above politics and call off implementation of Congress government's scheme to provide 30 kg rice per month to BPL families at Re one per kg as it would impose a heavy burden on the state exchequer. Pai said government was not going to give money from its pockets but implement the scheme by using tax

Riyadh/Dubai, Jul 8: The Muslim fasting month of Ramadan will begin in Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar and few other Middle Eastern countries on Wednesday. Muslim clerics unsuccessfully searched the skies for the crescent moon on Monday night, in the ceremony that determines the beginning of Ramadan. Because no moon was sighted, the first day of fasting will begin on Wednesday

Mangalore, July 8: A well-equipped fish market constructed by Karnataka Fisheries Development Corporation at a cost of Rs 10 lakhs under Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY) was inaugurated by Minister for Youth Affairs and Fisheries Abhaychandra Jain at Kemral in Mangalore taluk on Monday. Speaking after inaugurating the market, Mr Jain said that it was up to the local administrative body

Mangalore, Jul 8: Minister for Fisheries and Youth Services Abhyayachandra Jain has proclaimed his objection for the establishment of Niddodi Thermal power plant. “I was the first elected representative to oppose this project. I still hold on to my decision,” said Mr Jain addressing reporters after inaugurating government programme at Kemral. In 2011, Shettar Government submitted a proposal to the

New Delhi, Jul 8: BJP on Monday said it has come into election mode and is ready for snap polls for which it has laid down a roadmap making good governance and development as its poll planks. The opposition party said it will form several committees in the next few days to highlight the failure of the Congress-led UPA government on various issues like corruption, price rise and on the economic

London, Jul 8: A healthy boy in the US has become the world's first test tube baby to be born using a new low cost "next-generation sequencing" IVF technique that screens the embryo for genetic defects, Oxford scientists announced today. The method, through which the baby was born last month, uses the latest DNA sequencing techniques and aims to increase in-vitro fertilisation success rates while