Karnataka

Mangalore, Jul 3: Several woes of citizens came to the fore as Mangalore City South MLA J R Lobo visited several suburbs of the city along National Highway 17 on Wednesday, along with officials belonging to National Highway Authority of India (NHAI). Locals living around Maroli on the NH 17 vented their grievances when Mr Lobo visited the spot for an inspection. They complained that the tar

Shimoga, Jul 3: Karnataka Education Department will shortly review all textbooks from class 1 to 10 and remove contents that cause enmity in society on the basis of religion and caste and disturbs communal harmony, Minister for Primary and Secondary Education Kimmane Ratnakar said. Government would remove provocative materials in school text books introduced with "some ulterior motives" and

Ahmedabad, Jul 3: The CBI has filed its first chargesheet in the Ishrat Jahan 'fake encounter' case on Wednesday in Gujarat high court. Ishrat Jahan and three others were killed by Gujarat police nine years ago. In its chargesheet, the CBI said that Ishrat Jahan was not a terrorist, but the three others killed along with her in a fake encounter on the outskirts of Ahmedabad nine years ago had

Malpe, Jul 3: Western Ghats has embraced some young ones in its arms. They are none other than 24 young ones of cobras, which were hatched naturally and 32 little pythons born through artificial methods of hatching. Vasanth Mendon from Malpe had called herpetologist Gururaj Sanil to inspect an anthill that had come up near his house. Gururaj found that there were several young ones of Cobras

New Delhi, Jul 3: Noting that even the mandatory physical verification system doesn't prevent SIM cards to fall into wrong hands, the home ministry has asked the department of telecommunication (DoT) to explore an option of making it compulsory for cellphone service providers to take fingerprints or any other biometric feature of the subscriber, akin to Aadhaar, before activating the mobile

Bangalore, Jul 3: Young actor Hemanth died of heart attack in the wee hours of Wednesday (July 3). He was 27 and his last movie was Nenapinangala, which was released in March 2013. Reports say that he suffered a heart attack while doing workouts in his gym in Hebbal, Bangalore. As he complained of chest pain, he was rushed to MS Ramaiah hospital last evening. But treatment failed and he breathed

Udupi/Mangalore, Jul 3: Rains have intensified in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi district again and on Monday several rain tragedies took place in different parts of undivided Dakshina Kannada. A youth got washed away in gushing rain water at Sullia. Meanwhile, a young school kid who got into a stream to have bath at Brahmavar drowned. Vijay Kumar (14) from Honnavara has been living at Pre

Belthangady, Jul 3: A lady who abandoned her husband four years ago, owing to an extra marital affair was spotted with two children. Belthangady police have nabbed the lady and handed her over to her family members. Sugandhi (28), daughter of Annu Lingayath went missing from Mukre Karambaru of Savanalu village. She was married off to Nagaraj from Shikaripura in 2008. However, when Nagaraj

Kasargod, Jul 3: Police resorted to lathi-charge after a march by the activists of Students Federation of India (SFI) to the Revenue Divisional Office (RDO) in Kanhangad on Tuesday turned violent. The SFI members, led by its Kasargod district Secretary Shalu Mathew, took out the march to the RDO office this afternoon accusing the government of scuttling the admission norms by empowering the self

Riyadh, Jul 3: Diplomatic mission officials here from Pakistan, India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and the Philippines responded to the extension of the grace period with delight and gratitude yesterday. There was widespread praise for Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah for issuing the royal decree that will extend the amnesty to Nov. 3, 2013 — an effective four-month extension. Applauding