Karnataka

Doha, Jun 25: In order to cope with increasing number of passengers Air India Express would be introducing weekly two direct flights on Doha-Mangalore-Doha route with effect from July 29. Currently Air India Express is operating only one weekly flight on Friday between the above destinations. As per the present schedule every Friday the flight departs Doha at 10:30 a.m. and reaches Mangalore at 4

Banglore, Jun 25: A delegation of Welfare Party of India has met Karnataka home minister K J George and exhorted him to give justice to jailed PDP Abdun-Nasar Madani, who had been allegedly fixed by police in two major serial bomb blast cases. Madani was initially arrested in April 1998 in connection with Coimbatore serial blasts case. Police had called him as him as the mastermind of bomb blasts

Udupi, Jun 25: No nation can progress if it cannot provide security to its women, Pejawar mutt pontiff Shree Vishwesha Teertha Swamiji has said. Speaking to media persons, the Swamiji said that after Delhi and Bangalore, surfacing of an incident of sexual assault in Manipal as well has paved way for a feeling of insecurity for women in the entire country. Those behind the sexual assault must be

Udupi, Jun 25: A bachelor degree student reportedly ended his life on the railway tracks near Indrali in Udupi district on Monday evening. Yogesh Shetty (20) from Hebri is the youth who committed suicide. The incident is said to have occurred at about 7.30 p.m. at Kukkikatte railway tracks near Indrali. The body was discovered by locals and handed over to the Udupi town police, who arrived at the

Bangalore, Jun 25: The Home department in Karnataka has prepared fresh guidelines to be followed by universities for ensuring safety of their students in the wake of brutal gang-rape of a medical students in Manipal. The new guidelines would specifically focus on the feasible measures for ensuring security and safety of students of the state-run and private universities. They also focus on

Kasargod, Jun 25: After a meticulous investigation Kerala police have arrested a man wanted in around 200 theft cases across the south Indian state. Ratheesh, also known as 'Kozhi' Ratheesh, 50, of Vaikom, was known in police circles as 'Bunty Chor, the second' and was trapped by a special team under Baiju Poulose, Circle Inspector, Tripunithura, on the basis of visuals captured in CCTVs in three

Bangalore, Jun 25: Throwing caution to the wind, hundreds of curious people on Monday gathered to see a herd of elephants which had strayed into Huskur village, hindering the operation by forest department officials to drive away the pachyderms. The herd of 16 elephants, including two calves, had passed through Dommasandra before entering Huskur. The forest department in the evening managed to

Jeddah, Jun 25: Businesses and expats say they are pinning hopes on a possible royal gesture by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah before the advent of Ramadan to extend the July 3 amnesty deadline. Foreign diplomats have also requested the Saudi government either to extend the deadline or declare a new three-month amnesty in the beginning of next Hijrah year to help more expats

Mangalore, June 24: The runway of the Mangalore International Airport will be extended from 2,450 metres to 3,560 metres, for which 285 acres of land will be acquired said Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas M Veerappa Moily. He was briefing media persons on the upcoming developmental projects in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts, after chairing a review meet on various projects and

Mangalore, Jun 24: He helped her mother, a daily wage earner and washed vessels in a hotel in his spare time while he was studying, but financial hardship did not stop Manjunath from clearing the tough Joint Admission Test for MSc (JAM). Manjunath of Sullia taluk near Mangalore will now pursue his six-year joint MSc-PhD at IIT Bhubaneswar after clearing JAM. "I am leaving to Bhubaneswar on July 13