Karnataka

Mangalore, Mar 20: Obsoleteness of Police Act of 1861, which is still followed without necessary amendments, is the biggest challenge faced by the department. Speaking about this Inspector General of Police (Western Range) Pratap Reddy, after inaugurating a one-day workshop on 'Human Rights Advocacy' organised by Department of Political Science, St Aloysius College (Autonomous), here on Wednesday

Dubai, Mar 20: Emirates India Fraternity Forum (EIFF) with the help of authorities of UAE government and Indian Consulate in Dubai managed to repatriate the body of an Indian expatriate who died after a road accident in Dubai. Shamsuddeen (27), son of Muhammad Soofi C H and Sauda, from Bellare, Sullia in Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka died due to head injury with intracranial hemorrhage

Mangalore, Mar 20: Karnataka Janatha Party leader V Dhananjay Kumar lashed out at the political leaders of Dakshina Kannada district for following the directions of RSS leader Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat. Addressing a press meet on Tuesday after inaugurating the new party office in the coconut garden in Nanthoor, here, the former union minister alleged that all leaders of Dakshina Kannada were puppets

Lucknow, Mar 20: In a tragic incident late on Tuesday night, eight children were killed and over a dozen injured when a speeding truck overturned at Nagla Patwari near the bypass in Aligarh, 335 km from Lucknow, police said. The deceased have been identified as Imran (five months), Akram (3), Kausar (7), Shabana (10), Khushboo (5), Zareena (8), Suhail (5) and Hazra (5). The dead include five

Udupi, Mar 20: The Lokayukta police trapped a geologist while accepting a bribe in his chamber at the office of the Department of Mines and Geology located in the District Officer Complex here. According to M Vittaldas Pai, Deputy Superintendent of Lokayukta Police, Girish Mohan, the geologist, was approached by Sandeep Kotian from Herga over renewal of his sand-mining permit. Mohan Allegedly

Mangalore, Mar 20: A prominent Christian priest was convicted of forging documents and sentenced to three years in prison. The second additional chief judicial magistrate (CJM) judge Bhavya on Tuesday pronounced verdict against Devaraj Bangera, former Bishop of Church of South India (CSI) Karnataka Southern Diocese. The Bishop had produced fake documents reportedly issued by the Kasargod

Mangalore, Mar 20: Dakshina Kannada District-in-Charge Minister C T Ravi expressed his unhappiness about the poor implementation of housing schemes in the district. He directed the Tahshildars of every taluk to identify land to distribute sites to the poor. Ravi was addressing the tri-monthly KDP meeting at Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat, here on Monday. Earlier, the officials informed that 25

Mangalore, Mar 20: Mangalore University Vice-Chancellor T.C. Shivashankara Murthy said that the Kannada Adhyayana Peeta of the University will be named after writer late S.V. Parameshwara Bhatta, who was the first director of the then Mangalore Postgraduate Centre (between 1968 and 1973) of the University of Mysore. The centre was carved out of the University of Mysore for establishing Mangalore

Chitradurga, Mar 20: Former Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa Tuesday said he will not return to BJP and accused its leaders of trying to create confusion among the people ahead of assembly polls. "I will not go back to BJP. Statements by BJP leaders that I will return to the party are a conspiracy against me," Yeddyurappa, who now heads Karnataka Janata Party, told reporters in this town

Mangalore, Mar 19: An 18-year-old girl from Puttur was found hanging by a passer-by in an old forested area near Kadri Park on Tuesday. It is presumed that the deceased Pramila committed suicide by hanging herself on Tuesday morning. Resident of Dolpadi in Puttur, it is said that she had been employed at a Café Coffee Day outlet in Mangalore. When alerted, Kadri police arrived at the place and