Karnataka

Bangalore, Feb 26: Criticizing the blind adoption of western culture and laws in India society, Karnataka High Court has said that such a practice could adversely impact "our society and kill our family system". The observations were made by a division bench of acting Chief Justice K Sreedhar Rao and Justice S Abdul Nazeer during the hearing of a PIL challenging telecast of raids on hookah bars

Mangalore, Feb 26: For the second time in Mangalore, the Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopaedics of A B Shetty Memorial Institute of Dental Sciences will organise the 17th National Indian Orthodontic Society (IOS) Post Graduate Convention from February 28 to March 3, said Dean (Academics) of the Institute Dr U S Krishna Nayak. Addressing mediapersons at a press conference here on

Mangalore, Feb 26: Dozens of students of the Canara Engineering College, Benjanapadavu, on the outskirts of the city sustained minor injuries when the college bus in which they were travelling on Monday toppled after hitting a hillock. The incident took place when the driver of the bus applied breaks to avoid collision with a car coming from opposite direction while moving down a sloping road. The

Ninety-seven Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Myanmar have died of hunger after being stranded at sea for 25 days, reports say. Thirty three Muslim immigrants who were rescued off the coast of Sri Lanka last week said that they were on a boat heading to Malaysia when Thailand navy forces intercepted them and took the boat's engine. The survivors said they were left floating at sea for 25 days

Kasargod, Feb 26: Intensifying their agitation to pressurize the authorities for the implementation of a rehabilitation package for those affected by endosulfan, mothers of endosulfan victims and other protesters blocked the National Highway near the new bus station here on Monday. Activists continued their fast that started on February 18, and the health of Subhash Cheemeni and P. Krishnan

Bangalore, Feb 26: Two coastal districts Udupi and Uttara Kannada, and neighbouring Kodagu district have secured top three positions in disposing of applications under Sakaala, a scheme for the timely delivery of services to the people of the State. The districts of Bijapur, Raichur and Bidar are at the bottom of the ranking list. As much as 97.39 per cent of the applications were disposed of in

Bangalore, Feb 26: After a six-month ordeal of being branded terrorists and charged with waging a war against the state, two of the fifteen arrested suspects, journalist Muthi-ur-Rahman Siddiqui and Syed Yusuf?Nalaband walked to freedom late Monday night. The Special Court of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday issued a detailed written order on the release of the two men accused of

Bantwal, Feb 25: A young lady was made to death after an attempt to rape. The deceased is Sowmya (22) from Kuntalpadi of Balthila village near Kalladka in Bantwal taluk. The Bantwal police have taken to custody one Sathish from the same village in this connection. It is said that Sowmya was on her way home after visiting her aunt in Manipal when the incident occurred. It is suspected that the

Mangalore, Feb 25: If it can be called a big catch or a pre-poll gain, former Puttur MLA Shakuntala Shetty on Monday formally joined the Congress in Bangalore. The development comes after she held talks with the Congress High command in the backdrop of looming Assembly polls in Karnataka. Shakuntala, who had contested from the BJP and had won from the constituency once, had rebelled against the

Hyderabad, Feb 25: In the wake of the revival of terror witch hunt in Hyderabad after last week's twin blasts, various human rights and secular organisations have urged the Centre and the Andhra Pradesh Government to carry out a thorough and impartial probe into the incident instead of jumping to the conclusion that so called 'Muslim terrorists' were behind them. Many such blasts like Ajmer