Karnataka

Mangalore, Jan 6: Police successfully arrested one more person in connection to the home stay attack. According to police sources, Udaya Thumbe, 35th accused was arrested from Thumbay. Sharan, the cameraman working for local news channel 'Sahaya TV' was arrested last Wednesday. Following his arrest three persons were arrested in connection to the home stay attack. After the arrest of TV reporter

Udupi, Jan 6: Dozens of hijab-clad activists of Girls' Islamic Organisation (GIO) and the women's wing of Jamaat-E-Islami Hind on Saturday staged a demonstration here protesting against increasing atrocities on women. The protesters took out a procession from Jodu Katte and moved through Diana Circle, K.M. Road, Service Bus Stand, Bannanje and culminated in front of the District Police Office. In

Mumbai, Jan 5: National Investigation Agency (NIA) today formally arrested key accused in 2007 Samjhauta Express blast case, Lokesh Sharma, in connection with the 2006 Malegaon bomb blasts case. Sharma, who is already under judicial custody, was produced before a special court here, which remanded him in NIA custody till January 19, police said. "Sharma was produced before the court which remanded

Bangalore, Jan 5: Karnataka Energy Minister Shobha Karandlaje, who is under the eye of a storm for her outbursts over safety of women in the state, is likely to be axed from the ministry, according to BJP sources. There was a demand for dropping Shobha, considered close to KJP chief B S Yeddyurappa, from the ministry with immediate effect at the BJP Core Committee meeting held here, sources said

Mangalore, Jan 5: In an attempt to make Karnataka a 'model mental health state', the Karnataka State Mental Health Task Force has been set up by the state government. Briefing media persons at the Deputy Commissioner's office in Mangalore on Saturday on the various steps planned to enhance the quality of treating mental illnesses, Dr. K A Ashok Pai, Chairman of the Task Force, said that a district

Mangalore, Jan 5: The shame and stigma associated with rape is the reason that several rape victims hesitate to report the crime and remain silent about it, said chairperson of Child Welfare Committee and advocate Asha Nayak, at an awareness programme on the atrocities of women in the country. Speaking at a panel discussion at the programme organised by St Agnes College at the college auditorium

Mangalore, Jan 5: A commission appointed by the Committee for Resisting Saffronisation of Education, Mangalore, has found that the new textbooks for the Class 5 and Class 8 recently released by the Karnataka Textbook Society (under the DSERT) have been “saffronised”, for the most part and have gone against the spirit of National Curriculum Framework 2005. Though NCF 2005 has recommended that

Mangalore, Jan 5: Although Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) are the lifeline of Indian economy, only 5% of MSMEs have obtained registration from the government which is a cause of concern, said M Prabhu, Additional Director (MSME), Department of Industries and Commerce, Government of Karnataka. He was delivering the keynote address at the inaugural ceremony of the National Vendor

Bangalore, Jan 5: Ruling parties exploiting the budget in a poll year to boost electoral prospects is old hat. However, Karnataka's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is using budget-politics to corner the party's former leader in the state, B.S. Yeddyurappa. Assembly elections are due in May and Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar is determined to present a full-budget to the legislature in the

New Delhi, Jan 5: Breaking his silence for the first time since the horrific Dec 16 gang-rape, the victim's friend said he wished he could have saved the 23-year-old woman and blamed police for delaying taking them to hospital for over two hours. "I wish I could have saved her," the young man, who Delhi Police have said is a 28-year-old software engineer, told Zee News in an exclusive interview