Karnataka

Mangalore, October 13: Four teenaged girls, who went missing after attending classes on Friday evening, were traced by the city Police early on Saturday morning. The missing girls identified as Lavanya, Dhanyasree, Ruthika and Pratiksha -all Class 8 students of Capitanio High School in the city- were found in a house near ESI hospital at Shivbhag in the city. It is learnt that they had taken

Mangalore, October 13: The office-bearers of Kantheri Dhoomavathi Chavadi/Daivsthana Horata Samiti have flayed the acquisition of the temple land under first phase of the Mangalore Special Economic Zone. Addressing media persons on Friday, temple Managing Trustee Lakshana Chowta said that 800-year-old temple had 37 acres land. However, the land has been notified for MSEZ and the process of land

Kasargod, October 13: Minister for Home Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan on Friday inaugurated a public function organised in connection with 'Maanava Souharda rally' hosted by the district police and Federation of Residents' Associations of Kasaragod (FRAK) to foster communal harmony. Speakers at the meet exhorted the people to foil the designs of vested interests to foment communal violence in the

Mangalore, October 13: Dakshina Kannada district administration has issued a notification on Friday, on the safer zones for crusher units in nine villages, even as a massive protest was staged by the District Civil Contractors' Association in front of the Deputy Commissioner's office. The protesters had demanded the government to find a solution to the problems faced by the people and the

Mangalore, October 13: A young railway gangman from Bihar died after he was knocked down by a train near Kalnad bridge near Bekal on Friday, police said. The incident occurred at 8.30 a.m. as Surendra Kumar 24, son of Vasudev Prasad, a native of Dhana in Bihar's Nawada district, was knocked down from the bridge as two trains approached the bridge on the parallel lines. Surendra Kumar was attached

Mangalore, October 12: Four girl students of Capitanio High School in the city have reportedly gone missing under mysterious circumstances on Friday. The missing girls have been identified as Lavanya, Dhanyasree, Ruthika and Pratiksha -all Class 8 students and close friends. Three among them are residents of Kodakkal near Kannur while another girl is from Kollurugudde. Though the girls attended

Mangalore, October 12: Though a suspect in the brutal rape and murder case of a 17-year-old girl in Dharmasthala has reportedly admitted the crime, police have called him “mentally ill”. The development has caused outrage among the public, who demanded the police to hand over the suspect identified as Santosh Bajagoli to them “instead of entertaining his drama”. Inspector General of Police Pratap

Mangalore, October 12: Amidst the confusing statements by the police following the arrest of a suspect in connection with the rape and murder of a 17-year-old girl in Dharmasthala, hundreds of angry protesters, most of them students, flooded to the streets in different parts of Dakshina Kannada district on Friday demanding stringent action against the culprits. Youth belonging to ABVP and Hindu

Mangalore, October 12: Large number of women gathered in front of Deputy Commissioner's Office on Friday in support of a protest organised by the city wing of BJP Mahila Morcha against the diesel price hike and cap on subsidised LPG cylinders. Addressing the protesters, Mangalore MP Nalin Kumar Kateel said that homes and families had been hit hard by the policies brought by the Congress-led UPA

Mangalore, October 12: The controversy over burqa ban on the campus of Kukke Shri Subrahmanyeshwara First Grade College has been reignited with the College management snubbing the district administration's directive by reinstating the rules which prohibits Muslim girls from entering the College premises with full body-covering dress. The college is run by the management of the Kukke Subrahmanya