Karnataka

Mangalore, June 27: A city based youth has been selected to represent India on behalf of the Rashtriya Life Saving Society (India) at Rescue 2012 World Lifesaving Championships scheduled to be held later this year. Sanket Bengre from Panambur Beach Tourism Development Project has received an official invitation from Rashtriya Life Saving Society (India) to participate in the event. The

Bangalore, June 27: Senior journalist Vishweshwara Bhat was taken into custody by Halasur Gate Police and produced before the Bangalore Civil Court over a defamation case following the orders of the court on Wednesday. It is said that Mr. Bhat had not appeared before the court in spite of it giving summons seven times in connection with a defamation case filed by Advocate A P Ranganath. The Court

Dubai, June 27: Birthday celebrations of a Dubai school student turned into a tragedy after one of his classmates drowned in a swimming pool while the kids were playing. Family sources said nine-year-old Indian boy Bony Joseph Junior died before he was transferred to a hospital. His father had dropped him at New Gold Souq building in Bur Dubai for the kids' party to celebrate his classmate's

Mangalore, June 27: Eight youngsters from Dakshina Kannada have been languishing in Jeddah jail of Saudi Arabia on charges of illegally passing and routing telephone calls. The family members of these youth are not financially sound enough to afford the amount that is being demanded for their release and hence they are looking for some cooperation, said T M Shahid, Member, Coir Board, Government

Mangalore, June 27: Over 20 passengers were injured, two of them critically, when a speeding city bus skidded off the ever-busy NH66 and plunged into a gorge near Kallapu on the outskirts of the city on Wednesday. The accident occurred around 11:00 am, when the driver of 'Maroli Travels' bus on rout number 43A plying towards Talapady from the city was trying to overtake another speeding bus. Two

Karwar, June 27: Dozens of angry protesters laid siege to the District Hospital here on Tuesday following the alleged medical negligence which led to the death of a newborn baby. According to relatives of the victim Geeta Premanand Mahale, a resident of Nandanagadda, in Karwar, had given birth to a child in the hospital on June 18. Although the newborn appeared normal, the relatives suspected

Bhatkal, June 27: In a bid to end inter-community clash that broke out following a dispute over a road in Mathadahitlu near Murudeshwar, Uttara Kannada Superintendent of Police K T Balakrishna on Tuesday held a peace meeting. Bhatkal was tense for the last fortnight due to the clash between Namadhari and Moger communities. Mr. Balakrishna, who addressed people from both communities at RNS

Mangalore, June 27: Days after setting up a high school in the backward Newpadpu area near Konaje, Hajabba was back in business in the Hampankatta area here on Monday, selling fruit to earn a living. It has been nearly 10 months since the unlettered man from Harekala was seen in Hampankatta. Mr. Hajabba has followed his dream of setting up a primary school and subsequently a high school at

Mangalore, June 26: India's leading Islamic movement Jamaat-e-Islami Hind has termed the success of Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsi in the Egyptian presidential election as an important political event in the present times. In a media release, JIH president Syed Jalaluddin Umari expressed the hope that the new government of Egypt would further strengthen its longstanding relations with

Udupi, June 26: Former president of Udupi Urban Development Authority Alevoor Nagaraj passed away on Tuesday. He was 65. Udupi Congress sources said that he died of cardiac arrest. An active Congressman Nagaraj had also served as the Alevoor Gram Panchayat member. He was one of the founders of the Sarvajanika Ganeshotsava Samithi in Alevoor. He was unmarried.