Karnataka

Mangalore, June 26: A Muslim boy was allegedly assaulted by members of an organization for being with a girl belonging to Hindu community late on Sunday night. The boy from Bantwal and the girl, a call centre employee from Shaktinagar, were followed by a group of men, allegedly belonging to a local Hindu outfit, around 8 p.m. into a deserted spot where the Muslim boy was assaulted. The Mangalore

Udupi, June 25: In a brutal crime, a middle aged housewife was strangled to death by the miscreants, who tightening a choodidar shawl around her neck, at Gundyam, in Kemmannu village here on Monday. The deceased is Shakunthala (40), wife of Ashok Poojary, a nonresident Indian. The couple has two daughters studying in SSLC and PUC. They had had shifted to Gundyam from Badanidiyoor recently. The

Mangalore, June 25: The online counselling for CET rank holders was commenced on Monday at the Mangalore CET helpline centre set up at the silver jubilee auditorium of National Institute of Technology - Karnataka (NITK), on the outskirts of the city. The hectic process of verification of documents for rank number one onwards is expected to continue till July 11 at 13 Helpline Centres across the

Mangalore, June 25: Members of the Campus Front of India (CFI) held a protest in front of the Deputy Commissioner's office, here on Monday against the state BJP leaders, who called for the 'saffronisation' of education. The protesters raised slogans against K S Eshwarappa, BJP State President, Vishweshwara Hegde Kageri, State Education Minister and Nalin Kumar Kateel, Mangalore MP, who have

Mangalore, June 25: A protest against the district administration demanding payment of rent and promised sanction of land for displaced Adivasi families was held in front of the Deputy Commissioner's office in Mangalore on Monday. The protest was organized jointly by CPI (M), Karnataka State Adivasi Rights Committee, and Dalit Rights Committee, Mangalore. Following Mangalore- BC Road four laning

Bangalore, June 25: Kerala High Court on Monday issued notices to the Centre and Air India on petitions by relatives of two cabin crew who perished in the May 2010 Mangalore air crash that claimed 158 lives seeking compensation of Rs75 lakh as stipulated by the Montreal Convention. When the petitions by Syed Iqteder Ali, father of Mohammed Ali (25) from Bhopal and Panchami Rana, mother of Yugantar

Mangalore, June 25: With doctors in Dakshina Kannada, Udupi and Uttara Kannada joining the daylong nationwide strike called by the Indian Medical Association, medical services across the coastal Karnataka were remained paralysed on Monday. The strike was called in protest against the proposed National Commission for Human Resources in Health (NCHRH) Bill, 2011. Most of the private hospitals

Mangalore, June 25: Another incident where a Church property has been tampered with in Mangalore, surfaced on Monday at Holy Hill near Pumpwell in the city. The lighting on the Cross atop the Servants of Lord prayer hall at Holy Hill was found to be tampered with, besides broken flower pots. The lamp at the site of the Cross has also been damaged. “Like always, I had closed the main gate at 7:15

Kasargod, June 25: More than two years after the Mangalore air crash that left 158 dead, families of the four-member cabin crew of the ill-fated Air India Express aircraft are awaiting compensation, with one family approaching the Kerala High Court. Parents and sister of Mohammed Ali, a flight steward from Bhopal who died when the aircraft crashed on May 22, 2010, has filed a petition at the high

Kochi, June 25: The campaign for the nomination of 39 serial sites of the Western Ghats as a world heritage site will be renewed at the 36th session of the World Heritage Committee (WHC) which will begin at St. Petersburg on Sunday. A decision on the nominated sites will be taken by a 21-nation panel including India. The task of the panel will be to “identify the cultural and natural properties of