Karnataka

Mangalore, June 23: A man was crushed to death by a train near Yekkur Railway bridge on the outskirts of the city on Thursday morning. The deceased whose identity could not be ascertained, was wearing a white shirt and black trousers and is believed to be aged between 40 and 45 years. The severity of the accident, which said to be occurred at around 8:30 am, was such that the man's both legs were

Mangalore, June 23: Mangalore City Police have arrested two persons for selling stolen property to a jewellery store here. The arrested are Muhammad Shareef (28), son of late M Abbas and resident of Belma in Deralakatte village and Raees Muhammad Raja (21), son of Abdul Hameed and resident of Uliya road at Ullal. They are accused of assisting Jamaluddin, the prime accused in the extortion case

Mangalore, June 23: N Yogish Bhat, the MLA of Mangalore South constituency, under whose limits, the street vendors has been facing the wrath of Mangalore City Corporation on Thursday skipped a scheduled meeting with the representatives of Beedhi Badi Vyaparasthara Horata Samiti. The Samiti, which has been fighting against MCC's eviction drive against street vendors in the busy areas of the city

Mangalore, June 23: The Federation of Karnataka Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FKCCI) has conferred Diya Systems (Mangalore) Pvt. Ltd. (GlowTouch Technologies); a US based IT/ITES Company with the most Prestigious Export Excellence Award 2011 – GOLD for the fourth consecutive year, at an event organised at Bangalore recently. Diya Systems has received the FKCCI Gold Award for being one of the

Mangalore, June 23: Following a heated debate with street vendors which almost resulted in chaos at the Central Market area yesterday, the Civic Tiger squad succeeded in displacing four sugarcane juice stalls, near State Bank here on Thursday. In order to avoid chaotic scenes like yesterday, a large number police officers were present at the spot as the civic tiger squad seized bundles of

Mangalore, June 23: The vision of government should be aimed at betterment of citizens, but due to number of scams, centre as well as state governments are more worried about finding ways to protect themselves rather than thinking of development of the country, said Mohammed Rafiq, Chief Secretary, H.M.S (Workers Organization). He was addressing the agitators who gathered in front of Deputy

Mangalore, June 23: Those who donate blood surely won't shed the blood of others. Donating blood to an ill person, who is a bread winner of the family, is like supporting the whole family and the purpose of donating the blood should be to get rewards from Allah, said Mohammed Kunhi, Convener, JIH Youth Wing. He was speaking on the third blood donation camp conducted by Jamath-e-Islami Hind, Bunder

Mangalore, June 23: Since there has been no rain in Dakshina Kannada for the past several days Baba Narendra Dev, decided to go on a severe fast unto death between breakfast and lunch. As it was approaching lunch time, Devendra, the god in charge of rain appeared and told him that he would have been glad to give rain, but there were some 81 students of Gandhi Nagar Higher Primary school in

Mangalore, June 23: Annoyed by the appearance of an article on Muslim girl's educational achievement in a regional Kannada daily, the president of the management committee of a mosque, along with his sons went on a rampage against her family after storming into their home. The strange incident took place at Thalemogaru, a small hamlet near Sajipapadu village in Bantwal taluk. Following the

Mangalore, June 23: With the return of her 22-year-old son Javed Ali, who was arrested along with his father Mohammed Ali on October 3, 2008, on terrorism charges, Maimoona is worried about his education. Speaking to The Hindu from her home in Ullal, Maimoona, aged about 41, says that she has already spoken to the authorities at her son's old college. “They have told me that they will get back to