Karnataka

Managaluru, Dec 17: The Dakshina Kannada district police have arrested a 45-year-old man under Pocso Act for allegedly making sexual advances at a 10-year-old girl. The accused has been identified as Shivarama, who reportedly has two wives and has two children from one wife and three from another. The incident occurred at Dolpaty village in Kadaba taluk when the girl was returning from school on

Mangaluru, Dec 17: A 36-year-old man has been sentenced life imprisonment by a local court for raping his 13-year-old daughter. Though the incident took place in 2016, when the minor’s mother was admitted to a hospital for delivery, it came to light a year after. The second additional district and sessions court hearing Pocso cases pronounced the judgement. C Venkataramana Swamy, special public

Kuala Lumpur: Turbulence of today’s chaotic global scenario is a caution to world leaders of all the nations, to focus more on planet health than looking about individual and community health; said Dr. CP Habeeb Rahman, Chairman of Unity Health Complex. He was addressing leaders from various organisations from over a hundred nations who were gathered at Kuala Lumpur to discuss about collective

Bengaluru, Dec 17: A four-year-old LKG student was killed after his reversing school bus mowed him down, seconds after he alighted from it near Anekal on Monday. The bus (KA 51-B-8697), attached to St Peter’s school, Hebbagodi, had no attendant. Y Dikshit, a resident of Kammasandra, came under its rear wheels at 12.45pm when he got down and was walking home, around 10 feet away. Driver Channappa

Belagavi, Dec 17: A woman allegedly murdered her own son and sister-in-law when they came to know of her affair with a man in the village. The woman and her lover have been arrested for the murders that took place in Bellad Bagewaadi village of Hukkeri taluk, Belagavi. The crime came to light on Monday when police arrested the accused on Sunday night. The deceased are Bhagyashree Karigar, 32, and

Bengaluru, Dec 17: Chief minister BS Yediyurappa is under immense pressure to nominate his deputy Laxman Savadi to the legislative council to enable him to continue in office. Savadi, a former MLA, took oath as minister in August, hoping the party will give him a ticket to contest the byelections from Athani. However, the party denied him the ticket and instead promised him a berth in the upper

Mangaluru, Dec 16: Exhorting the people to learn the religion with an open mind, Islamic orator Muhammad Kunhi said that acquiring knowledge about one’s own religion will help to eliminate misconceptions about other religions. In an interaction programme with the local newsmen organised by the Highland Islamic Forum (HIF) as part of its campaign to spread the message of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) at

Bengaluru, Dec 16: Students of IIM Bangalore on Monday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday urging the central government not to curtail the democratic right of citizens to peaceful protest and termed the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) as an 'unjust law.' Students, staff, and faculty at the institute wrote the open letter in solidarity with students around the country protesting

Mangaluru, Dec 16: Dozens of activists of the Campus Front of India (CFI) courted arrest in the city during an aborted protest against the police atrocities on the students of Jamia Millia Islamia University in Delhi and Aligarh Muslim University. To register their protest against the brutality exhibited by the Delhi police, the CFI activists, comprising students of various colleges, blocked the

Udupi, Dec 16: The house of the District and Session Judge was burgled and valuables worth around Rs 4.80 lakh were stolen, police said on Monday. According to police, in her complaint, wife of district and session Judge C M Joshi Shailaja Joshi stated that on November 28 she wanted to deposit her gold ornaments in the new bank locker from her house. When she went to take the gold from the