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Mangaluru:Three students held for ganja consumption

Mangaluru: Barke police on Monday, October 28 arrested three youths for consuming ganja in an apartment at Ballabagh. The arrested identified as Mohammed Nasir (18), a Sakleshpur resident, and Hemanth Tamas (21) and Kuruvilla George (21) both from Kerala have been booked under Narcotic Drugs and

Mangaluru: Family members protest after dead body kept in mortuary decomposes

Mangaluru: Family members of a man who was electrocuted to death on Friday, October 25 staged a protest outside a private hospital in the city after the hospital handed over the decomposed body of the deceased to family. It may be recalled that Wilson Fernandes (26), died of electrocution near Ka

False harassment case against ex-husband: HC tells woman to pay Rs 25k fine

Bengaluru: A Mysuru-based woman has been fined Rs 25,000 by the Karnataka High Court for filing a false case against her former husband only to harass him. Justice P S Dinesh Kumar who was hearing the case quashed the criminal proceedings pending against the petitioner, Faisal Ahmed Khan, a resid

Bengaluru police detains 60 suspected illegal Bangladeshi immigrants

The police in Bengaluru detained as many as 60 persons on Saturday, suspecting them to be illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. There were 29 men, 22 women and nine children, police said. At a press conference led by City Police Commissioner Bhaskar Rao, the police said that these suspected illegal

16-yr-old Mangaluru girl’s remains found 2 weeks after going missing, brother arrested

More than two weeks after a missing case was registered, Mangaluru City Police (MCP) discovered the skeletal remains of a 16-year-old girl in a forest area behind her residence on Saturday evening. Based on the preliminary findings, the jurisdictional police said that they suspect it to be remains o

20-ft apple garland, folk dances: DK Shivakumar receives grand welcome in Bengaluru

"DK Saheb is arriving. The whole city will celebrate," blared a song, tailor-made for the arrival of Kanakpura MLA DK Shivakumar in Bengaluru. Thousands of Congress party workers and fans of the former Water Resource Minister gathered outside the Devanahalli Toll Plaza in Bengaluru at around 12 pm

Capture of wild elephant in Bandipur sparks fresh debate on GPS-enabled radio collars

On Thursday, forest officials in Bandipur Tiger Reserve were faced with a tough operation - to capture an elephant which had attacked two residents of a village on the periphery of the tiger reserve. The elephant was fitted with a GPS-enabled radio collar just a month ago but forest officials inv

Bengaluru: Upset over ragging, BSc student ends life by jumping before moving train

Bengaluru: A first-year B Sc (Agriculture) student of the University of Agriculture Sciences in Bengaluru is suspected to have ended his life by jumping before a moving train allegedly due to ragging by his seniors. The deceased has been identified as Gagan, a native of Gauribidanur in Kolar. His

ED moves SC against Delhi HC order granting bail to DKShi

Bengaluru/New Delhi: Two days after the Delhi high court granted bail to Congress leader DK Shivakumar in a money laundering case, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday filed a petition in the Supreme Court against bail order. Earlier on October 23, the Delhi High Court Justice Sures

DK Shivakumar’s release from jail gives boost to Congress in Karnataka bye-polls

The BJP’s predicted victory in the Maharashtra and Haryana Assembly poll results on Thursday is now expected to turn the Assembly bye-polls in Karnataka scheduled on December 5 from hotly contested to determining the credentials and political survival of two personalities – state Chief Minister BS Y

Farmers throw vegetables on roads following dip in prices

Mysuru: The farmers on Thursday threw heaps of vegetable including tomato, cauliflower and others on the road at APMC Market in Mysuru, following a reduction in their prices. Heavy rainfall in the state since the past few days in the state is creating a desperate situation for the farmers where t

Karnataka Congress leader DK Shivakumar gets bail in money laundering case

Karnataka Congress leader DK Shivakumar, who was lodged in Tihar Jail in connection with a money laundering case, was awarded bail by the Delhi High Court on Wednesday. Justice Suresh Kait granted relief to the Congress leader saying that Shivakumar is not a flight risk. The judge also said that

Ganja racket: 31 arrested in Bengaluru

Bengaluru: Bengaluru City North division police and sleuths of the Central Crime Branch (CCB) intensified their raids on the ganja racket operating in the city. The North division police arrested 24 people and CCB police seven across the city. The North division police under the directions of

Karnataka rains: IMD issues red warning for all three coastal districts

The Indian Meteorological Department has issued a red warning for all the three districts of coastal Karnataka for the next three days starting from Wednesday. An orange warning has been issued to some districts of north and south interior Karnataka. The red warning means the coastal dist

Car crashes into mosque compound, goes soaring in air

Mangaluru: In a shocking incident a Maruti Omni car went soaring in the air before crashing down after ramming into the compound wall of a mosque at Farangipet here on Tuesday, October 22 afternoon. Five persons sustained injuries in the accident. A CCTV footage of the accident shows the car, bel

141 prisoners to walk free for good conduct

Bengaluru: Karnataka State Prisons Department will be releasing 141 prisoners from various prisons across the state on Monday on account of good conduct. Minister V Somanna will distribute the certificate of good conduct for the prisoners at the main event at Parappana Agrahara. The inmate who

Abandoned box explodes at Karnataka's Hubballi Railway Station, 3 injured

A minor explosion was reported on Monday afternoon at the office of the station master at Hubballi Railway Station in Karnataka. According to reports, three persons were injured as a result of the explosion. Hubbali is the headquarters of the South Western Railway division of the Indian Railways.

Karnataka students made to wear cartons on their heads to avoid copying in exams

Around 50 students writing the mid-term examination at a college in Karnataka's Haveri district were forced to wear cartons on their heads to avoid copying in exams. The pictures of students of Bhagat PU college wearing cartons on their heads and writing the exam inside a classroom were shared wi