Davanagere: The District Crime Branch police rescued a girl and nabbed three women of a gang that was forcing underage girls into prostitution here. District Superintendent of Police (SP) R Chetan informed media on August 10 that the police had arrested three women-Geeta (33), Anita alias Kavya (

Mysuru: The Project Elephant Division of the Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change has decided to confer the “Elephant Warrior Award” posthumously to Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer Dr. S Manikandan, said a release by the ministry published on Thursday, August 9. The award

Udupi: Sleuths of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) on Thursday, August 9, arrested two persons from Udupi in connection with the murder of activist journalist Gauri Lankesh. Reports said that the accused Sandesh Shetty Padebettu (28) and Yuvaraj Kanchinadka (30) were taken into custody by the

Bengaluru: Come October, the Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) will operate 80 electric buses, including 60 A/C and 20 non-A/C midibuses in the city. According to sources at the BMTC, this scheme is being implemented in partnership with the union government. The central governme

Shivamogga: The forest officials have arrested a person for poaching a deer and attempting to smuggle its antlers at Thamadihalli in the Shettihalli Wild Life Sanctuary limits here on Tuesday, August 7. The accused is identified as Raju, a resident of Thamaddihalli. According to forest department

Bengaluru: In an interesting turn of events, the arrest of three pickpocketers here has enabled the Ramamurthynagar police nab the culprits who had burgled the house of a retired IGP on June 11. Amaresh, a resident of Vijayapura in the North Karnataka region, worked as a mason in the city. During

BELAGAVI: Yakkundi village near Vijayapura wasn’t celebrating just any birthday. Its oldest resident — Sayavva Siddappa Tambake — turned 109 years young on August 3. And the village celebrated the momentous occasion in a grand manner.Wearing a beautiful Ilkal saree in dark green with a red border an

Karnataka on Tuesday launched a round-the-clock information and grievance helpline for Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) across the state. "The 'Kalyana Kendra' (welfare centre) helpline will allow members of these communities to get information on the state's welfare programmes f

A leopard that had been spreading panic among villagers near Kundapur in Karnataka's Udupi district for the last few weeks has been trapped by forest department officials. The animal was caught at Malady village near Kundapur on Sunday, people familiar with the matter said. Villagers said after t

Mysuru: Four from a family met a watery grave here as a vehicle they were travelling in plunged into an open canal at Kamaravalli in Periyapatna Taluk. The deceased have been identified as Palaniswami (50), his wife Sanju (40), daughter Poornima (17) and son Nikhil (15). It is gathered that th

Shivamogga: A tense situation prevailed at Ranganathapura, Shikaripura after a Dargah building was demolished to facilitate the road widening work on Saturday, August 4. Several people gathered at the spot objecting to the demolition of the building and got into a verbal spat with the officials o

The Central Crime Branch (CCB) of Karnataka arrested 24-year old Prashanth Poojary on Friday (3 August) night taking suo moto notice of a post on Facebook, The News Minute has reported. Poojary, a Kudla native, is the admin of the Facebook page Kudla Trolls where a post ‘trolling’ the Karnataka C

Karnataka has now joined the ranks of States that are using unmanned aerial systems (UAS) or drones in governance. The State on Thursday launched a pilot project under which drones will be used in agriculture, urban development and policing. The demonstrative application projects using drones

Bagalkot: The mutilated body of a four-year-old boy was recently found at Bundagani village in the Rabakavi Banahatti taluk of the Bagalkote district. The victim has been identified as Muthappa Amajogola. Reportedly, the killers had chopped off his genitals, and had even made away with an earring

Shivamogga: The excise department in Shivamogga is going high-tech. They have decided to use drones to identify the ganja (marijuana) growing fields and their producers effective from Wednesday, August 1. A demo was organized at Kunchenalli village on Thursday. The drone camera team was accompanied

The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in Bengaluru on Thursday arrested a woman who was trying to smuggle cocaine and ketamine by hiding the substances in packets of noodles kept in her handbag. Authorities said that she was travelling from Mumbai to Bengaluru with the drugs. The accused was identif

Bengaluru: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) which is probing the murder of journalist and activist Gauri Lankesh has inched further by seizing two bikes used by the culprits to execute the murder plan. The bikes were seized on Wednesday from a house in Kunigal by a police team led by CPI Raju

Bengaluru: The call for a bandh across 13 districts in north Karnataka received almost no public response and the local authorities have dubbed it a total failure. The JDS-Congress government in Karnataka successfully doused the fire by turning the tables on the opposition BJP which they claim was b