Bidar: Rumours being spread over Whatsapp yet again provoked the mob, this time in Bidar to lynch a 32-year-old techie and critically injure three others over suspicions of them being child abductors. The deceased, Mohammad Azam was a software engineer at Google. Azam along with three of his frie

Mysuru: Due to good rainfall this year, Chief Minister H D Kumarswamy called upon the district authorities and elected representatives to plan Dasara celebration in a grand manner. Apart from regular colourful programmes, he also called upon the authorities and elected representatives to come out wi

Mangaluru: The Dakshina Kannada district police have arrested three persons who are alleged to have uploaded an obscene photo of a lady on social media. The arrested have been identified as Sandesh, Jagadish and Naveen. It is gathered that Sandesh had captured nude pictures of the lady after b

Bengaluru: The state Assembly building, Vidhana Soudha, witnessed a rare bonhomie among three arch-rivals: Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy, his predecessor Siddaramaiah and leader of the opposition BS Yeddyurappa on Thursday. A few minutes before the lunch break Yeddyurappa and Siddaramaiah had tra

Mangaluru: The City Crime Branch (CCB) police busted a prostitution racket being carried out from a rental apartment at Kottara Chowki here and arrested two persons, including a woman on Thursday, July 12. Sajith Shekar (30), a Padubidri resident is one of the arrested persons while the identity

New Delhi: A major tragedy was averted after two IndiGo aircraft came face-to-face over Bengaluru airspace, seconds away from a mid-air collision. The incident occurred on Tuesday when 6E 779 (from Coimbatore to Hyderabad) and 6E 6505 (from Bengaluru to Kochi) were just 200 feet away from each ot

Bengaluru: A class nine student of a Bengaluru school committed suicide, on Tuesday night as he was not elected as class leader. The boy, Dhruvraj(14), a student of Baldwin Co-Education Extension High School, RR Nagar was found hanging at his residence in Rajarajeshwarinagar, southwest Bengaluru.

Madikeri: The Excise Department officials arrested two persons for possessing deer meat at Tholpatti Gate, Kutta Gadi here on July 11. The officials confiscated 3.3 kg deer meat from the accused identified as Vijesh and Ajeesh, both residents of Mahe. Acting on a tip-off that the meat of the w

Bengaluru: BM Farooq, a Mangaluru-based businessman and one of the richest MLCs in the Legislative Council has said that he would use the money that he receives as salary and allowance to help needy patients. With assets over Rs 770 crore, as per an election affidavit filed by the JD(S) leader, F

Kundapur: A man engaged in fish farming (pisciculture) had to suffer losses to the tune of Rs 35 lakhs after miscreants allegedly mixed chemicals into a farming pond here at Hosadu near Arate. The incident was known on Monday morning when the fish pond owner Narasimha had gone to feed the prawns

A 22-year-old Integrated MTech student of Indian origin was selected to join Google’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) team with a package of Rs 1.2 crore per year. Aditya Paliwal is among 50 candidates selected from around 6,000 applicants who appeared for a global test conducted by the technology g

Marking a victory for citizens and activists in Bengaluru, a hoarding was pulled down on Saturday after it was put up for the second time in two months. On May 9, as many as 25 trees were cut down at Green Glen Layout between Iblur and Bellandur junctions to increase the visibility for the advertis

Chitradurga: A 75-year-old man convicted of murdering his wife, suspecting infidelity was sentenced to life imprisonment by the district and sessions court in Chitradurga within just 11 days of the crime. Chennabasaiah, the convicted had battered his wife, Putamma, 65, to death in the wee hours o

Mandya: Parents always tell their children that watching too much TV is bad for them. One family learned this the hard way when they were looted right under their nose while they were still in their house... watching TV. The incident happened on the SBI Bank Road in the Vivekananda locality on th

BENGALURU: The state government plans a crackdown on ‘non-performing’ aided schools and one of its proposals is to cut salaries of teachers if SSLC students perform poorly, a recent circular issued by the education department reveals. The government is in the process of analysing performances of ai

Janata Dal (Secular) leader J.K. Krishna Reddy was unanimously elected Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Assembly on Friday. Speaker K.R Ramesh Kumar announced the MLA’s election. He was the only candidate to file nomination papers for the post. Mr. Reddy, 51, was a member of the 13th Legislat

Bengaluru: A cop was given a rather unusual reward after he chased down a thief and brought him to justice despite getting injured in the process. Hanumanth, a policeman attached to the Bellandur police station here, was posted near Big Bazaar on Sarjapur Road on night duty when he heard calls fo

Dharwad: In a horrifying incident, an alcoholic son, angered by his mothers' refusal to give him money to purchase liquor is said to have battered the latter to death in Yalavadala village of Kalagatigi taluk in Dharwad district. The victim has been identified as Shankravva (68). As per reports,