Kasaragod, Aug 26: The police have registered cases against 16 students of two institutions here on charges of ragging.
The police registered cases against 12 students of Iqbal Higher Secondary School for allegedly harassing junior students by forcing them to shell out money and later tortured them for failing to oblige, the police said.
Similar cases were registered against four wards of Sree Nityananda Engineering College here.
No arrests have been made in connection with the incidents.
Bengaluru, Jul 22: Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Vala, had appointed five persons to the Karnataka Legislative Council, which remained vacant, including former ministers H Vishwanath and C P Yogeshwar, here on Wednesday.
In a Raj Bhavan communique issued here on Wednesday, it was stated that the Governor had accepted the names suggested by the Chief minister B S Yediyurappa, to fill the vacancies in the Upper House.
Apart from H Vishwanath, and Yogeshwar, the others who were nominated to the Council, were former MLA Bharathi Shetty, Shantharama Budna Siddi, and Talwar Sabanna.
Bengaluru, May 7: Karnataka Minister for Labour Shivaram Hebbar, on Thursday, ordered issuance of notice to employers who have not paid salary to the workers during lockdown period amid Coronavirus threat in the state.
The Ministry has also directed serving notice to those employers who have reduced the wages of the workers in April '20, official sources told UNI here.
State Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa had appealed to the employers not to retrench any employee from the job because of their failure to attend to work because of Coronavirus which is spreading like wildfire and since they have been asked to remain in the house.
Dharward, Jul 25: In a shocking incident, a man reportedly killed his wife and daughter by feeding them poison and ended his life by hanging in his house. The incident took place in Dharwad on Saturday.
The deceased have been identified as Mounesh Pattar (36), his wife Arpita (28) and their four-year-old daughter Sukruta.
Mounesh was working in a private company in Dharwad and was depressed from the last one week fearing job loss.
It was alleged that he might lose his job as the management decided to remove more than 40 employees due to covid -19 lockdown.
On Friday late night, he reportedly gave poison to his wife and daughter and later committed suicide by hanging self. The incident came to light on Saturday morning.
A case is registered at Sub Urban police station and further investigation is on.
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