Karnataka

Bangalore / Mangalore, August 1: Home Minister R Ashoka on Tuesday said the State government will book the accused in the homestay attack case in Mangalore under the Goonda Act, and it will not show any mercy to anybody while taking action. In Mangalore, police arrested three more men in connection with the attack on students at a homestay in Padil on Saturday, taking the total number of arrested

Mangalore, August 1: Leaders and workers of Congress party, activists and representatives of various organisations and hundreds other on Wednesday paid their last respects to former District Youth Congress chief Bondala Jagannath Shetty in the city. People in large numbers turned up to pay their tribute to the late leader whose mortal remains were kept in front of District Congress Office, here

Mangalore, July 31: A common factor in India and Israel is that people of both countries possess an innovative approach, said Orna Sagiv, Consul General of Israel. She was delivering a talk on Indo-Israel trade relations at the Kanara Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Mangalore, on Tuesday. Innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship ability are three things that Israeli people possess in

Mangalore, July 31: Sriramulu, the political heavyweight from Bellary, who will emerge as the next chief minister of Karnataka after elections, will ensure that incidents like pub attack and homestay attack are not repeated, said Girish Rai, Convenor of the Sriramulu Sankalpa Yatra convention to be held in Mangalore on August 2. Addressing media persons at Press Club in Mangalore on Monday, Mr

Mangalore, July 31: “I would think twice about enrolling my children in some of the colleges in Mangalore,'' Commissioner of Police and father of two children Seemant Kumar Singh said on Monday. Making this admission two days after vigilantes attacked young revellers at a birthday party, the Commissioner highlighted what he described as petty politicking and a heavily polarised environment. “This

Mangalore, July 31: Close on the heels of young boys and girls being attacked at a homestay birthday party in Padil by Hindutva activists, another incident of moral policing has been reported in the city on Tuesday. However, this time, it is the police themselves who donned the role 'moral policemen'. A group of students who were waiting for a bus at the city's service bus stand were made to

Mangalore, July 31: In simultaneous raids, Lokayukta sleuths searched the residences and office of two senior government officers on Tuesday in three different parts, and unearthed assets disproportionate to their known sources of income. Accused have been identified as Rathnakar Naik, Deputy Director, Food and Civil Supplies, Chikmagalur, and Raghupal G, ATPO, Mangalore City Corporation, in three

Bangalore, July 31: Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar, on Monday, strongly condemned the incident of assault on girls and boys by Hindu Jagaran Vedike activists in Mangalore and promised toughest action against those involved. Replying to the discussion on the incident in the Legislative Assembly, Shettar said the government had been taking steps to ensure punishment to the perpetrators. As many as

Bangalore, July 31: Two days after thugs brutalised some young men and women at a homestay in Mangalore, the Opposition Congress squarely blamed the ruling BJP for the recurrence of such barbaric incidents in the district. Congress leader Siddaramaiah on Monday said in the Assembly that the government's failure to take stringent action against the habitual offenders was the main reason for a

Manipal, July 31: A painting of Tirthak Saha, a third semester student of International Centre for Applied Sciences (ICAS), a constituent of Manipal University, depicting earth in peril won the first prize at a national-level competition. According to a press release issued by Manipal University here on Monday, the painting depicted the warming earth and melting Polar ice caps amidst the doomsday