Karnataka

Mangaluru, May 15: Two days after a woman was found in the city, the Mangaluru police have cracked the case and arrested a couple. The body parts of Srimathi Shetty, a resident of Amar Alva Road in near Monkey Stand, was found inside a gunny bag near a shop off National Highway 66 near Kadri Park in the city on Sunday. On Tuesday, the police arrested Johnas Julin Samson (36) and his wife Victoria

Udupi, May 15: Former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda, who offered prayers at the Sri Krishna temple here on Tuesday, earned the praise of Vishwesha Tirtha Swami of Pejawar Mutt. Mr. Gowda called on the seer to wish him on his 88th birthday. Swami said Mr. Gowda had solved many problems of the country during his short tenure as Prime Minister. “Had Mr. Gowda continued as Prime Minister, he would

Hubballi, May 15: A flying squad of income tax department sleuths raided a room at the Cotton County Club on Gokul Road here late on Monday night and allegedly seized 11 portraits of late minister CS Shivalli, 50 golden bowls, seven voter lists of Kundgol assembly constituency and some campaign material. Following the raid, Gokul Road police booked one local resident, Chandrashekhar Gokavi, under

Mangaluru, May 15: In the wake of growing heatwave and acute water shortage in the region, a group of Muslims offered special prayers in Mangaluru today, seeking rain and prosperity. A considerable number of women also took part in the Salat-al-Istisqa held at Nehru Maidan, in the heart of the city under the open sky. The arrangements were made by the local unit of South Karnataka Salafi Movement

Bengaluru, May 15: The High Court of Karnataka has permitted Mohammed Nalapad Haris, son of MLA N A Haris, to go on a pilgrimage to Makkah in Saudi Arabia between May 15 and June 6. With this, it relaxed the condition imposed on him not to leave the jurisdiction of the trial court while granting him bail in a case related to the attack on a man at a pub-cum-restaurant in Bengaluru’s UB City last

Kasaragod, May 15: The Crime Branch team probing the twin murders of Youth Congress workers Kripesh and Sarath Lal at Kallyot, near Periye, here has arrested two local leaders of the CPI(M) here on the charges of helping the accused escape and destroy evidence. The arrested are CPI(M) Udma area committee secretary K. Manikandan and Periye local committee secretary N. Balakrishnan. They were

Kalaburgi, May 15: Even as talk about who should be occupying the post of Chief Minister has led to much tension in the State in recent days, Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy said on Tuesday that Congress veteran M. Mallikarjun Kharge should have got the post a long time ago. “We, the politicians of the State, are responsible for denying [him] the Chief Minister’s post,” he said emotionally. Mr

New Delhi, May 14: Monsoon rains are expected to arrive on the southern Kerala coast on June 4 and deliver less rainfall than average in 2019, the country’s only private weather forecasting agency said on Tuesday, dampening prospects of higher farm and economic growth in the $2.6 trillion economy. Rains usually lash Kerala state around June 1 and cover the whole country by mid-July. Timely rains

In an attempt to dissuade fish transporters from discharging waste effluents on roads and foul smell in the surroundings, Dakshina Kannada district administration has decided to enforce ‘Kerala model’ to plug the practice of unhygienic fish transportation. The police department has issued a notice to all ‘Fish Transporters’ to retrofit their carriages with leak-proof insulation. Further, the

Hubballi, May 14: Former Karnataka Chef Minister and Congress Legislative Party leader Siddaramaiah today reiterated that he will not contest in the next election. However, he was quick enough to add "that does not mean that I will not become Chief Minister again. Even today I repeat that I will not contest in the next election, but if people bless me why should not I become Chief Minister again