Briefs

Bengaluru, Oct 8: A 40-year-old man was mauled to death by a white tiger at Bannerghatta Biological Park on Saturday evening. The victim Anji lived in the nearby Hakki Pikki Colony, and had taken up the post of caretaker on temporary basis only a week ago. The enclosure that is home to three tigers has three gates, one of which opens into the safari area. Every morning, this gate is opened for

Kasaragod, Oct 4: Abdul Nafi, a Class X student from Badiadukka, drowned in the Canoli Canal in Thrissur on Monday. Nafi, son of Muhammed of Mookampara near Badiadukka, was studying at R.M. Vocational Higher Secondary School at Perinjanam in Thrissur. He drowned in the flooded canal while having a bath with two of his friends around 4.30 p.m. on Monday. Nafi slipped and fell when he was washing

Kasaragod, Oct 4: Buses carrying Bharatiya Janata Party workers to Payyanur to attend a public meeting there in connection with the Janaraksha Yatra led by State president Kummanam Rajasekharan were allegedly attacked by CPI(M) workers on Tuesday morning. No BJP workers were injured in the incident at Pallikkare, near Neeleswaram. Traffic disrupted BJP district president K. Sreekanth rushed to the

Kasaragod, Oct 3: The Kerala State Housing Board is actively planning to launch a special housing scheme for non-resident Keralites (NoRKs), Housing Minister E. Chandrasekharan has said. The government had also come out with a package to provide decent accommodation for the five-lakh-odd homeless in the State, he said, inaugurating the World Habitat Day observance. The government was now mulling

Kasargod, Oct 3: At least three Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers were injured in a clash involving Communist Party of India (Marxist) workers at Neeleswaram late Monday night. The incident occurred on the Neeleswaram market road at 9.30 p.m. after flags and other decorations erected in the town by BJP loyalists were allegedly vandalised by CPI(M) workers. The clash that followed resulted in

Chikkamagaluru, Sept 20: As many as six officials attached to the Tanigebailu range of the Forest Department were allegedly assaulted by timber smugglers near Saidukhan village in Tarikere taluk on Sunday night. The officers attacked are forest officials. They are Praharsha Kumar, deputy range forest officer, Raghavendra, forest guard, Vasanth Kumar, Sampreeth, Mahesh – all forest guards and

Bengaluru, Sept 15: Income Tax officials on Thursday raided Kalyani Group in Bengaluru and other parts of the country. Simultaneous raids were conducted at eight premises, officials said. Several teams of I-T officials searched the premises belonging to the group in Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Chennai. The companies raided include, Kalyani Motors and Kalyani Developers. The directors of Kalyani

Udupi, Sept 12: Abhinav Karaba K., a 7th semester Mechanical Engineering student of Sri Madhwa Vadiraja Institute of Technology and Management (SMVITM), Bantakal, won the ‘Best Student Award’ in the Karnataka section at the 14th ISTE State Level Student Convention 2017 at GM Institute of Technology, Davangere, on September 8

Bengaluru, Sept 6: Not entirely happy with the performance of the five revenue-generating departments, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has asked them to pull up their socks. Siddaramaiah on Tuesday reviewed the progress of tax/revenue collection by the Commercial Taxes, Excise, Transport, Stamps and Registration and Mines and Geology Departments, after the implementation of GST. On learning that not

New Delhi, Sept 6: Schoolteachers from Karnataka have won as many as 16 national awards for their outstanding contribution to education. Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu gave away the awards at a Teachers’ Day function here on Tuesday. The award carries a silver medal, a certificate and a cheque for Rs 50,000. Rathnamma B M got the national award for her contribution to increasing the enrollment in