Briefs

Bengaluru, Sept 6: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday recollected fond memories of his school teacher who persuaded him to rejoin school after he had dropped out. He was speaking at a programme organised by the department of public instruction on the occasion of Teacher’s Day. “If Rajappa master had not got me readmitted to school, I would not have been standing before you as the chief

Madikeri, Sept 6: K K Pavana, wife of DySP M K Ganapathi, on Tuesday said that the family has got justice to some extent with the Supreme Court ordering a CBI probe into her husband’s suicide. “The family had demanded a CBI probe. But, we did not get enough support in the beginning. I will stand by my father-in-law M K Kushalappa and brother-in-law M K Machaiah in this fight,” she said. Pavana

Bengaluru, Aug 25: C.M. Ibrahim of the Congress has been elected unopposed in the byelection to the Karnataka Legislative Council. As Opposition parties did not field candidates, Mr. Ibrahim was elected unopposed, said Assembly in-charge secretary, S. Murthy. The byelection was necessitated following the death of Vimala Gowda, BJP MLC. The newly elected member’s tenure will end in June 2018. Mr

Kasaragod, Aug 18: The police here seized nearly 22 kg of ganja valued at Rs. 5 lakh and arrested its 30-year-old carrier, Abubacker Siddique, from Kunjathur, near Manjeswar, on Thursday. Initially, the police team led by Kumbla Circle Inspector V.V. Manoj had seized 250 grams of ganja from Abubacker, who resides near Hosabettu beach. Detailed interrogation of the youth led the police team to 10

Mangaluru: S.M. Geleyara Balaga, Bondel, Mangaluru, celebrated the 71st Independence Day in a unique way in the presence of a Border Security Force (BSF) official. M. Sanjeeva Kulal, a resident of Maryhill in the city, who has been serving as an Inspector with the BSF, was the chief guest on the occasion. He unfurled the tricolour. Prajwal, Ashwin, Sanathkumar, Harish and others were among others

Udupi, Aug 13: A 22-year-old man committed suicide by throwing himself in front of a train at Indrali here. According to the Manipal police, the victim has been identified as Prateek Kumar, who worked in a hotel. Prateek Kumar had left the hotel at 6.30 p.m. on Friday, but had not reached his house. As a result, his family began searching for him. At 2.30 a.m. on Saturday, they managed to locate

Mangaluru, Aug 11: The Mangaluru North police arrested three persons from Channapatna allegedly involved in theft of mobile phones in the city. The police have recovered 13 mobile phones. The police gave the names of the arrested persons as Mohammed Irfan Pasha (26), Syed Jubair (22) and Zamir (42). The police said that they were caught while they were reportedly selling the stolen mobile phones

Kasaragod, Aug 6: A 65-year-old man died of fever here on Thursday night. Moideenkunhi, a fisherman from Arikkadi near Kumbala, was under treatment for fever at the District Cooperative Hospital at Kumbla, hospital sources said here on Friday. Moideenkunhi was referred to a hospital here late Thursday, but he died on the way.

Mumbai/New Delhi, Aug 5: Air India failed to pay salaries for July to its employees within the usual timeframe due to “cash deficit”, officials and union members said even as the airline maintained there was nothing abnormal and the payments were made on Friday. Usually, the salary is disbursed at Air India on the last day of the month or the first or second day of the next month. Union

Bengaluru, Aug 4: Commuters in Bengaluru will soon have another app to hail taxis as an association of drivers on Wednesday announced launching of their own app-based cab services called bTag in the coming days. The taxis will operate in Bengaluru and Mysuru and offer services similar to Uber, Ola and new entrants like UTOO and Hi cabs. Another association of drivers, backed by JD(S) leader H D