Raichur: An ambulance van carrying the dead body of Lingappa who died in Bangalore, to his native village Hathikuni in Yadgir taluk, met with a road accident on NH 23 at 4AM(early hours of Tuesday) near Gadesugur in Sindhnoor taluk of Raichur district, killing 11 persons on the spot. A lorry dashed head-on against the [...]

Bangalore: A three-month-old baby girl, Afreen, has been battling for her life in a city hospital in Bangalore. She was admitted with cigarette burns on the forehead and posterior and neck dislocated. The baby’s mother claims that it was her husband who tried to kill the baby. Afreen’s mother Reshma Bhanu claims that the baby’s [...]

Beijing: Authorities have indicted five people in central China for involvement in illegal organ trading after a teenager sold one of his kidneys to earn money to buy an iPhone and an iPad. The official Xinhua News Agency says prosecutors in the city of Chenzhou charged the suspects with intentional injury for organizing the removal [...]

Bangalore : Swami Nityanand, who was arrested in a ‘sex CD’ scandal in March 2010 and is presently out on bail, has been charged with forced unnatural sex with a foreigner who is an IIT graduate of Indian origin. A chargesheet has been filed against Nityanand in Bangalore’s Ramnagaram court, under section 377, on March [...]

Koraput : Maoists guerrillas on Tuesday set April 5 deadline for the government to concede to their demands to secure release of abducted BJD MLA Jhina Hikaka. According to reports, Maoist-backed Chasi Mulia Adivasi Sangh today sent an audio tape to a private TV news channel, asking the state government to release their jailed comrades [...]

Bangalore:  The Karnataka government on Saturday appointed Abdul Rehman Infant as the state’s new police chief, shunting out incumbent Shankar Bidari to the Karnataka State Police Housing Board. The shuffle of the top police brass came a day after a division bench of the Karnataka High Court Friday upheld the March 16 order of the [...]

Mascow : Demolition of the biggest Hindu temple in Russia is imminent now after after an arbitration court in St Petersburg ruled in favour of the state institution that sought cancellation of the lease deed with the Vedic Society for Spiritual Development managing the Temple in the area. The Federal Arbitration Court of the North-West [...]

New Delhi : Indian Government has put on hold the execution of a prisoner, sentenced to death for his role in the 1995 murder of Punjab state’s Chief Minister Beant Singh. Balwant Singh Rajoana’s hanging, which had been set for Saturday, was postponed after a mercy petition to the president, the Home Ministry said. Several [...]

Bangalore:  In Karnataka, allegations of a land scam executed by politicians, middlemen and officials of the state’s Waqf Board have been presented in a new report that has been shared with the chief minister V Sadananda Gowda, who heads the BJP government.  Here are five facts on this story: 1) What is the scam? In [...]

Kabul:  The US soldier accused of an Afghan village massacre that further strained already-frayed Afghan-US ties was charged with 17 premeditated murders on Friday, although he may not be tried for two years. Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, of the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment, was also accused of six counts of assault and attempted murder [...]