MANDYA: A four-year-old boy was fatally shot by a 15-year-old while playing with a loaded firearm at a poultry farm in Dondemadahalli village, Nagamangala taluk, Sunday. The child’s mother also sustained injuries.Nagamangala police said the teenager, who was visiting the farm with his parents, found a single-barrel breech-loading firearm hanging on a wall.Mistaking it for … Read more
PANAJI/BELAGAVI: Former Goa MLA Lavoo Mamledar (68) died in Karnataka’s Belagavi on Saturday after being assaulted by an autorickshaw driver in an instance of road rage. The accused, Amirsuhil Shakilsab Sanadi (26), was arrested and sent to jail.Mamledar’s car brushed against an autorickshaw in Khade Bazaar area, leading to a heated argument between him and … Read more
NEW DELHI: A nurse at a government hospital in Karnataka was suspended on Wednesday for using Fevikwik adhesive instead of proper medical stitches on a seven-year-old boy’s facial wound, following public outrage and an official investigation into the incident.The decision came during a meeting chaired by the state government’s Chief Secretary after reviewing the preliminary … Read more
MANGALURU:MLC Kishore Kumar Puttur strongly condemned the tragic incident in Mandya, where an eight-year-old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted inside her school’s washroom. He stated that the incident once again highlights the complete breakdown of law and order in the state and is a severe blow to the moral values of the country. This shocking … Read more
BENGALURU/KALABURAGI: BR Patil, senior Congress MLA and a close associate of CM Siddaramaiah, created quite a flutter in the state’s political circles Saturday as he resigned from his position as the CM’s political adviser. His sudden exit comes at a time when differences within Congress over clamours for changes in the party’s state leadership have … Read more