Bangalore : Three election officials died of cardiac arrest, at different places in the State on Sunday, according to reports from Madhugiri, Haveri and Honnavar. Thimmaiah, 57, an assistant agriculture officer at the Watershed Development Department in Tiptur, who was deployed as presiding officer at Teriyur polling booth in Madhugiri, suffered a massive heart attack […]
Singapore: The 23-year-old girl, who was gang-raped and severely beaten on a bus in New Delhi died early Saturday at a Singapore hospital, after her horrific ordeal galvanized Indians to demand greater protection from sexual violence that impacts thousands of women every day. She “passed away peacefully” with her family and officials of the Indian […]
Mangalore: Lancelotot D’Souza alias Vincy(40) of Jeppu Bappal in Mangalore and his nephew Sharun D’Souza (26) of Kuttar who worked for a construction company at Muscat died due to suffocation on December 23, Sunday. It is learnt the coal they lit in their room to bear with the cold resulted in a thick smoke leading […]
London : Ireland on Tuesday announced it will legalise abortions when the mother’s life is at risk, weeks after the death of Indian dentist Savita Halappanavar who died after being refused an abortion in the European country. The decision comes after a huge public outcry over the death of 31-year-old Savita, who died on October […]
Bangalore: An overdose of chloroform is learnt to have led to the death of TV star Hemashree. Medical reports of the star have confirmed this. It may be mentioned here that Hemashree had fallen ill while travelling in a car from Bangalore to Ananthpur recently and was declared dead in the hospital. The autopsy of […]
Bantwal : State Minister for Ports and Mujrai Kota Srinivas Poojari visited the residence of the two young boys who died of rat fever at Mittaparari in B Mooda village recently. He was accompanied by District BJP President Padmanabha Kottari and others leaders. On this occasion, the minister instructed authorities to maintain cleanliness and ensure […]
Kasargod: Three members of a family including a middle aged woman and her two children, died when they were crushed by a moving train near Trikkaripura railway station on August 9, Thursday. It is still not known if it was a suicide or an accident. The deceased are Komalavalli (52) of Mayyil Kannur, Shivaprasad(30) and […]
Washington: Sally Ride, who blazed trails into orbit as the first American woman in space, died Monday of pancreatic cancer. She was 61. Ride died at her home in the San Diego suburb of La Jolla, said Terry McEntee, a spokeswoman for her company, Sally Ride Science. She was a private person and the details […]
Bangalore: Police have arrested four persons in connection with the recent murder of KAS officer Mahantesh. According to sources, senior police officials had hired supari killers to finish off the sincere officer who had busted several irregularities in the co-operative housing scheme and had ordered an enquiry into the same. Mahantesh was attacked by some […]