Mangaluru : Konaje police have arrested three persons in connection with a sandalwood smuggling case. Sandalwood logs worth around Rs 25,000 have been seized from them. Those arrested are Majeed alias Nawaz of Beluvai, Sharief alias Duniya Sharief of Bantwal and Lakshman Shetty of Varkady. The accused were arrested near the vicinity of Mangalore University. […]

Bengaluru: Aditya Alva who was recently arrested by the Central Crime Branch (CCB) police in connection with the drugs case has been remanded to judicial custody. Alva, son of former minister Jeevaraj Alva was untraceable since September after his name surfaced in the Sandalwood drugs case. He was arrested on January 11 from Chennai and […]

Sullia : Two persons were arrested by Dakshina Kannada district police after they were found to be smuggling sandalwood, weighing 31 kg in a car at Jalsoor, Sullia here. The arrested have been identified as Ashraf and Unais, both residents of Kodagu have been booked under Indian Penal Code Section 379 and Karnataka Forest Act. […]

Bengaluru: Sandalwood’s ‘power couple’ Yash and Radhika Pandit on Friday got engaged at a beachside star hotel in Goa in the presence of ‘who’s who’ of the Kannada tinsel world. The couple lived their dream to get engaged on a beachside at Taj Vivanta with a white background and dressed in their favourite blue styled […]

Much anticipated Kannada movie Preethi Geethi Ityadi is special for few reasons. It is the on-screen debut of film maker Pawan Wadeyar and directorial debut of newbie Veerendra aka Virus Veerendra, who is another talent from Sandalwood’s ace director Yogaraj Bhat’s camp. For an extent Director Pawan, who is known for his romantic movies like […]

Bangalore : Sandalwood stars and their counterparts from the Kannada TV serial industry descended on the roads of Majestic on Monday, in what was described a show of strength against the move to allow dubbing of films of other languages into Kannada. Several theatres cancelled their morning shows in support of the Kannada film bandh, […]

Bangalore: Around 15 tonnes of rare red sandalwood, valued at Rs.7 crore, were seized yesterday from a truck in Karnataka’s Koppal district when it was being transported illegally to Mumbai from Andhra Pradesh, an official said. “On a tip-off from the director of revenue intelligence, we intercepted the truck with Punjab registration at Kushtagi in […]

Mangalore May 30: Mangalore is a home to the Tulu Film Industry (Kannada film industry) from where Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Sunil Shetty were born and have created waves in Bollywood and internationally. Now Actress Reshma D’souza, is on cloud nine where she is making her Sandalwood debut with movie “Goa” which is […]

Mangalore: The Revenue Intelligence Department has seized  huge quantity of red sandalwood logs worth nearly Rs 2 crores at NMPT and has arrested four persons. The arrests followed a tip off. A container load of  sandalwood was found hidden in plywood consignment and  weighed  over 10 tonnes. Investigations are in progress.  

Bangalore: Will they give him some more good parts to enjoy the work he was doing, or will be take leave? That’s Sudeep for you, contemplating like Buddha, on gutting his roles in films and pursue a new passion that could excite him elsewhere(in hotels?). Sudeep does not wish to flit from one set to […]