Mk Madhusoodan Dna

• Action against Bangalore driver after school bus accident kills 13-yr-old

  The driver of the school bus which turned turtle and responsible for the death of a boy would be charged under Section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) of the Indian Penal Code, the Bangalore Rural police said on Friday.Police sources, however, said that the 32-year-old driver, Govindaraju P, would face stringent legal action, if med...

• Infuriated protesters demand repair of Mysore-Nanjangud Road

  The tragic mini-bus accident that resulted in 31 deaths on the Mysore-Nanjangud stretch of NH-212 has unleashed the fury of many. About 2,000 people on Wednesday staged a protest and blocked the road leading to Mysore airport. When the protest extended for almost four hours, the police resorted to lathi-charge and bursting of tear-gas shells. On Tu...

• FIR filed over dog killings in Mandya district

  The Pandavapura police in Mandya district have registered a case against the temple trustees and some villagers following a complaint filed by an animal activist accusing them of killing about 30 dogs in the town on Sunday.The complaint was filed on Sunday by Savitha Nagabhushana, a member of non-governmental organisation People for Animals. The po...

• Bangalore: Almost 30 stray dogs bludgeoned to death

  About 30 stray dogs were butchered by villagers in Arathi Ukkada near Pandavapura railway station in Mandya district on Sunday.Stray dogs had become a menace in Goddess Ahalya Devi's temple, frequented by vehicle owners to ward off evil eye. "Those who had met with accidents also came to worship the deity, seeking her blessings to save them from fu...

• Bishop accused of embezzlement, police investigate

  The Karnataka High Court has ordered the police to complete investigations into alleged embezzlement charges against S Vasanth Kumar, Bishop and moderator of Karnataka Central Diocese, within two months.Earlier, in April this year, a member of the Church of South India (CSI), Sounder Raj, of Kolar Gold Fields, filed a complaint against Bishop Vasan...

• Tipu's 'missile' is just a casing, say experts

  The curiosity surrounding the "missile" found buried in Bamboo Bazaar near Kalasipalya fizzled out after experts clarified that it was just a casing with no explosives inside it.However, experts were suspecting that it might be 300 years old, and had come from Tipu Sultan's armoury, located a few hundred yards away from where it was unearthed.The a...

• Bomb threat to city police headquarters proves hoax

  What happens when police personnel manning the master control room toll-free number '100' receive a bomb threat, that too, when the caller says the their top brass is the target? This is sure to create panic and send the entire city police force on a wild goose chase.But for police commissioner, Shankar M Bidari, it is all part of the game. "I am u...

• Mumbai-based starlet alleges harassment by actor

  When Bhavani Gandhi, an aspiring starlet and a Mumbai-based model was asked to come to Bangalore a fortnight ago, little did she expect that she will return home cheated.In a complaint to the Kumaraswamy Layout police, she accused an aspiring actor, Gowtham Verma, a still photographer and a Kannada movie producer for trying to bring disrepute by ou...