Mangaluru: In two separate incidents, the customs officials recovered gold worth Rs 27,56,436 from passengers at Mangaluru international airport on Thursday.
New Delhi: The Centre Thursday curtailed the tenures of Special Director Rakesh Asthana and three more senior officers in the CBI with immediate effect, days after the agency's chief Alok Verma was shunted out by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led panel.
Wayanad (Kerala): Scripting history, Kerala stormed into the semifinals of the Ranji Trophy for the first time with a 113-run win over Gujarat on the third day of their quarterfinal match here Thursday.
Bengaluru: Justice Lingappa Narayana Swamy was Thursday appointed as the acting chief justice of the Karnataka High Court following the elevation of its chief justice Dinesh Maheshwari to the Supreme Court.
Shivamogga: Despite widespread public awareness and vaccination, the Kyasanur Forest Disease (KFD) has been taking toll in the district. Six persons suffering from fever in Sagar taluk were admitted to Manipal hospital on Wednesday.
Shivamogga: Police on Thursday arrested the Youth Congress workers who tried to lay siege the house of BJP state president BS Yeddyurappa at Vinobanagar in the city and released later.
Panchkula (Haryana): A special CBI court in Panchkula Thursday sentenced self-styled godman Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh and three others to life imprisonment for the murder of a journalist over 16 years ago.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday fixed a February-end deadline for the search committee on Lokpal to recommend a panel of names for appointment of the country's first anti-graft ombudsman.
Bengaluru: Hitting out at the BJP for making "futile attempts" to destabilise his government, Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy Thursday accused the saffron party of keeping its MLAs in "confinement" at a hotel in Gurugram.
Mumbai: Former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly Thursday said "we should move on" from the controversy surrounding Hardik Pandya and K L Rahul's sexist comments because he is sure the two will learn from it and become better persons.
