In an apparent attack at the BJP, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday asked why people like BJP MLA and rape accused Kuldeep Singh Sengar are given the "protection of political power", while their victims are abandoned to battle for their lives alone.

Cafe chain Coffee Day Enterprises on Tuesday confirmed that it's Chairman and Managing Director V G Siddhartha has been missing since Monday evening.

Mangaluru: Mangaluru Police Commissioner, Sandeep Patil on Tuesday morning confirmed that Siddhart, the founder owner of Café Coffee Day group and son-in-law of former CM SM Krishna, VG Siddhartha had jumped off Nethravathi brigde on late Monday night and was since missing.

Mangaluru: Thousands of people on Tuesday morning attended the funeral rites of Al Haj P. M Abbas Musliyar Ustad, who passed away on Monday afternoon at a private hospital in Deralakatte after brief illness here in Mangaluru.

 The Uttar Pradesh government on Monday night recommended a CBI probe into a road accident in which the Unnao rape survivor and her lawyer were critically injured and her two aunts killed.

More than 150 passengers of a Mumbai-bound IndiGo flight from the city survived a scare on Monday evening when the pilot aborted take-off at the last minute at the Raja Bhoj airport here due to a technical glitch in the aircraft's wheels, an official said.

Fifteen people were killed when a small military plane crashed early Tuesday into a residential area in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi near the capital Islamabad, a rescue official told AFP.

Bantwala: Senior political leader and former Karnataka Chief Minister SM Krishna's son-in-law and owner of Cafe Coffee Day group, Siddharth on Monday late night has allegedly committed suicide by jumping off Nethravathi Bridge in Mangaluru.