Ravi Shetty

Bengaluru's small eateries and condiment shops face closure due to a severe commercial LPG cylinder shortage, forcing them to the black market at exorbitant prices. Protests highlight their plight as they're penalized for using domestic cylinders while illegal sales thrive, contrasting with official claims of robust distribution.

The Mulund police recently arrested two quacks who posed as Ayurveda practitioners and conned unsuspecting citizens by promising to cure any ailment within a week. Investigators are now hunting for two more members of the gang of four.

In a bloody fallout of a long-running property battle, hotelier Mohan Shetty shot at and critically wounded his elder brother Manohar in the presence of their mother at an advocate’s office.

ravi shetty Byndoor, president, Karnataka Karmika Vedike, saved his pet dog from being constricted and swallowed by a python at his farmhouse in Golihole village, Byndoor, on Tuesday. In turn, the python was also rescued and returned to its habitat.

Take a more sensitive approach, the Bombay high court told the ministry of civil aviation on Monday after asking it to explain its stand on granting childcare leaves to female employees.

Three policemen, including an assistant inspector, were suspended following the escape of Shetty, who is suspected to be involved in over 100 house break-ins.

The CSR wing of the Adani Foundation has distributed a scholarship worth Rs 20 lakh to the identified meritorious students residing in 12 Grama Panchayats around the UPCL plant. As many as 755 students received the scholarship benefits in the programme organized at Buntara Bhavan in Padubidri.

Four fake doctors have been arrested for allegedly cheating people by claiming they could cure various diseases with ayurvedic medicines, police said today.

PUNE: Hotel owners have indicated that they would cancel all Christmas and New Year’s eve parties this year if the district administration failed to revoke its ‘entry fee’ rule.

In an incident that will warm the cockles of the heart and typifying the communal amity in Dakshina Kannada district, a Hindu youth prevented a Muslim from drowning in the Nethravathi at Uppinangady on Friday.

Two persons who were allegedly betting on the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket matches were nabbed by the Ulhasnagar crime unit of Thane police on Monday late night.

The District Crime Intelligence Bureau arrested three persons at Ajjarkad Gandhi Park in Udupi town Tuesday evening. The trio is wanted by the district police in an abduction case of a businessman in Karkala in March 2010.

PUNE: If you love your drink, you better take your fill or stock your bar before April 1, when owners of hotels, bars and liquor shops in the city go on strike to protest against the steep hike in license fees.

A police sub-inspector and two constables were suspended from duty by the city police after a wanted criminal escaped while in their custody.

The ATS has started investigations into claims by a Kurla resident, Abdullah Latif Rauf Shaikh, that he overheard four men on Monday discussing plans to plant bombs in Mumbai, at the Kalyan Guest House hotel, opposite the railway station.

The fourth edition of ‘Namoora Habba-2017,’ a festival of coastal Karnataka’s culture, folk arts, traditions, sports and lifestyle, will be held under the aegis of Abhinandana Samskruthika Trust at Chandra Gupta Maurya Stadium, Jayanagar, Bengaluru, on January 21 and 22.

City-based kabaddi franchise U Mumba have always been a force to reckon with in Pro Kabaddi. They reached the final in the first three seasons with a title triumph in season 2.

PUNE: The Pune office of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has decided to intensify its drive against illegal sale of gutkha. Despite a ban on sale, manufacture, display and stocking of gutkha in the state, cases of shops selling the product are being reported regularly.

In a swift action, Ponda police nabbed two men from Maharashtra from a Panaji hotel late Wednesday in connection with three housebreaks in Ponda town and its outskirts. All three thefts occurred in a single day, on Tuesday, between 7.30am and 6.30pm. The accused have been remanded to four days police custody.

Lal had caused a loss of Rs 347 crore by wrongful allotment of plots when he was the managing director of CIDCO.

The Dahisar police have arrested three persons in connection with a fake documents racket.

The Bombay high court on Tuesday Issue notice to the Mumbai civic chief Ajoy Mehta, to remain present in court personally on Friday at 3pm and "show cause as to why no action is taken against him for interference with justice.

Four men were arrested by the Andheri (E) police on Wednesday for running an Ayurvedic clinic, offering cures for all kinds of skin diseases and other ailments.

PUNE: The civic administration’s move to make biodegradable plastic bags compulsory for the disposal of wet garbage by hotels and restaurants has been picked up by the Union environment ministry for implementation nation-wide.