Belgaum: The Belgaum Police on Sunday arrested the fiance of the girl whose mutilated body was found on a road in the district on Saturday. According to the police, the man allegedly raped his 20-year-old fiancee and killed her.
The police, for the time being, however, have ruled out that the girl was gangraped. The police said that the girl had been postponing their marriage and refusing his advances and this was the reason why her fiance allegedly raped and killed her.
The woman's body was found along with her bag, footwear and college identity card on the road.
There were injuries on her face, which suggested she had been hit with sharp objects. The woman's caste name was also etched on her body....
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11:16 PM, Apr 28, 2013
Belgaum: Mutilated body of a 20-year-old college student was found in Belgaum district of Karnataka on Sunday. The woman was allegedly gangraped and murdered. Her body was found on a road in Belgaum district on Saturday. The woman's bag, footwear and college identity card were also recovered from the spot. The unidentified assailants allegedly inflicted injuries on her face with sharp objects. The woman's caste name was also etched on...
03:39 PM, Apr 28, 2013
There are just 8 days to go for the Assembly elections as CNN-IBN's Karnataka Yatra reaches battlefield. ...
10:45 PM, Apr 27, 2013
Bangalore: The May five assembly elections in Karnataka would have 35,58,862 first time voters (18-22 age category), including 5,34,548 in the city, eligible to cast their ballot in the state, where there would be 52,034 polling stations, an official said. Karnataka Chief Electoral Officer Anil Kumar Jha said the total electorate is 4,36,36,966, including 70,37,885 in Bangalore - 2,22,84050 male and 2,13,52,916 female. "Net addition of voters since January 28...
10:11 PM, Apr 25, 2013
Belgaum in North Karnataka is a town which is at the heart of a border dispute between Karnataka and Maharshtra and CNN-IBN's Veeraraghav found that the linguistic divide runs deep. ...
10:13 AM, Apr 22, 2013
Mumbai: Terming the registration of FIR against Home Minister RR Patil by Karnataka police as "wrong action", Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Monday said he would speak to his counterpart from the neighbouring state requesting him to drop the charges. Chavan was intervening in an impromptu debate in the Legislative Assembly here initiated by Labour Minister Hassan Mushrif condemning the Karnataka government on booking Patil for his alleged "provocative"...
05:25 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Bangalore: An FIR has been filed against Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil by Karnataka police for promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race or language for his alleged provocative speech on Belgaum issue, a bone of contention between the two states. Patil has also been booked under Representation of People Act for violation of the election code for the May 5 assembly poll in the state, police...
04:40 PM, Apr 11, 2013
A naval helicopter, with four personnel on board, crashed off the Vishakhapatnam harbour on Tuesday. Two crew members were immediately rescued while two others were missing and a search was underway for them, Navy officials said. The Chetak helicopter crashed at around 1500 hours during a routine training sortie, they said. ...
07:45 PM, Mar 05, 2013
A village school teacher was arrested for allegedly molesting two minor girl students at Nangenatti village, about 20 km from Belgaum, police said. ...
07:36 PM, Jan 12, 2013
The winter session of the Karnataka legislature begins on Wednesday, amid doubts over its survival, as many ruling BJP legislators are likely to attend the Dec 9 launch of the new outfit headed by former Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa. ...
10:56 AM, Dec 03, 2012
Belgaum: The father of the Indian dentist who died in Ireland after doctors allegedly refused to terminate her pregnancy today said he would write to the President and Prime Minister, demanding that India press for an independent inquiry into his daughter's death. Savita Halpannavar's father demanded that an Indian be appointed on the inquiry committee. "I am writing a letter to the President, Prime Minister and External Affairs Minister, asking...
10:47 AM, Nov 19, 2012
Belgaum: By getting President Pranab Mukherjee to unveil Karnatakas second state secretariat Suvarna Soudha in this northern city on Thursday, the government has sought to consolidate its stranglehold on the border area to which Maharashtra has long staked claim. Mukherjee is on his first visit to Karnataka after becoming the president in July. "The historic event fulfils a long-pending demand of the people in the region, as the new secretariat...
01:28 PM, Oct 11, 2012
Belgaum: The city, which witnessed a communal clashes for the last three days, looked as if it had returned to normal on Wednesday. Barring the torching of a car at Shetti Galli, no untoward incidents were reported from any part of the city on Wednesday. While a few educational institutions and commercial establishments remained closed on Tuesday, the flow of people and vehicular movement in the city resumed to full...
01:17 PM, Aug 30, 2012
Belgaum: Communal clashes which broke out here on Sunday night have claimed two lives, with police confirming the death of a second person on Monday. While Asif Mahammod Managaonkar (32) was reportedly killed on Sunday night, another person Chetan Patil (26) was said to have been stabbed to death soon after. Another person Sameer Marihal (22), who was seriously injured, has been admitted to the ICU of KLE Hospital and...
10:56 AM, Aug 28, 2012
Bangalore: Amidst high drama in the Legislative Assembly, Kiran Thakur, editor of Marathi daily Tarun Bharat, who had been summoned by the House for a reprimand, said he was sorry for publishing fictitious and malicious reports against MLAs from Belgaum district Abhay Patil and Shyam Ghatge. It is said that the government chose to underplay the incident, following a phone call made by BJP national president Nitin Gadkari to Chief...
01:16 PM, Jul 31, 2012
New Delhi: Defence ties between India and China are set to gain momentum with New Delhi mulling joint exercises with Beijing next year after the just concluded naval drills in Shanghai held after a gap of six years. India is planning to propose joint military exercises with China which will also include army-to-army exercises, sources said. The armies of the two countries last held counter insurgency and counter terrorism wargames...
09:03 PM, Jun 20, 2012
Belgaum: A doctor and medical college professor from Belgaum in Karnataka has created history by performing a dissection on his own father's body for medical students of his college. The doctor, Mahesh Ramannawar, performed the dissection as his father had wished him to do so in his will. "I am a professor to anatomy and I have only fulfilled my father's wishes by doing this, I am happy that the...
08:50 AM, Nov 15, 2010
TDP chief, party colleagues spend second day under arrest in Dharmabad town of Nanded district. ...
12:08 PM, Jul 17, 2010
Maharashtra and Karnataka fight over Belgaum. But it should become a bridge between the two states. ...
11:34 PM, Jul 14, 2010
The decision of the SC to reject the affidavits filed by Karnataka as well as the Centre sparked the violence. ...
08:14 AM, Jul 13, 2010
