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Vijayapura, Mar 26: Panchapeeta seers (Panchacharyas) and those following the Veerashaiva tradition on Sunday vowed to take the political plunge to defeat the Congress in the forthcoming Assembly elections, for dividing Veerashaiva-Lingayat community. "We will use the Ganachara (a Veerashaiva tradition) to displace Siddaramaiah of his position as chief minister. We will discuss our plan with

Udupi, Mar 26: A 35-year-old man from coastal Karnataka, who was working in United Arab Emirates, has committed suicide by jumping from a building in Dubai. The deceased has been identified as Raghavendra Bhandari (35), who hailed from Kolambe village in Udupi district. It is believed that Bhandari, who had stayed in a hotel in Dubai, resorted to the extreme step due to “depression and personal

Shivamogga, Mar 25: A group of local Muslims turned into instant vigilantes after they saw a burqa-clad girl travelling with a Hindu girl and boy in Shivamogga, and subjected the trio to rigorous interrogation in public. The incident took place a couple of days ago at Sawaipalya Cross in the city when Fathima and Sheela were riding pillion on Kumaraswamy’s motorbike (all three names changed). All

Mangaluru, Mar 26: In a fresh case of immoral policing, three miscreants allegedly assaulted a group of five college students – three boys and two girls – who had gathered for a birthday celebration at Fathima beach, Tannirbavi in Mangaluru. The police have managed to arrest three accused on Sunday, a day after the incident. They are Sukesh, Varun and Deekshith. They objected to the students, who

Mysuru, Mar 25: In a blow to JD(S) headed by former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda, seven party rebel former MLAs today joined the ruling Congress in the presence of party president Rahul Gandhi. The rebel MLAs had resigned from Karnataka legislative assembly yesterday, a day after they cross-voted in favour of the Congress candidates in the March 23 Rajya Sabha biennial election in the state

K R Pete, Mar 25: Continuing his attack on the Janata Dal (Secular), Congress president Rahul Gandhi today asked former prime minister H D Deve Gowda's party to come clean on its support to the BJP. "JD(S), they have to make it clear whether they are the BJP's B team or not," Gandhi said at a public meeting here in the Vokkaliga belt of the old Mysuru region, considered a JD(S) stronghold. "They

Feroz N Sait, the incumbent Congress MLA from Belagavi North and senior leader of Muslim minority community in the region, is now facing severe opposition from a section of Muslims. A group of community leaders who gathered under the banner 'Belagavi Muslim Forum' on Sunday took strong objection to two-time MLA's functioning and accused him of nepotism. They demanded that the party high command

Shobha Karandlaje and P C Mohan, Members of Parliament from Udupi-Chikkamagaluru and Bengaluru Central constituencies respectively, have been appointed conveners of the BJP’s election committee in Karnataka. The party held the first meeting of the committee, with 33 sub-committees that includes manifesto and charge-sheet committees. B.S. Yeddyurappa, who addressed the committee reportedly pumped

Bengaluru, Mar 25: Kannada film actor and Congress party worker Arjun Dev has filed a complaint with the Byatarayanapura police against a rowdy, whom he claims has taken a contract to kill him. He has sought protection from the police. The police, who initially took up a non-cognisable report (NCR) case, have now registered an FIR following a court order. The 35-year-old actor claimed that Kashif

Asking Pramod Madhwaraj, Minister for Fisheries, Youth Empowerment and Sports, to practically file a Rs 10 crore defamation suit against him, instead of mere threatening, Abraham T J, president of the Karnataka Anti-Graft and Environmental Forum, has said that the latter has sufficient proof for the allegations made against the former. Abraham had earlier alleged that Madhwaraj had mortgaged three