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Mangaluru, Mar 7: Sasikanth Senthil S, Deputy Commissioner of Dakshina Kannada, has issued a notice to Mohammed Nazir, Commissioner of Mangaluru City Corporation, over illegal unauthorised banners, buntings and cutouts across the city. In the show-cause, served on March 5, the DC asked why disciplinary action cannot be recommend against the Mr Nazir for failing to get unauthorised things removed

Mangaluru, Mar 7: Continuing his spree of controversial statements, BJP leader and Union Minister Anant Kumar Hegde has said that the coming century would be a ‘Hindu century’. The hardline Hindutva leader, who had called for elimination of Islam and change of India constitution in the past, was on Tuesday addressing party workers during the last day of the BJP’s Jana Suraksha Yatra at Kulai in

Bengaluru Mar 7: The BJP's resounding "Sunya" (zero) to "Shikar" (pinnacle) victory in the hill state of Tripura has boosted the morale of the Karnataka unit of the party which is now planning to scale-up its election campaign at multiple levels, both at the grassroots and in the social media. The state unit which has nine parallel ongoing simultaneous election campaigns - targetting almost every

Kasaragod, Mar 7: The police have arrested three persons, including a minor, on the charge of supplying ganja to a Class 10 student of a school here who was found dead four days after he had been reported missing from his house on March 1. The highly decomposed body of Muhammad Jasir (15) was found in a drainage along the railway tracks at Kalanad, near Uduma, on Monday. A team led by Bekal Circle

Mangaluru, Mar 6: Giving a call for Congress-free Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday said that the grand old party has become a problem for the entire country. Addressing the finale of four-day Mangaluru Chalo Jana Suraksha yatra organized by state unit of BJP at Nehru Maidan, Adityanath said new political feeling is pervading Karnataka, especially after the declaration of

Mangaluru, Mar 6: Two disgruntled local leaders of Congress and BJP were inducted into Janata Dal (Secular) on Tuesday by former chief minister H D Deve Gowda at a party convention at Town Hall in the city. K Ashraf, former Mayor of Mangaluru City Corporation and Ramesh S, former chairman of Mangaluru Urban Development Authority, began a new political career in the JD(S) by launching a tirade

Mangaluru, Mar 6: Launching a tirade against the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party, former Chief Minister and JD(S) State President H.D. Kumaraswamy on Tuesday said that both the national parties have been indulging in divisive politics, sidelining development of the State. Interacting with a select group of achievers in different fields here, Mr. Kumaraswamy, said the government its

Mangaluru, Mar 6: U T Khader, minister for food, civil supplies and consumer affairs on Tuesday formally inaugurated the State government sponsored Indira canteens in Mangaluru. The city’s first two such canteens started functioning at Urwa Stores and near the service bus stand. According to V. Prasanna, Project Director, District Urban Development Cell, each canteen serves food to a maximum of

Bengaluru, Mar 6: Top BJP leaders, including B S Yeddyurappa and Union Minister Ananth Kumar, have held a meeting with RSS leaders to chalk out the Sangh Parivaar's plan for the upcoming assembly polls in Karnataka. "On March 3, the Sangh Parivaar held its annual coordination meeting at our state headquarters. Core BJP leaders, including Yeddyurappa, Ananth Kumar, Sadananada Gowda and others

Bengaluru, Mar 6: Kannada superstar Upendra, who had recently took a political plunge by (re)launching a three year old Karnataka Pragnyavantha Janatha Party (KPJP), has quit the party following differences with the party founder Mahesh Gowda and other leaders. After tendering his resignation, the actor on Tuesday and announced that he will form a new political party, ‘Prajakeeya’. However