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Bengaluru, Feb 25: Prajwal Revanna, who had exposed the ‘bucket culture’ and ‘suitcase culture’ within Janata Dal (Secular), and coaxed the party supremo H D Deve Gowda to make him the state general secretary of the party, is now all set to contest the upcoming assembly polls in spite of Despite his uncle and JD(S) state president H D Kumaraswamy’s strong opposition to his candidature. After

Jubail: Arathi Krishna, Deputy Chairperson of the NRI Forum of Karnataka, who is currently on Saudi Arabia tour, on Saturday visited the industrial city of Jubail in the eastern province and interacted with the Indian expatriate community. Clad in black, Ms Krishna visited various business companies owned by Kannadigas, especially Mangalureans in Jubail including Expertise, Realtech and Al-Muzain

Athani (Karnataka), Feb 24: Dismissing Prime Minister Narendra Modi's statement that strict action would be taken in the PNB fraud case, Congress President Rahul Gandhi today asked him to first explain how the money was taken away from the bank under his government's RPT government's nose. "A scam of Rs 22,000 crore happens, Nirav Modi runs away with Rs 22,000 crore from Indian Banks and Modiji

Arathi Krishna, Deputy Chairperson of NRI Forum of Karnataka government, who has been associated with non-resident Indians and persons of Indian origin for several years, is now considering to tread the path of her father by entering the state politics. In a candid chat with coastaldigest.com during her visit to Jubail in Saudi Arabia on Saturday, Ms Krishna said that she’s ready to contest the

Moodbidri, Feb 24: In a gut-wrenching tragedy, a 48-year-old man lost his life while his two daughters suffered critical injuries after a mini truck knocked down their two-wheeler at Kelagina Pete on the Moodbidri-Guruvayankere national highway on Friday. The deceased has been identified as Uday Kumar, a local agriculturist. His daughters Nikitha (18) and Mayuri (20), who were riding pillion are

Bengaluru, Feb 24: Suspended Congress leader S Narayanaswamy, who had threatened to set a civic ward office at Horamavu on fire, was remanded in judicial custody for 14 days after he surrendered to the police on Friday morning. On February 16, he had poured petrol on the office premises after officials refused to register a disputed property in his name. He was expelled from the Congress party for

Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 24: An 18-year-old Keralite law student has filed a police complaint alleging cyber bullying by right-wing groups after she posted a poem on her Facebook page on taboos attached to menstruation. The abusers alleged that the poem on a menstruating goddess hurt their religious sentiments, Navami Ramachandran from Mallappally in Pathanamthitta district said. The woman claimed

Mangaluru, Feb 24: The 36th annual convocation of Mangalore University will be held on Monday, February 26 at 11.00 a.m. in the Mangala Auditorium on the Mangalore University Campus. Announcing this at a press meet here on Saturday Prof K Byrappa, vice chancellor of the MU, said that Prof Subra Suresh., President and Distinguished Professor, Nanyang Technological University [NTU], Singapore will

Athani, Feb 24: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah launched a verbal onslaught against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP state president B S Yeddyurappa during his address at the Janaashirvad Yatra rally in Athani on Saturday. "Narendra Modi is a great facilitator of corruption. The prime minister accuses the Congress government in Karnataka 10% government while his government allowed Nirav Modi to

Bengaluru, Feb 24: Elections to four Rajya Sabha seats from Karnataka will be held on March 23. The Election Commission of India announced on Friday the poll schedule for 58 seats, including four from the state to be vacated by industrialist Rajeev Chandrasekhar, who'd won as an independent, senior Congress leader K Rahman Khan, BJP members R Ramakrishna and Basavaraj Patil Sedam. The last date