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Award winning Bollywood actress and thinker Swara Bhaskar has come down heavily on acclaimed director Sanjay Leela Bhansali for the glorification of sati and jauhar in his film, Padmaavat. In an open letter published in The Wire on Saturday, the 29-year-old alumnus of Jawaharlal Nehru University, took particular offence to the film’s purported finale, in which Deepika Padukone’s Rani Padmavati

Bengaluru, Jan 27: Veteran Congress leader and Rajya Sabha member K Rahman Khan has brushed aside the reports that he had been approached by the JD(S) leaders seeking his defection to the regional party. Recent media reports had claimed that JD(S) had held talks with the former Union Minister for Minorities Affairs to strengthen the party in Muslim circles. Stating that there had been no

Anand B Singh, BJP MLA from Vijayanagara constituency, tendered his resignation for his post in the Legislative Assembly on Saturday. Mr. Singh met Speaker K.B. Koliwad at the Inspection Bungalow at Ranebennur in Haveri district, which is the native place of the latter, and submitted the resignation letter. Mr. Koliwad told presspersons that since Mr. Singh has tendered his resignation voluntarily

Bengaluru, Jan 28: A group of educated youth belonging to Karnataka for Employment (KFE) set up a pakoda stall in front of the BJP’s office in Bengaluru this weekend. They were dressed in blue and protesting against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s comment in a recent TV interview that those selling pakodas should also be deemed employed. When asked about his 2013 promise of creating one crore jobs

New Delhi Jan 28: In a case showing how craze for social media likes could land one in serious trouble, a management guru and writer of several books from Karnataka faced charges of forging letters of President and Prime Minister and posting those on his Facebook account. The Supreme Court has dismissed his plea for anticipatory bail in view of misdemeanour alleged on his part. "Why you do have to

Brushing aside the BJP’s charge of ‘minority appeasement’ by the Congress government in Karnataka, the State Home Ministry has said that cases filed against innocent people belonging to all communities during communal clashes would be withdrawn. The Ministry, meanwhile, has withdrew a recent circular issued by the office of the Director-General and Inspector-General of Police (DG&IGP) to heads of

The Karnataka BJP on Saturday described the government's attempts to withdraw cases filed against innocent minorities in communal incidents as "anti-democratic" and against "secular norms" and sought that the proposal be dropped immediately. Addressing a press conference in Bengaluru, BJP state general secretary Shobha Karandlaje termed the proposal as "unacceptable" and "dangerous". "Never before

Mangaluru, Jan 27: The officers and staff of the Customs Commissionerate, Mangaluru, celebrated the International Customs Day on Saturday, January 27 along with other stakeholders viz., importers, exporters, customs brokers, special public prosecutor, airlines and officers from Central Excise & Central tax, Income Tax and state government officials. This year’s theme is dedicated to the security

Belagavi, Jan 27: In a shocking incident, a 60-year-old destitute was raped and murdered by miscreants near the Indira Canteen building on the premises of the district hospital here. The incident came to light in the early hours of Saturday. Police recovered the victim's body that had deep injuries on the face. The miscreants had stuffed the woman's mouth with cotton and cloth. Police suspect that

Moodbidri, Jan 27: For the first time, Indian Catholic Youth Movement, Moodbidri Deanery, organized ‘youth cross - 2K18’ on this Republic Day by forming a giant human Cross with the theme: Youth in the Shadow of the Cross. The event also marked the inauguration of the year of rosary. "YOUTH CROSS - 2K18" event was organized on account of ICYM Central Council, Mangaluru Diocese mega event