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Ramanagaram, Jan 24: A tense atmosphere prevailed in a local court in Karnataka’s Ramanagaram on Wednesday when a rape and murder convict turned violent after getting death sentence. Salim (35), the rape convict, who was given a death sentence by the district and sessions court judge, picked up some bricks in a fit of rage while walking out of the court premises and hurled them at media people and

Mangaluru, Jan 24: Ahmed Basheeer (48), who was hacked to death by a gang of communal goons earlier this month at Kottara Chowki area in the city, was in fact a random victim of conspiracy hatched by jailbirds, according to police. A resident of Akashbhavan, Basheer was running a fast food restaurant near Koattara Chowki for past one year. He breathed his last on January 7 at a hospital in the

Bengaluru, Jan 24: Denying the Bharatiya Janata Party’s charge that he is behind the proposed Karnataka bandh over the Mahadayi issue, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has said that he only support the cause of Kannadigas. Responding to BJP State president B.S. Yeddyurappa’s charge, Mr. Siddaramaiah said the bandh had been called by Kannada groups and farmers’ organisations. “Actually it will be a

Udupi, Jan 24: Prakash Javadekar, Union Minister for Human Resources Development, has predicted that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would win all seats of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts and come to power in Karnataka with a two-thirds majority. Addressing a meeting of the heads of various units of the BJP here on Tuesday, he said that the people were fed up with the four-and-a-half years

Bengaluru, Jan 24: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) of Karnataka has said that allegations and evidences lead to “a strong prima facie case” against BJP leader and the former Deputy Chief Minister R. Ashoka in a corruption case against him on a complaint about alleged illegalities in the regularisation of unauthorised occupation of government land between 1998 and 2007. In a statement, submitted

Two-and-half-year-old Pranavi, daughter of Jagadish and Nisha Latha couple at Mannagudde, Mangaluru, who supposed to be active and playing in and around her home, is now seeing the four walls of hospital on regular basis. She was diagnosed with blood cancer three months and has been under treatment since then in KMC, Mangaluru. When she was not able to walk at her early stages, her parents got her

Mangaluru, Jan 23: The Bharatiya Janata Party’s campaign against incumbent Congress government in Karnataka took an extremely ugly turn when a party leader declared in a public speech that the looming Assembly polls will be a direct battle between Allah and Rama in Bantwal constituency of Dakshina Kannada district. The Bantwal town police booked a case against Karkala MLA V Sunil Kumar under

Bengaluru, Jan 23: The Karnataka chief electoral officer (CEO) Sanjiv Kumar on Tuesday halted the transfers of Hassan deputy commissioner Rohini Sindhuri Dasari and Haveri and Ramanagara DCs, citing technicalities. Sindhuri's sudden transfer ahead of the Mahamastakabhisheka starting February 7, had received flak from the opposition, in particular the JD (S). Former PM and Hassan Lok Sabha member

In a setback to Karnataka BJP president B S Yeddyurappa, his right hand man Manjunath Gowda, who lost the last election from Thirthalli by a narrow margin of 600 votes, defected and joined JD(S) on Tuesday at the party's National President H D Deve Gowda's house in Padmanabhanagar, Bengaluru. Manjunath Gowda joined JD(S) in the presence of MLA Madhu Bangarappa, Shivamogga district JD(S) president

Mumbai, Jan 23: Maharashtra Revenue Minister Chandrakant Patil faced protests in his hometown Kolhapur on Tuesday for singing a Kannada song. Karnataka and Maharashtra are locked in a bitter border dispute. Maharashtra claims the areas of Belgaum and Karwar and the matter is before the Supreme Court. The minister, invited to a private function near Gokak in Karnataka, sang a Kannada song which