In The News

Mangaluru, Jan 10: Based on the information provided by the accused in connection with the murder of Ahmed Basheer, the Mangaluru city police have launched a search operation for the murder weapons in Netravati River on the outskirts of the city. The expert divers hired by the police are searching the depths of the Netravati near the bridge on NH 66. The arrested accused have revealed that after

Holalkere, Jan 10: BJP President Amit Shah on Wednesday hit out at Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah claiming that his government in the state is anti- Hindu. "This govt of Karnataka is doing vote bank politics, it is an anti-Hindu govt. They have withdrawn all cases against SDPI, which is an anti-India organisation," Amit Shah said while addressing the 'Parivartana Yatra' in Chitradurga in

Expressing frustration over the communal violence unleashed by the Sangh Parivar, Chief Minister has compared the members of saffron outfits to terrorists. Addressing a Sadhaneya Samevesha rally at Chamarajanagar district on Wednesday, he said: "Members of RSS and Bajrang Dal are the terrorists." Reacting to scribes’ questions on why the outfit Popular Front of India, had not yet been banned, the

Udupi, Jan 10: In what appears to be a case of doctor’s negligence, a teenage girl died of multiple organs’ failure on Wednesday allegedly due to overdose of drug after she consumed allopathic tablets prescribed by an Ayurveda practitioner at Parkala Agrahara in Udupi. The victim has been identified as Namrita (17), a resident of Parkala Agrahara and a student of first year PU at Vidydoya PU

The Income Tax Department today conducted country-wide searches at over 100 stores and other premises belonging to two major south-India based jewellery chains on charges of alleged tax evasion, official sources said. The action is being carried out against Kerala-based jewellery group Joyalukkas and another firm connected with it. I-T sleuths are raiding 130 premises of the business houses in the

Mumbai, Jan 10: Rishi Sunak, son-in-law of Infosys co-founder NR Narayana Murthy, has been inducted in the British Prime Minister Theresa May’s government. Indian-origin lawmaker Sunak was inducted into Theresa May’s government in the reshuffle of her top team of ministers and secretaries on Monday. The 36-year-old has been appointed as an under secretary of state in Britain's Ministry of Housing

Bengaluru, Jan 10: Tanveer Sait, primary and secondary education minister, has lodged a complaint with the DG-IGP stating he received a threat message and call on his mobile phone from a person claiming to be underworld terrorist Ravi Poojary. The call was over Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) and came through to the minister’s phone while he was on a tour to Sira and was returning back to the

New Delhi, Jan 10: After NIA suffered an embarrassment with quashing of its Red Corner Notice request by the Interpol, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday was pulled up by a judicial tribunal over its investigation against peace activist and Islamic preacher Dr Zakir Naik. Justice Manmohan Singh, who heads the Appellate Tribunal for PMLA (Prevention of Money Laundering Act) at New Delhi

Lucknow, Jan 10: The Shia Central Waqf Board of Uttar Pradesh has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to shut down madrassas in the country, alleging that education imparted in these Islamic schools encouraged students to join terrorist ranks In a letter to the prime minister, the Shia body demanded that madrassas be replaced by schools affiliated to the CBSE or the ICSE which will offer students

Mangaluru, Jan 10: The Dakshina Kannada police arrested two of the four activists of saffron groups who entered the house of a Hindu woman on Tuesday and threatened her daughter against speaking to Muslims. According to Superintendent of Police Sudheer Kumar Reddy C.H., the four not only warned the girl against speaking to Muslims but also pushed her to the side. They quarrelled with the family