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Mangaluru Jan 7: Nearly four days after he was brutally attacked by a gang of communal hatemongers without any provocation at Kottara Chowki in the city, 47-year-old Basheer passed away at a private hospital on Sunday. Basheer had sustained deep injuries in his head and chest in the attack. Medical sources said that he did not show any sign of recovery in four days and breathed his last at 8: 10 a

Bengaluru, Jan 7: BJP leader Shobha Karandlaje on Saturday said that the Congress party should reimburse to the government the expenses incurred by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to organise the rallies and programmes undertaken as part of Navakarnataka Nirmana Yatra. Shobha said the chief minister's yatra was more of a political event than a tour to highlight the government's initiatives. She said

Bengaluru, Jan 7: JD(S) state president H D Kumaraswamy has been forced to put off his ambitious grama vastavya (village stay) programme, following strict advice from doctors, who have asked him to slow down his pace of poll campaign. Kumaraswamy, who underwent a second heart surgery September 2017, is still highly prone to chest infections. In fact, soon after he undertook his first grama

Dharwad, Jan 7: Rationalist Dr M M Kalburgi's family has filed a petition before the Supreme Court, pleading that a committee headed by a retired judge of the court be formed to probe his murder. They want an investigation by a team of experienced officials led by an ADGP-rank officer. They said the ongoing investigation was getting delayed and was going nowhere. Dr Kalburgi family has filed the

New Delhi, Jan 6: Karnataka is one of the states which has witnessed an increase in the gross enrolment ratio (GER) in the higher education sector in the last three years and reached 26.5, higher than what has been recorded at the national level, according to a government report. India witnessed a 2.5% increase in the GER in higher education sector in 2016-17 over that recorded in 2014-15, the All

Bengaluru, Jan 6: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday said the "fight" in the upcoming Assembly polls in the state would be between two ideologies, communalism and secularism. "It's not between Siddaramaiah versus BJP, it is not between me versus Narendra Modi... it is not between Siddaramaiah and Yeddyurappa; it is between two ideologies- Congress versus BJP," he told reporters in

Mangaluru, Jan 6: The central crime branch of Mangaluru City Police has arrested four persons in connection with the murder attempt on Abdul Basheer (47) in the city. The arrested have been identified as Srijit (25), Sandesh Kotyan (22) of Kasargod, Kishan Pujari (21) and Dhanush Pujari (22), residents of Mangaluru. All are said to be supporters of Sangh Parivar. Mangaluru Police Commissioner T R

Mangaluru, Jan 6: The Shiradi Ghat stretch of National Highway 75 connecting Bengaluru and Mangaluru will be closed on January 20 to allow the improvement of the 13-km-long road and will be reopened after the completion of the work. “The work has to be completed before the end of May”, Public Works Department Minister H.C. Mahadevappa told presspersons here on Saturday. The Minister held a meeting

Udupi, Jan 6: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah will lay the foundation stone for the project at Brahmavar on January 8 to get water from the Varahi to Udupi city to meet the drinking water needs during summer. Announcing this at a press meet here Pramod Madhwaraj, Minister of State for Fisheries, Youth Empowerment and Sports, said that after a hydrological survey, it was found that the construction of

Even though Bharatiya Janata Party has been accusing Chief Minister Siddaramaiah led Congress government of indulging in "Muslim appeasement", statistics prove that the police in Karnataka have arrested more Muslims than Hindus in cases related to communal clashes in last four and a half years. As many as 1,254 people have been arrested for communal violence across the state from 2013 to 2017