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Mangaluru, Jun 6: Karnataka’s Minister for food, civil supplies and consumer affairs U T Khader has urged the BJP leaders to ask the Prime Minister Narendra Modi led union government of India to ban Popular Front of India instead of staging protests and demanding the Congress government of Karnataka to ban the outfit. Speaking to media persons here, the Congress leader said the onus of banning

Mangaluru, Jan 6: The miscreants arrested in connection with the coldblooded murder of Deepak Rao have reportedly received a huge amount of money recently. The police are not sure whether the money was paid as supari to kill a Hindu youth to create tension in the region ahead of impending Karnataka Assembly polls. According to sources, prime accused Pinki Nawaz received a huge amount of money

Mangaluru, Jan 5: The family members of Deepak Rao, who was hacked to death by a gang of miscreants two days ago, have refused to accept the compensation personally offered by local MLA B A Mohiuddin Bava. On Friday, Mr Bava went to the house of Deepak along with MLC Ivan D’Souza and offered to give a cheque for Rs. 5 lakh as personal compensation. However, the family members and the others who

Former Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy, who wants to strengthen Janata Dal (Secular) in coastal Karnataka, has accused the Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress of playing politics over “dead bodies.” Reacting to the protest rallies taken out by the BJP following the death of some youth in Dakshina Kannada district, Mr. Kumaraswamy said the BJP and the Congress were two faces of the same coin

After the big Indian notes, now it's time for 10 rupee note to get a new makeover. According to reports, the Reserve Bank of India is all set to issue new Rs 10 notes under the Mahatma Gandhi series with chocolate brown colour as the base. A picture of Konark Sun Temple will be a new addition to the Rs 10 note. As per various news reports, the central bank has already minted around 1 billion

Belagavi, Jan 5: Expressing his anguish against Union Minister Anant kumar Hegde for his remarks on changing the basic structure of Constitution, social activist Anna Hazare said that the likes of Hegde need to be treated in a mental hospital. In a press meet here on Friday, the activist from Ralegan Siddhi in Maharashatra, who led the campaign for the passage of the Lok Pal Bill, said, "The

Everybody knows that social media platforms are notorious for baseless rumours and fake news. But, in a bizarre development, the mainstream media in Karnataka has apparently tried to drag a minister’s name to a murder case by using an old and unrelated photo. Deepak Rao, a resident of Katipalla in Mangaluru taluk was hacked to death by a gang of notorious criminals on January 3 in his hometown

Udupi, Jan 5: The Udupi district police have booked five saffron activists including a prominent leader of Bajarang Dal for assault and attempt to murder charges. According to the police, Bajrang Dal leader Mahesh Shenoy, Ganesh Pujari and three others attacked Sheikh Mohsin, a resident of Karkala, with sharp weapons at Banglegudde on the outskirts of the town on Thursday night without any

Ballari, Jan 5: Taking serious exception to Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy's statement about the nexus between Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Popular Front of India (PFI), BJP state president B S Yeddyurappa on Friday challenged the minister to prove his charges in 24 hours. Speaking to reporters here, Yeddyurappa dismissing the allegations that three leaders of BJP Minorities Morcha were

Mangaluru, Jan 5: Thanks to the presence of mind exhibited by the police on Thursday when the saffron outfits had planned to take out a funeral procession of Deepak Rao in the city amidst prohibitory orders the communally sensitive Surathkal-Katipalla region is slowly limping back to the normalcy. The police aborted the planned procession by secretly shifting the dead body of Deepak in an