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Bengaluru, Jan 3: The Karnataka government is not apprehensive of releasing the caste census and it would be done at an appropriate time, Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister T B Jayachandra has said. "The caste census data is now the property of Backward Classes Commission.

Davanagere, Jan 3: State BJP President B S Yeddyurappa alleged that MLC Basavaraj Horatti 'is indulging in selfish politics, by using the issue of separate religion status for Lingayats, to his advantage'. Speaking at the Renuka Mandir, here in the city on Wednesday, Yeddyurappa said that Horatti was making confusing statements by stating that BJP MLAs support the demand for separate religion tag

Hyderabad, Jan 3: Introduction of Value Added Tax (VAT) by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) would adversely affect a majority of Indians working there and reduce their remittances, said a former diplomat. "I would say 70 to 80% of Indian community there will be adversely affected," said Talmiz Ahmad, the former Indian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Oman and the UAE. The size of the

Mangaluru, Jan 3: A youth was hacked to death by a gang of miscreants in broad daylight at Katipalla in Mangaluru taluk on Wednesday afternoon. The victim has been identified as Deepak Rao aka Deepu (32), a resident of Katipalla’s Kaikamba area. Police said Deepak had worked with private company agency which was owned by a Muslim. Since most of the customers were from minority community, Deepak

Gadag, Jan 3: Condemning the stand taken by Goa state Congress over the Mahadayi river water sharing dispute, BJP workers called for a bundh in Nargund, Gadag district, on Wednesday. The activists staged a protest by blocking the highway and burning tires. They forced shops to shut down. Due to the roadblock, free flow of traffic on Hubballi-Vijayapura national highway was totally disrupted. Tight

A 30-year-old man from Andhra Pradesh, who claims that Bollywood actress and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is his mother, has urged her to spend rest of her life in her birth place Mangaluru along with him. According to Sangeeth Kumar who adds Rai after his first name, Aishwarya Rai had given birth to him six years before she took the world by storm by winning the Miss World crown in

Udupi, Jan 3: P B Acharya, Governor of Nagaland, has hailed Vishwesha Tirtha Swami of Paryaya Pejawar Mutt and Dharmasthala Dharmadhakari D Veerendra Heggade as the icons of the country. He was speaking as the chief guest at a function to felicitate Heggade on his completing 50 years as Dharmadhakari of Sri Kshetra Dharmasthala at Rajangana here. The Rashtra Ratna Prashasti was conferred on Dr

Udupi, Jan 3: Most Rev. Gerald Isaac Lobo at Pilar-Shirva, the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Udupi on Tuesday inaugurated the constructed Infant Jesus Church at Pilar in Udupi district in the presence of a large number of priests and parishioners. According to a release issued by the Diocese here, the ceremony of the inauguration and blessing of the church commenced as Dr. Lobo along

Mangaluru, Jan 3: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has said the party did not concur with the controversial Talaq Bill brought by the Central Government as it had no clarity. CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury who was in Moodbidri on Tuesday for a party event, said, "As far as the CPM is concerned, we have always been opposed to the arbitrary and the instantaneous character of triple

Mangaluru, Jan 3: Communist Party of India (Marxist) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury on Tuesday opined that the farmers and labourers will be the twin forces that will stop the Ashwamedha horse of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Shah. Addressing a public meeting as part of the 22nd CPI(M) State conference here at Swaraj Maidan in Moodbidri on the outskirts