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Bengaluru, Nov 2: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah today dubbed BJP's statewide yatra against his government as a "yatra of remorse" and said the saffron party cannot succeed in the state as its people are "politically mature". He also hit out at BJP national president Amit Shah and state president Yeddyurappa by pointing out that both of them had been to jail. The chief minister also

Mengaluru, Nov 2: During the current financial year (up to October 2017), the Customs officers at Mangaluru International Airport seized contraband valued about Rs 2.36 crores in 35 cases of smuggling. The seizures include hitherto undetected cases of live plants and plant products attempted to be cleared without complying with plant quarantine regulations. The details of contraband-wise seizures

BJP national president Amit Shah launched an all-out attack on Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, accusing him of engaging in "vote-bank politics" by celebrating the birth anniversary of the erstwhile Mysore ruler Tipu Sultan. "Karnataka celebrated statehood on November 1. The government did not celebrate it with the fervour it deserved, because Siddaramaiah is more interested in celebrating Tipu

Bengaluru, Nov 2: Hardline Hindutva crusader and Union Minister Anant Kumar Hegde received a rousing welcome at the launch of the BJP Parivartan Yatra in the city on Thursday. This set off speculation in the inner circles of the party that he may be made the chief minister if the BJP gets a majority after next year's elections. This was prior to the arrival of the party's national president Amit

Chennai, Nov 2: Right wing Hindus (Hindutva forces) have started employing terrorism to propagate their communal agenda, according to veteran actor Kamal Haasan. In his column in a Tamil magazine that hit stands on Thursday, the versatile actor said the right-wingers could no longer say "show me a Hindu terrorist if you can." Terrorism has spread into their fold also, he said. “Earlier, the right

Bengaluru, Nov 2: Thousands of vehicles were stranded on Tumakuru Road due to the BJP’s ‘Nava Karnataka Parivarthana Yatra” whic began from BIEC at Madavara here on Thursday. Two ambulances were stuck for over half an hour in the jam, even as the city traffic police were struggling hard to manage the traffic on the busy Tumakuru-Nelamangala highway. Ironically, BJP’s national president Amit Shah

Bengaluru, Nov 2: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has not yet responded to Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah’s two letters seeking a national education policy, promoting the mother tongue as the medium of instruction in schools. "It is the constitutional obligation of the state to provide compulsory education to children in the age group of 6-14. We have been urging the Centre to formulate a

Mangaluru/Udupi, Nov 2: Doctors in private hospitals in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts will strike work for 24 hours from 6 a.m. on November 3 to register their protest against the Karnataka government’s move to amend The Karnataka Private Medical Establishments Act 2007. Raghavendra Bhat, president, Dakshina Kannada unit of the Indian Medical Association (IMA), said that pharmacies in the

Mangaluru, Nov 2: A police constable attached to Belthangady police station in Dakshina Kannada district, has been suspended after he exhibited his inclination towards Sangh Parwar through a Facebbok post. The man in-khaki who openly showed his saffron colour is Raj Shivappa. A resident of Bagalkot, Shivappa joined Karnataka State Police as a constable six years ago and was posted to the Dakshina

Mangaluru, Nov 2: A 44-year-old man has lost his life in a suspected wild board attack near Putthila village in Bantwal taluk of Dakshina Kannada district. The victim has been identified as Gangahadhara, a resident of Bodalmane village. He was a toddy tapper. On Tuesday, he had gone to get raw materials from a nearby forest reserve to make ropes to climb toddy producing trees. When he failed to