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New Delhi, Sept 6: The Supreme Court on Tuesday found “several missing links” in the Karnataka's CID probe into the death of deputy superintendent of police M K Ganapathy. The sensational case has forced then Home Minister K J George as the deceased officer named him and two other officers, for harassing him before his death. “We want to know the substance of the investigation. Why he was given

Bengaluru, Sept 6: With elections around the corner, the state government has proposed to start its own television channel, called Gram Swaraj TV, to promote its schemes and programmes. Anchored by the Rural Development and Panchayat Raj (RDPR) department, the channel will be started through a company called TR Media Entertainment Private Limited with an investment of Rs 10 crore and a monthly

Bengaluru, Sept 6: A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed by residents of Dakshina Kannada district seeking direction to the state government to restrain BJP Yuva Morcha from holding Mangaluru Chalo bike rally and public gathering anywhere in Mangaluru city or within Dakishina Kannada district. The PIL was moved before a division bench comprising Chief Justice S K Mukherjee and Justice

Bengaluru, Sept 5: Veteran journalist and peace activist Gauri Lankesh (55) who led a crusade against saffron extremists and communalism in Karnataka for decades was on Tuesday shot dead by unidentified gunmen near her residence in Bengaluru. The incident took place within a few days after the second anniversary of the assassination of M M Kalburgi, a rationalist and former vice-chancellor of

Mangaluru/Bengaluru, Sept 5: Hundreds of hardline Hindutva leaders including members were detained on Tuesday to abort illegal “Mangaluru Chalo” minutes after it was flagged off in Bengaluru. The rally was supposed to reach Mangaluru on September 7 through the authorities had denied permission. High drama ensued as over 200 bike riders who successfully reached Freedom Park in Bengaluru, despite

Since the advent of multiplexes there has been a paradigm shift of cinemagoers, thereby decreasing the crowd at single screen talkies. “We do not see college students rushing into theatres the way they did before. We do not have luxurious facilities that multiplexes provide and hence cannot attract the youth these days. Having a single screen is another limitation,” says Ravi Shankar Rai the

New Delhi, Sept 5: The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into Karnataka police officer Ganapathy's death. Ahead of the apex court order, Ganapathy's family had sought the apex court's intervention in the case. Notably, the Karnataka CID had given a clean chit to senior Congress leader and Karnataka government minister KJ George. The controversy over

Kolkata, Sept 5: The RSS today alleged that a state-owned auditorium here where its chief Mohan Bhagwat was scheduled to attend a programme on October 3 has cancelled the booking for the event. The move to cancel the booking was condemned by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh(RSS) but the auditorium authorities said renovation and repair work would be undertaken around that time and therefore the

Mysuru, Sept 5: Kannada writer and Hindutva advocate S L Bhyrappa has demanded direct flight from Mysuru to Mangaluru and Hubballi instead of flight service between Mysuru and Bengaluru. Speaking at the launch of 'You Cannot Miss This Flight', essays on Emerging India, organised by Mysuru Literary Forum Charitable Trust Book Clubs and Harper Collins Publishers at a private hotel, here he said that

Kochi/Mumbai, Sept 5: An Air India Express aircraft carrying 102 passengers and six crew members on-board veered off the taxiway at Kochi airport after it arrived from Abu Dhabi early this morning. However, all passengers were evacuated safely. "All passengers were evacuated through ladder. All safe. No casualties," a Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL) spokesman said. The nose-wheel of