Karnataka

Udupi, Oct 25: The general body meeting of the management committee of a mosque at Katapady village in Udupi district on Wednesday took a violent turn as two groups engaged in clashes. The clash began during the elections to the new Jamaat committee of the Katapady Jumma Masjid. Six people from both groups got admitted to different hospitals after the incident. According to police, at the general

Hubballi, Oct 25: Udupi-Chikkamagaluru MP Shobha Karandlaje has predicted that BJP State president B S Yeddyurappa will become Chief Minister soon after the byelections two assembly seats and three Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka. Addressing presspersons at Honnur village of Jamkhandi taluk, where she was campaigning for the party's candidate, Srikant Kulkarni, on Wednesday, Karandlaje claimed that

Mangaluru, Oct 24: A meeting of the Muslim Central Committee here on Wednesday resolved to urge the Congress to field a Muslim candidate from Dakshina Kannada parliamentary constituency in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. It decided to constitute an action committee to submit a memorandum to the Congress. It decided to rope in Ministers, such as U.T Khader, B.Z. Zameer Ahmed Khan, to prevail upon the

Sullia, Oct 24: Two hardline groups of self-proclaimed saviours of Hindutva on Wednesday clashed Kashikatte near Subramanya over a trivial issue. The clash was the result of the raging controversy between Kukke Subrahmanya Kshetra and Samputa Narasimha Mutt. Young Hindutva chauvinist Chaithra Kundapura and Hindu Jagarana Vedike Sullia taluk secretary Guruprasad had engaged in mudslinging over the

Mangaluru, Oct 24: Mohammed Eshaque ‘Bamson’, a veteran of tourist vehicles industry in the coastal district passed away on Wednesday at his residence “Bamson House” at Falnir in Mangaluru. He was 66. Popularly known as ‘Bamson’, Eshaque was the proprietor of Mangalore Tourist Services (MTS), the business he inherited from his father Late B Mohammed Hajee who had established it in 1960s. After his

Mangaluru, Oct 24: More than a year after a BSNL employee was hacked to death in front of his two children in Beltangady taluk of Dakshina Kannada district, a local court has awarded life term imprisonment to the convict. Chandrasekar, a BBM student with a college at Ujire, had surrendered before the jurisdictional police after committing the crime on June 2, 2017. The victim, Thimmappa Poojary

Newsroom, Oct 24: Well-known Islamic scholar and Samastha Kerala Jamiyyathul Ulama member K P Hamza Musliyar passed away at his residence at Taliparamba in Kannur district of Kerala today. He was 79. Popularly known as ‘Kanzul Ulama’ in Kerala and neighbouring states, the religious stalwart was the general secretary of Sunni Education Board. Born in 1939 at Pattuvam in Kannur district as the son

Mangaluru, Oct 24: The Principal District and Sessions Judge of Dakshina Kannda has passed an order setting aside the complaint filed by the Department of Income Tax before the Special (Economic Offences) Court against the partners of Hassan-based jewelry business partnership firm namely M/s Ramachandra Shetty and Sons and its partners namely Ravish, Rajath and Rahul for the offence punishable

Newsroom, Oct 24: Weeks after #MeToo took India by storm, an NGO in Karnataka has come out with a new campaign called #MenToo with the intention of allowing men to speak out against women who harass them. The Bengaluru based Children's Rights Initiative for Shared Parenting (Crisp), which launched the new campaign last week clarifies that the #MenToo is not to be taken as a counter to #MeToo, but

Bengaluru, Oct 24: In a bizarre incident, two students who had gone to their college in a drunken condition jumped from the second floor after being scolded by the principal. The incident took place at St Claret College at Jalahalli area in Bengaluru on Monday. Both the students were immediately taken to MS Ramaiah hospital and they are said to be out of danger. Their parents did not file a