Karnataka

Udupi, Oct 6: Activists of Bharatiya Janata Party led by Karkala MLA VSunil Kumar staged a protest against the proposed toll plaza on Karkala - Padubidri State Highway Number 1 at Belman in Karkala taluk on Friday. Belman is a junction, where roads coming from Shirva, Karkala- Nitte, Mundkur and Padubidri meet. The people from the surrounding villages visit Belman often for different reasons. They

Bengaluru, Oct 6: The Karnataka High Court has granted anticipatory bail to Sri Krishna, an accused in the assault that took place at a restaurant involving Shantinagar MLA N.A. Haris’ son Mohammed Nalapad Haris. Justice B.A. Patil allowed the plea and directed the petitioner, who has been arrayed as accused number three, to surrender to the investigating agency within 15 days. Sri Krishna was

Mangaluru, Oct 6: The additional chief judicial magistrate (ACJM) court has served warrant to RSS leader Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat in connection with the suicide of Shyam Prasad Shastry of Kedila village in Puttur. The court also has issued a summon to Ramachandrapura Mutt seer Raghaveshwara Bharati, and another warrant to Puttur Havyaka Valaya Bonantaya president Shiva Shankara Bhat, on Friday, and

Do organizations say what they intend to do? Not necessarily. This came out clearly from the three long lectures by RSS Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat. The event was supposed to be a dialogue, but the maximum of dialogue one could see was his answering few questions at the end of lectures. This normal practice of answering the questions was underlined strongly, as probably this must have been novel

Kalburagi, Oct 6: The Karnataka Police on Friday arrested 51-year-old Basavaraj, a physical education teacher in the Government Girls High School in Kalburagi, for sexually abusing and molesting female students. The teacher has been booked under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences(POSCO) Act and Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The Child Welfare

Bantwal, Oct 5: The police have arrested two more persons for allegedly razing the grotto of Mother Velankani in Kuntrakala in Kolnadu village of Bantwal taluk. The police have identified the arrested as Vasant Naik, 37, and Yogeesh Naik, 32. On September 27, a group of persons allegedly razed the grotto on a government land and then installed an idol of Koragajja Daiva. The police removed the

Kannur, Oct 5: Kannur International Airport, the second greenfield airport set up under the public-private partnership (PPP) model, near Mattannur in Kannur district would be inaugurated on December 9. The date for inauguration was fixed as the Director General of Civil Aviation has accorded commercial flight operation licence to the airport, a release from the office of Chief Minister Pinarayi

Bengaluru, Oct 5: As all their efforts to topple the chief minister H D Kumaraswamy-led Congress-JD(S) coalition of Karnataka proved futile, the BJP leaders in the state appear to be jittery ahead of the visit of their national supremo Amit Shah. Besides, the State BJP leadership’s two decisions - not fielding candidates for the recent elections to the Legislative Council and of abruptly staying

Mangaluru, Oct 5: JCI Mangaluru, in association with Lions Club, Mangaluru, Lioness Club, Mangaluru and Leo Club, Mangaluru, conferred ‘Outstanding Young Person Award’ at Lions Seva Mandir, Mallikatte recently. M R Poovamma (Sports), Bhavan PG (Painting), Praveen Udupa (Science and Technology), Shabarinathan (Business), Dayanand Kukkaje (Journalism), Tauseef Ahmed (Animal Care), Praveen Kalamadni

Bengaluru, Oct 5: Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) sleuths today raided on two Karnataka Government officers including Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board (KIADB), Chief Development Officer T R Swamy and N G Gowdaiah, Engineer Officer-5, Bengaluru Development Authority (BDA). According to a ACB Press release the raids were conducted at 8 places simultenously including offices, residences and