Karnataka

Mangaluru, Sept 16: Evan as the Tulu film industry all set to score a century, the Karnataka Chalanachitra Academy (KCA) has decided to hold a three-day regional film festival in Mangaluru, the capital of Tulu Nadu, to celebrate the rare achievement of the dialect. Tulu film industry has a history of over four-and-a-half-decades. The first Tulu movie ‘Enna Tangadi’ was released in 1971 at the

Bangaluru, Sept 16: Bangaluru, Sept 16: The police have managed to crack the sensational case of hand-chopping of a man in Bannerghatta on September 11, and arrested four persons including the mastermind- a woman traffic constable, who was also present with the victim when the incident took place. The police team probing the case had on April 14 managed to arrest two suspects Viji alias Mental (22

Madikeri, Sept 16: Karnataka government has decided to pay school and college examination fees of students in Kodagu district who were unable to pay it in-time after the flood and landslide havoc reported for the last two months during monsoon. This was announced by Ms Manjula commissioner of collegiate education and she said as soon as the list of the such students prepared and received by the

Mysuru, Sept 16: The Centre’s decision to revise the fair and remunerative price (FRP) for sugarcane from Rs. 2,550 per tonne to Rs. 2,750 per tonne for 2018-19 has left the sugarcane cultivators in Karnataka unimpressed. Though this is seemingly a significant increase in the procurement price that will benefit the farmers, the Sugarcane Cultivators’ Association has pointed out that there is a

Mumbai, Sept 16: The same group of right-wing workers is behind the killings of rationalists Narendra Dabholkar, M M Kalburgi and journalist Gauri Lankesh, a senior police official said quoting investigation reports. However, the probe agencies have not been able to establish the group's link with the killing of rationalist and communist leader Govind Pansare, he said. "During the investigation

Bengaluru, Sept 16: Kannada superstar Upendra, who had to quit his own party, Karnataka Pragnyavanta Janata Party (KPJP) within months after its formation ahead of last assembly polls, is now all set to begin second innings in politics by launching Uttama Prajakeeya Party (I) — UPPI in short. The controversial actor had entered politics on his 49th birthday through KPJP, is likely to announce the

Honnavar, Sept 16: At least five persons were killed and more than 15 injured in a collision between a passenger tempo and a gas tanker near Honnavar in Uttara Kannada district on Saturday. The deceased have been identified as Samantha Madiwala (34), Sinchana Madiwala (6), Kamalakara Bhandari (50), Mohan Mesta (50) and Nagaraja Naika (26). All of them were travelling by the tempo, which was

Bengaluru, Sept 16: Congress veteran M Veerappa Moily has warned the Bharatiya Janata Party that it would not win more than two or three Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka in the 2019 elections if it destabilises the coalition government headed by Chief Minister H D Kumraswamy. Speaking to reporters after paying tributes to Bhrata Ratna Sir M. Visvesvaraya on his birth anniversary, at Muddenahalli in

Mangaluru, Sept 15: Peter Paul Saldhana was Saturday ordained as the 14th bishop of Mangaluru Diocese at the episcopal ordination and consecration celebration at Rosario Cathedral here. According to tradition, outgoing bishop Aloysius Paul DSouza as the main consecrator, along with Bengaluru archbishop Peter Machado and Udupi diocese bishop Jerald Isaac Lobo as co-consecrators, ordained the new

Mangaluru, Sept 15: The Coast Guard district (Karnataka) headquarters on Saturday under the aegis of South Asian Cooperative Environment Programme (SACEP) coordinated the coastal cleanup drive as a part of the International Coastal Cleanup (ICC) – 2018. Volunteers from different sections of society and organisations took part in the cleaning drive. Beaches at Panambur, Tannirbhavi, Surathkal