Karnataka

Bengaluru, Sept 6: Demanding that the State government should immediately convene a special session of the legislature and table the Anwar Manippady report on encroachment of Wakf properties, the BJP legislators today staged a protest in front of the Mahatma Gandhi statue at Vidhana Soudha, here. The saffron party also demanded a CBI probe into the alleged multi-billion Wakf property scam. “The

Bengaluru, Sept 6: Bengaluru International Airport on Thursday said it plans to roll out facial recognition facility for the passengers of some select airlines from early next year as it seeks to make the boarding process paperless. The private airport operator has inked a pact with the Lisbon-based digital and biometric solutions services provider Vision-Box to implement the technology, Bangalore

New Delhi, Sept 6: Homosexuality is not a crime, the RSS said on Thursday, while maintaining that it does not support same-sex marriage as it was "not natural". The comments came on a day the Supreme Court unanimously decriminalised part of Section 377, which criminalises consensual unnatural sex, saying it violated the rights to equality. "Like the Supreme Court's verdict, we also do not consider

United Nations, Sept 6: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres cited the devastating floods in Kerala and the wildfires in California as he expressed concern that climate change is "running faster than we are” and called for urgency and action to prevent ever greater climate-related crises. The UN chief said last year, climate-related disasters were responsible for thousands of deaths and USD 320

In the country where superstitions are deep rooted, in times when champions of anti-superstition bill are being killed, to make a film like Stree is undoubtedly an act of bravery. In Bombay cinema the genre of horror films has always played to the stereotype using the superstitions to its benefit and has strengthened those superstitions. Stree breaks away from this tradition and subverts not just

Vijayapura, Sept 6: Veteran BJP leader and Vijayapura MLA Basanagouda Patil Yatnal has said that former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah lost the Assembly election from Chamundeshwari because he allegedly entered a temple after eating meat. “Similarly, AICC president Rahul Gandhi will also lose elections because he is going to Mansarovar pilgrimage after consuming chicken soup. These leaders are

Bengaluru, Sept 6: The Baratiya Janata Party under the leadership of its Karnataka unit chief B S Yeddyurappa has reportedly intensified its effort to pull down the Janata Dal (S)-Congress coalition government by wooing some of the disgruntled MLAs from the ruling combine. According to sources, BJP is constantly in already in touch with some of the MLAs from the ruling parties. “We have been

Bengaluru, Sept 6: When a large number of intellectuals and activists from across the country gathered in Bengaluru on Wednesday for the ‘Freedom of Expression’ convention to mark the first anniversary of the martyrdom of journactivist Gauri Lankesh, her opponents staged a counter protest. Hindu Janajagruti Samiti (HJS), an affiliate of Sanatan Sanstha, took out a protest march against any

Bengaluru, Sept 6: A management consulted has been arrested by the Cyber Crime cell of Bengaluru police for allegedly siphoning off funds and stealing data belonging to an education group that runs a chain of schools in Dubai and Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The accused, Abhilash Rao Magavanna, 35, is a resident of Bharath Nagar in BEL Layout in Bengaluru. He was arrested based on a

Mysuru, Sept 6: In a gruesome incident, a 3-year-old boy was ruthlessly branded with red-hot knife after he relieved himself in the day-care centre on Tuesday in an Anganwadi Centre in Mysuru. Based on a complaint lodged by the child’s parents, the police have booked a case against an anganwadi worker for the crime. The worker has been suspended pending inquiry. Police said Neelamma, who works