Karnataka

Bengaluru, Sept 5: Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy on Tuesday said his government accorded top most priority for quality of education and suggested officials to study steps taken by the AAP government in Delhi in the field and submit a report. He asked the officials to recommend ways to improve the quality of education in the state, the Chief Minister's Office said in a tweet. Responding

Amidst the growing the Muslim population, the rise of middle class in Muslim-majority countries and improved access to travel information and the increasing availability of Muslim-friendly travel services, Halal tourism is now gaining tremendous traction across the world. A considerable number of Muslim travellers are focusing more on the “halalness” of the trip. The Muslim travel market was worth

Newsroom, Sept 5: Journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh, who was gunned down by alleged saffron extremists exactly a year ago in Bengaluru, will be posthumously awarded at the Bayeux-Calvados Award for war correspondents on October 8 in France. The Reporters Sans frontiers (RSF) has decided to honour Gauri Lankesh posthumously at the Bayeux-Calvados Awards for war correspondents. The RSF has informed

Mangaluru, Sept 5: At a time when communal hatred is plaguing the coastal Karnataka, an act of kindness goes a long way. When the relatives and community members of a 65-year-old Hindu woman did not come forth to perform her last rites, following her death, the local activists of Popular Front of India and Social Democratic Party of India stepped up to give her a proper funeral. The woman in

Bengaluru, Sept 5: The steep hike in diesel prices in recent days has taken a toll on the state road transport undertakings in Karnataka. Meanwhile, the state government has proposed to hike bus fares of the state road transport corporations by 18%. According to Minister for Transport D.C. Thammanna, the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation, the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation

Kasaragod, Sept 5: A court here has acquitted six people accused in the murder of Communist Party of India (Marxist) activist M.B. Balakrishnan at Mangad, near Uduma, here in September 2013. Pronouncing the verdict on Tuesday, the Principal District Sessions Court acquitted Congress workers A.K. Ranjith, 34; A. Suresh, 29; U. Sreejayan, 43; Shyam Mohan, 23; Majeed; and Shibu, stating that the

Bengaluru, Sept 5: A year after senior journalist Gauri Lankesh was shot dead at her residence in Rajarajeshwarinagar, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) investigating the case is just a few steps away from cracking the case. The SIT has so far arrested 12 accused in the case and also established various links to the previous killings of rationalists M M Kalburgi on August 30, 2015, in Dharwad

Bengaluru, Sept 4: Minister for Urban Development and Housing U T Khader was on Tuesday hospitalized after his health condition worsened due to lack of rest and sleep deprivation. Mr Khader, who is also the district in charge minister of Dakshina Kannada, has been suffering from severe back ache and left leg pain for past few days. Though he was receiving treatment, the problem worsened today

Mangaluru, Sept 4: Tension prevailed for a while during the dahi handi celebrations at Kadri in the city after an inebriated man allegedly touched a woman inappropriately. An officer from Mangaluru East police station said the inebriated man touched the woman inappropriately once. She ignored it thinking it an inadvertent act. The man took advantage of this and allegedly touched her again. This

Manglauru, Sept 4: A youth from Puttur taluk in Dakshina Kannada district died at a private hospital in the city due to suspected rabies. The victim Ashith, son of Anand Poojary, a resident of Ichlampady Kayarthadka village in Puttur, had had just completed his engineering from a private college in Sullia. As he developed severe pain in the waist, he was admitted to a private hospital in Puttur