Karnataka

Mangaluru, Jul 28: Officials recently seized four pairs of deer antlers from United Sates-bound passengers at Mangaluru International Airport. Forest department officials have booked a person under the Indian Forest Act, 1927 in connection with the case. An airline staff had alerted forest department officials about two passengers – a woman and her father – heading to US via Bengaluru while

Bengaluru, Jul 28: Scores of people gathered outside Bengaluru's Town Hall on Friday to stage protest opposing the weird practices followed during eclipses. The crowds were promoting the scientific reason behind the occurrence of an eclipse and asked people to turn down the superstitious belief followed during the phase of the eclipse. While protesting they also ate food, which is prohibited as

Bengaluru, Jul 28: The High Court of Karnataka has reserved its judgement on a petition by Popular Front of India leader Asim Sheriff, the fifth accused in the RSS worker Rudresh murder case. Rudresh, an RSS worker, was murdered in broad daylight by motorbike-borne men in Kamaraja Road in Shivajinagar on October 16, 2016. The NIA later took over the probe. Sheriff was one of the five arrested in

Udupi, Jul 28: The police have stepped up investigation into the suspicious death of Lakshmivara Teertha Swami of Shiroor Mutt. The investigating team yesterday reportedly collected a few more items from the mutt and also quizzed some people in connection with the death. The post-mortem report is expected to available in about a week’s time. But this in itself would not be sufficient in the case

Bengaluru, Jul 28: Karnataka boasts of a law against superstitious practices — the Karnataka Anti-Superstition Act — but lawmakers in this south Indian state seem to have great faith in the role of celestial bodies in their lives. The longest lunar eclipse of the century commenced only at 11.44 p.m. on Friday. But the state’s minister had disappeared from their offices and corridors of the State

Mangaluru, Jul 27: Urban Development and Housing Minister U T Khader has assured that the three-storey Deputy Commissioner’s office complex being built in Padil will be ready by December 2019. After reviewing the construction work at the site here today Mr. Khader said he would shortly convene a meeting of all stakeholders and sort out issues, if any, in the execution of the work. The building is

Kasaragod, Jul 27: People from all walks of life, including religious and political leaders, paid tributes to Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) leader Cherkalam Abdulla who died at his residence at Cherkala here on Friday morning. In his message, Minister-in-Charge of the district E. Chandrasekharan termed “invaluable” the contributions of Mr. Abdulla to his home district during his stint as

Bengaluru, Jul 27: Karnataka Higher Education minister G T Deve Gowda said the government aims to do away with political nominations to state-run university senates and syndicates. The education department has decided to fill 5,000 vacant posts of teaching staff in degree colleges of the state in six months, he told reporters here. "Our intention is that syndicate and senate members should be

Bengaluru, Jul 27: In an embarrassment to the BJP in Karnataka, its party Molkalmoru MLA B Sriramulu today batted for separate statehood for North Karnataka, alleging injustice to the region. BJP state president B S Yeddyurappa had earlier flayed those demanding separate statehood, saying such a demand will not lead to any solution. Party MP Shobha Karandlaje too dismissed the demand for separate

Mangaluru, Jul 27: Two days after he went missing in Bengaluru, a high school boy was found dead under mysterious circumstances in a lake near Guruvayanakere in Belthangady taluk on the outskirts of Mangaluru in Dakshina Kannada district yesterday. The deceased is Yashwant Sai (16), a Class 10 student of ITI Vidya Mandir in Dooravaninagar, Bengaluru. He was staying with his grandparents at