Karnataka

Hubballi, Jul 25: A hardline Hindutva outfit has demanded the release of suspected saffron extremists arrested in connection with the assassination of journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh. Dozens of activists Kranti Sena staged a protest in front of the tahsildar's office here on Tuesday and demanded that they are released immediately. The Sena leader Vitthal Pawar said that the special investigation

Bengaluru, Jul 25: Entering into a pre-poll alliance with the Congress for the Lok Sabha polls will depend on how the JD(S) is treated, Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy said Tuesday. “The agenda is there,” he told reporters when asked about the JD(S) forging a pre-poll alliance with the Congress. “But let’s see how the Congress will treat the JD(S),” he said. This remark comes a day after a section

Vijayapura, Jul 24: The District and Sessions Court here has acquitted the six Hindutva chauvinists accused in the Pakistan flag-hoisting case of January 1, 2012 in Sindgi town citing loopholes in the charge-sheet filed by the police. The acquitted miscreants are Parashuram Waghmore, Mallanagouda Patil, Rohit Navi, Sunil Agasar, Arun Waghmore and Anil Solkar. First Additional District Judge K B

New Delhi, Jul 24: A day after the Congress Working Committee (CWC) pitched for party chief Rahul Gandhi as the opposition’s prime ministerial candidate for the Lok Sabha elections, barring JD(S), not many parties were forthcoming in backing the proposal. Former prime minister H D Deve Gowda said in Delhi that he had no qualms about Rahul leading the joint opposition front as its PM candidate as

New Delhi, Jul 24: Sixty crore people in India face high to extreme water crisis and its demand is projected to be twice the availability supply by 2030, the Lok Sabha was informed on Monday. Answering a question in the Lok Sabha on a study conducted by the NITI Aayog on the water crisis in the country, Minister of State for Drinking Water and Sanitation Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi said there was

Panaji, Jul 24: The Goa government has decided to move the Mahadayi Water Dispute Tribunal against Karnataka's alleged act of diverting the Mahadayi river water to its Malaprabha basin, a minister said on Tuesday. A team of officials from Goa on Monday visited Karnataka's Kanakumbi village, located in the Malaprabha basin adjoining the state's border, and confirmed that the Mahadayi river water

Mangaluru/Udupi, Jul 24: In a fresh development in the probe into the suspicious death of Sri Lakshmivara Theertha Swami of Shiroor Mutt, the police have taken his female acquaintance, Ramya Shetty, into custody, when she was trying to flee by wearing a burqa. Ramya was one of the persons questioned by the Udupi police following mysterious the death of the seer last week. Last night a car was

Udupi, Jul 24: The Pejawar Mutt chief pontiff Vishwesha Teertha Swami, who landed in controversy following the release of an audio tape casting aspersions on his ‘character’, has said that he would quit the Mutt if charges against him are proven. “I am ready to face any investigation or test. If any aspersion on my character is proved, I will immediately abdicate my position as seer of Pejawar

Bengaluru, Jul 24: The Public Works Department is in the process of drawing a list of areas in Malnad and coastal regions where small bridges would be constructed to provide connectivity to villages during monsoon. Currently, residents use wooden rafts called ‘sanka’ during monsoon to establish connectivity to mainland when the level in the river/rivulets rises. Speaking to presspersons in

Bengaluru, Jul 24: The High Court of Karnataka on Monday granted anticipatory bail to five persons, including former personal assistants (PAs) to Minister D K Shivakumar and his brother D K Suresh, in a case related to alleged illegal exchange of demonetised notes to new currency in November 2016. Justice Sreenivas Harish Kumar passed the order while allowing petitions filed by B. Padmanabhaiah