Karnataka

Bengaluru, Jul 17: IT-BT Minister K J George has said that 500 gram panchayats (GPs) in Karnataka have already been provided free Wi-Fi services and the rest will have them soon. Speaking after inaugurating free Wi-Fi services for 180 GPs in Belagavi district today, George said that the state government would provide Wi-Fi services to all the GPs in the state in phased manner. The service would

Chikkamagaluru, Jul 17: The Supreme Court of India has set aside a Karnataka High Court order granting anticipatory bail to Khandya Praveen, a Vishwa Hindu Parishadh and Bajrang Dal leader from Chikkamangaluru in connection with an abduction case which had culminated in suicide of a police officer. The court said such a relief cannot be granted to a person against whom a non-bailable warrant has

Mangaluru, Jul 17: A suspected saffron activist has been arrested for spreading communal hatred through and making false and provocative allegations against Muslim college students through WhatsApp groups. Ashish, a resident of Asaigoly, Konaje, was picked up from Kunil Complex at Kankanady in the city by the sleuths of Mangaluru North police station yesterday. He was booked under sections 153 A

Mangaluru, Jul 17: The Public Works Department (PWD) has been instructed to fill potholes on all roads maintained by it in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi from July 23 to make them motorable, said Minister for Urban Development and Housing U T Khader. Addressing media persons after a meeting with MLAs from both the districts to discuss road issues yesterday, the Minister said that the PWD maintained

Manjeshwar, Jul 17: The police registered cases against four cow vigilantes for attacking the occupants of a house at Beripadavu, near Kumbla yesterday. The incident unfurled on Sunday evening when a pick-up van transporting a cow from Mangaluru was waylaid by a group of motorcycle-borne youths at Beripadavu. A youth, Abubacker Siddique, tried to take a video of the incident on his mobile phone

Kasaragod, Jul 17: A 14-year-old boy drowned in a swollen waterbody at Ayitti, near Thrikkarippur in Kasaragod yesterday. The police said T.P. Muhammed Susharaff, a Class 9 student of Government Higher Secondary School, Pilicode, drowned in the waterbody formed due to illegal sand-mining, around 5 p.m. when he entered the waters along with his friends while on a visit to the residence of a

Vijayapura, Jul 17: Babaleshwar MLA M B Patil said on Monday that there was no question of giving up the agitation for a separate religion tag for Lingayats. The future course of the agitation would be charted out once former IAS officer S M Jamdar returns from foreign tour, at a meeting to be attended, among others, by Council pro tem chairperson Basavaraj Horatti. The former minister refuted

Bengaluru, Jul 17: Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy on Monday sought to clarify that his emotional outburst was not because of the Congress, but due to unhappiness that he was not getting enough support despite pro-people works. “Media has twisted my statements,” Kumaraswamy told reporters in Ramanagara. “Despite financial constraints, I have waived Rs 40,000 crore of crop loans and I’m doing other

Bengaluru, Jul 16: Senior Karnataka Congress leader KB Koliwad on Monday accused some of his own party leaders of "tormenting" Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy, who had said that he was "not happy" being in the top post and was swallowing the pain like 'Vishakantha' (Lord Shiva), who drank poison. "There are some Congress leaders who are tormenting him. I won't disclose the names. Those who are not

Thiruvananthapuram, Jul 16: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor's office here was vandalised today by the youth wing activists of the BJP, police said, days after he set off a huge row with remarks that the BJP, if voted to power again, will rewrite the Constitution and pave the way for creation of a "Hindu Pakistan". The Congress Lok Sabha member from the Kerala capital said the BJP and "Sanghi goondas"