Karnataka

Mangaluru, Jul 9: Police have arrested three people and seized three cows and 200kg meat following a raid at Majal Adda in Belthangady in Dakshina Kannada district. The raid was carried out by the sleuths of the District Crime Intelligence Bureau (DCIB) unit of the Dakshina Kannada district police, on Sunday. The accused have been identified as Ibrahim, Arfak and Abdul. Three other accused Jabbar

Hassan, Jul 9: D K Shivakumar, Minister for Water Resources has said the State government would complete the integrated Yettinahole drinking water project and provide water to parched areas at the earliest. Speaking to reporters after visiting the project site in Sakleshpur taluk along with officers and people’s representativeson Sunday, he said: “About 70% of the civil works pertaining to

Mangaluru, Jul 9: At least five persons were killed and seven others were seriously injured when their jeep was rammed by a heavy goods truck on the national highway at Uppala. Jurisdictional Manjeshwaram police said that three women and two men from Talapady KC Road in Mangaluru taluk died in the mishap. The deceased have been identified as Bifathimma (65), Asma (30) Naseema (38), Mushtak (41)

Bantwal, Jul 9: In a shocking incident, a 20-year-old girl died after eating jackfruit in Bantwal taluk of Dakshina Kannada district recently. The victim is Hithakshi, the daughter of Chanila, a resident of Goltamajalu village near Kalladka in Bantwal. It is learnt that Hithakshi developed nausea soon after consuming jackfruit on Thursday. She also started vomiting. She was immediately rushed to a

On the eve of 43rd anniversary of the Emergency, which was imposed on the country in 1975, BJP has come out strongly condemning the event, has issued half page advertisement and Modi said that it was imposed to save the power of a family. There are claims that BJP’s parent organization RSS and its political predecessors valiantly fought against emergency. Surprisingly many streams of Indian

New Delhi, Jul 9: The BJP top brass has decided to allow former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa to remain the state unit president as well as the Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly till the next Lok Sabha polls are over. This, despite the party’s ‘one-person one-post’ policy. Though some sections in the party made a suggestion to the party leadership to remove Yeddyurappa from one of the

Mumbai, Jul 9: The Congress' Maharashtra in charge, Mallikarjun Kharge, on Sunday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said that a "chaiwala" could become the prime minister of the country because the party preserved democracy. "Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been asking, at every function, about what the Congress has done for the country in the past 70 years. A chaiwala like him (Modi)

Bengaluru, Jul 8: Stating that religious minority communities are responsible for the victory of non-communal parties in Karnataka, a senior Congress leader has opined that chief minister HD Kumaraswamy should not have ignored the minorities in the crucial budget. Former minister and Gadag MLA H K Patil has written to Kumaraswamy asking him to “set right” shortcomings in his budget by announcing

Jeddah: The 11th annual general body meeting of the Karnataka Non Resident Indian (KNRI) Forum, Jeddah was held at The Village Restaurant, Jeddah on the 29th of June 2018. Dr Firoz Mullah officially announced the start of AGBM and introduced himself to the audience as host of the event and briefed about the KNRI forum, introduced the guests and entertained the audience with his fluent Kannada

Kuala Lumpur, Jul 8: Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has met Dr Zakir Naik, and a ruling party strategist has stoutly defended the government's decision not to deport the physician-turned-preacher, Malaysian media reported on Sunday. The meeting, which may not go down well in New Delhi, took place on Saturday, a day after Prime Minister Mahathir ruled out deporting Naik, who has