Karnataka

Bengaluru, Jul 4: The Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) has asked the Election Commission to take necessary steps to keep Electronic Voting Machines and candidates with criminal background away from the 2019 Lok Sabha polls in India. Addressing a press meet here today, Elyas Muhammad, the newly elected state president of the organization, said that the country should go back to ballot system

Newsroom, Jul 4: Several media reports today claimed that doctor-turned-preacher Zakir Naik, who is allegedly being targeted by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government and its agencies, will be sent back from Malaysia. The National Investigation Authority had in 2017 filed a criminal case against Dr Naik, the founder of Islamic Research Foundation. Indian television channels such as Times

Bengaluru, Jul 4: In a bizarre incident, a couple allegedly duped a prominent Bharatiya Janata Party leader to the tune of Rs 1 crore by “selling” him 10 acres of State-owned land on the outskirts of the city with the help of forged documents and deeds. In his complaint Goolihatti D Shekar, the MLA from Hosadurga constituency, claimed that he came to known that it was actually a State-owned

Bengaluru, Jul 4: Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy took a jibe at the previous Congress government’s decision to import sand from Malaysia during a heated debate on illegal sand mining on Tuesday. “All the sand was looted. That’s why officials want to bring sand from Malaysia,” Kumaraswamy said in the Assembly. Several BJP legislators raised the issue of sand mining after their floor leader B S

Bengaluru, Jul 4: The Legislative Assembly witnessed heated exchange of words on Tuesday over falling standards of education in rural areas, with Speaker K R Ramesh Kumar dubbing the Right to Education (RTE) Act as “a law meant to serve the interests of only private schools.” The issue spiralled after JD(S) leader A T Ramaswamy pointed out that a government junior college he visited recently

Bengaluru, Jul 4: Former deputy chief minister K S Eshwarappa has filed a petition in the Karnataka High Court seeking quashing of the criminal proceedings with regard to a defamation case pending before the 81st Additional City Civil and Sessions Court. The petitioner says that the private complaint filed by Vinod B, advocate and anti-corruption activist, is among a string of complaints filed by

Kasaragod, Jul 4: A court here has awarded life term imprisonment to Misriya, 27, for murdering Nafeesath Misriya, wife of her former husband Abdul Rahman, by setting her afire while the couple were asleep at Kumbla, near here, on August 7, 2011. Pronouncing the verdict on Tuesday, District Additional Sessions Court (I) Judge P.S. Sasikumar also slapped a fine of Rs. 50,000 on Misriya, who had

Kasaragod, Jul 3: A senior Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) officer was stabbed to death allegedly by his neighbour, who later committed suicide by jumping in front of an express train close to the Kumbla station on Tuesday evening. The police said Sudhakaran, 55, son of Koraga Naik who is employed with the BSNL’s Muliyar divisional office, was killed by his neighbour Radhakrishnan, 51. The

Bengaluru, Jul 3: Opposition BJP today demanded that Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy come out with a "white paper" on the state's financial position before presenting the budget on July 5. BJP state president B S Yeddyurappa also hit out at the Congress-JD(S) coalition terming it as an "unholy alliance" for the sake of power, and said there was confusion among people about who the chief

Managluru, Jul 3: In its continuing drive to usher in a more eco-friendly campus, Yenepoya, a deemed to be university, has taken the pioneering initiative to install a 498kW rooftop Solar Farm at its flagship campus situated at Derlakatte in Mangalore. The solar farm, which is spread over 5 different buildings on the campus, has been installed by Yenepoya Medical College in partnership with OV