Karnataka

Hyderabad, Jul 2: Amid the buzz over whether the Narendra Modi-led government would advance the Lok Sabha polls, senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily today said the BJP and the Prime Minister cannot decide on such a "constitutional issue" arbitrarily for "political expediency". He also called on the Opposition to unite for taking on the BJP in the next general elections. It is for all political

Kasaragod, Jul 2: A 29-year-old man lost his life when the car he was driving collided with a tanker lorry at Kallangai in the district yesterday. The deceased has been identified as P A Abdul Sajeer, son of Abdur Rahman, a resident of Mogral-Puthur village, near here. The accident occurred as the youth was proceeding to Kasaragod town to make some purchases for a ceremony for his baby daughter

Kochi, Jul 2: A SFI leader was stabbed to death and two others were injured in an attack allegedly by members of a pro-Islamic outfit at a college here, police said today. They were attacked allegedly by workers of the Campus Front and its parent outfit Popular Front of India (PFI) inside the Maharaja's College, Ernakulam, campus last night, they said. The condition of one of the injured students

Mangaluru, Jul 2: Union Minister of State for AYUSH Shripad Yesso Naik said that making National Eligibility-cum Entrance Test (NEET) compulsory for admission to Indian System of Medicine courses is part of the steps being taken by the AYUSH Department to upgrade education in Ayurveda, Unani, Sidda and Homoeopathy. Speaking at the inauguration of the 100-bed Sharada Ayurveda Hospital in Devinagar

Udupi, Jun 2: JD(S) MLC S L Bhoje Gowda has urged the Union Minister of State for Skill Development Anantkumar Hegde to stop making “cheap and reckless” statements against other political parties. Addressing presspersons here, Mr. Gowda said Mr. Hegde was a Union Minister and was expected to maintain some dignity. “Instead of making cheap remarks, he should learn to control his tongue. It is wrong

Bengaluru, Jul 2: Water Resources Minister D K Shivakumar on Sunday said that the Congress party had recognised even those who had grown up the ranks doing menial jobs like sweeping. Addressing the gathering after felicitating the newly elected Indian Youth Congress vice president Srinivas B V at Palace Grounds on Sunday, said Congress president Rahul Gandhi never hesitated from giving

Bengaluru, Jul 2: Eyebrows were raised when JD(S) supremo H D Deve Gowda was spotted at the Kumara Krupa guest house on Sunday, ahead of the coordination committee meeting of the JD(S)-Congress coalition government. Gowda’s presence at the guest house surprised many as he is not a member of the committee. The JD(S) patriarch, who has been attacked by the opposition for his continued “intervention”

Mumbai, Jul, 1: Five people were on Sunday lynched by a mob in Maharashtra's Dhule district over suspicion that they were part of a gang of "child lifters", police said. The incident took place at Rainpada, 25 kilometres from Pimpalner in Dhule district, at around 11.30 am, officials said. The five, along with a few others, were seen getting down from a state transport bus in the tribal-dominated

Bengaluru, Jul 1: A 40-year-old realtor attempted suicide outside Gate no. 2 of the Vidhana Soudha in the city yesterday. He claimed he was a victim of cheating and harassment. Gangadhar, a resident of Gauribidanur, stepped out his car, walked up to the security personnel outside Gate no. 2 and consumed poison, all while announcing that justice had not been served and that he was being harassed

Bengaluru, Jul 1: The wife of a senior officer of commercial taxes in Karnataka had to face questions from the sleuths of the National Investigating Agency (NIA) after the love story of a Hindu woman from Gujrat and Muslim man from Kerala culminated in exhibition of communal hatred. A section of media had called the inter-faith wedding a case of love-jihad, a term used by Indian Christian