Karnataka

Bengaluru, Jun 26: Minorities Welfare and Wakf Minister B Z Zameer Ahmed Khan had convened a meeting of the community leaders on Monday, in a bid to ascertain the demands of the Muslim community ahead of the budget. Around 15 Muslim MLAs and MLCs from the JD(S) and Congress were present at the late evening meeting, which was held at a private hotel. Before the meeting, Khan said he had sent out

Bengaluru, Jun 26: Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy on Friday admitted that there's a rift in the JD(S)-Congress coalition government over presenting a full-fledged Karnataka budget. "Some have suggested that let the budget be presented after the parliament election, so there are issues," said the Janata Dal (Secular) leader and son of former Prime Minister of India HD Deve Gowda

Chamarajanagar, Jun 25: Around five dozen passengers who were traveling on board a Kerala-bound bus from Chikkamagaluru had a narrow escape when a mother elephant attacked the vehicle at Mulehole near Gundlupet town of the Chamarajanagar district last evening. When the mother elephant ran after the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) bus and attacked it with its trumpet, the driver

Mangaluru, Jun 25: Even as the torrential rains continued to unleash its fury in coastal Karnataka, a prominent bridge over River Phalguni at Mularpatna village on the outskirts of the city collapsed today. Authorities said that the bridge was razed to the ground after its columns were destroyed by debris carried in the fast-flowing river. Fortunately, there was no vehicle or pedestrian on the ill

Mangaluru, Jun 25: Hours after a bunch of burkha-clad girls staged a protest in front of St Agnes College in the city today against ban on headscarf inside classrooms, the principal downplayed the issue and justified the rules. In a statement issued to the media, Sr Dr M Jeswina AC, principal, said that her college is a minority institution catering to women’s education in particular. “We respect

Mangaluru, Jun 25: A bunch girls under the aegis of the Campus Front of India (CFI) today staged a protest in front of a prestigious private educational institution in the city over alleged restrictions on the hijab inside the classroom. The burkha-clad girls, a few Muslim boys who gathered near the entrance gate of St Agnes College raised slogans against the hijab ban and claimed that not

Madikeri, Jun 25: A Class 9 student of a top military school in Karnataka's Kodagu district was found dead under mysterious circumstance, sparking massive outrage. Officials said that 14-year-old NP Chingappa was found unconscious in the washroom of the Sainik School located at Kudige, near Kushalnagar. The washroom is connected to the laboratory. School authorities rushed him to a government

Newsroom, Jun 25: Senior BJP leader and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj became the latest victim of hardline Hindutva troll brigade on social media platforms after she voiced support for an inter-faith couple from Uttar Pradesh that faced harassment by a passport official. An upset minister “liked” numerous abusive and offensive tweets and wrote: "I was out of India from 17th to 23rd June

Bengaluru, Jun 25: BJP state president B S Yedddyurappa on Sunday dared Water Resources Minister D K Shivakumar to make public “secret diaries” which the Congress leader had claimed would expose BJP leaders in the state. Last week, soon after the Income Tax Department filed its fourth case of tax evasion against Shivakumar, he had termed it a “political vendetta” by the BJP at the Centre and had

Bengaluru, Jun 25: Parents of Parashuram Waghmore, the man accused of pulling the trigger on senior journalist Gauri Lankesh, met him at the CID headquarters on Sunday. The meeting happened 15 days after Parashuram's arrest from his residence in Sindagi in Vijayapura district for further interrogation in the case. Parashuram's mother Janaki Bai and father Ashok Waghmore arrived at the CID