Karnataka

Mangaluru/Udupi, Jun 8: The district administrations in the twin coastal districts have declared two-day holiday for schools as the southwestern monsoon continued to unleash its fury in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi. Though students went to schools in some places on Friday morning, they were sent back. On Saturday schools will remain shut owing to rains. The southwest monsoon that entered the state

Bengaluru, Jun 8: KT Naveen Kumar, the first arrested in the Gauri Lankesh murder case, has said the second accused Praveen had approached him to help kill her. Naveen said in his statement, a copy of which is available with DH, that he attended a religious seminar in Ponda in Goa, where he spoke about protecting Hinduism with arms. Everyone appreciated his views, the accused said. He also told

Bengaluru, Jun 8: The Congress would evaluate performance of its ministers every six months and changes would be made if required, said Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister G Parameshwara as he tried to pacify MLAs unhappy over not making it to the ministry. "Every six months there will be an assessment by the party to evaluate the performance of ministers, and ministers will be changed depending upon

Vijayapura (Bijapur), Jun 7: Basanagouda Patil Yatnal, BJP MLA for Vijayapura, has strongly justifies his hate-filled statement against Muslims in constituency and reiterated that elected representatives in the Hindu country should work for Hindus. A video of Yatnal instructing corporators to work only for Hindus, who have voted for him, and not for Muslims, has gone viral on social media. “I had

Mangaluru, Jun 7: The sleuths of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence have arrested a 28-year youth at Mangaluru International Airport for trying to smuggle six tola gold bars (699 grams) into the country. The sleuths kept a watch for one Umar Farook Kannadaguli (28), a resident of Manila in Bantwal taluk, who arrived by Spicejet Flight SG-60 from Dubai to Mangaluru around 6.15pm, Vinayak Bhat

New Delhi, Jun 7: Senior journalist Barkha Dutt, who was associated with NDTV for over two decades, today revealed that she had been receiving threats from certain quarters in the prime minister Narendra Modi-led union government to prevent her from working in television news. The development comes days after another journalist Ravish Kumar, who is still associated with NDTV, accused the ruling

Udupi, Jun 7: Former Naxal leader Nilaguli Padmanabh, who had joined mainstream nearly two years ago, was arrested by the district police here today. The police arrested him when he came to a local court in connection with a case. "There were two non-bailable warrants and two long pending cases against him and he has been arrested under the same," SP Lakshman Nimbargi said. Padmanabh was one of

Bengaluru, Jun 7: Supporters of senior Congress member Roshan Baig demanded a ministerial berth for him, a day after the state's new cabinet was sworn in. In this regard, Baig's supporters staged a protest here on Thursday, and said a capable minority minister is needed in the current Karnataka cabinet. "He (Roshan Baig) has done things nobody else has done before. We want a leader for the

Mangaluru/Benglauru, Jun 7: The coastal districts of Karnataka, that are recovering from May 30 deluge, likely to face heavy rainfalls till June 10, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD). Rains battered most parts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts early on Thursday morning. The next week is expected to see heavy rain across Karnataka as weather systems line up that could

Bengaluru, Jun 7: B R Bhaskar Prasad, a Dalit leader of Aam Aadmi Party, was arrested by police yesterday on charge of instigating saffron chauvinists to attack Dinesh Amin Mattu, a senior journalist and activist. Prasad, a resident of Nelamangala, had befriended Mattu when the latter was the media adviser to the then chief minister Siddaramaiah. However, personal differences had separated them