Karnataka

Dubai: Saanvi Kiran Rai, a Class 9 student from Mangaluru was recently honoured during the 44th UAE Bunts family annual programme held at J W Marriott Hotel, Dubai by the patron of Bunts Padmashree Dr B R Shetty as the ‘2018 Prathibha Puraskar’ student. In April 2016, when she was a Class 7 student at St Joseph’s School, Abu Dhabi, Saanvi had received the prestigious ‘Sheikh Hamdan Award’ which

Bagalkot, May 28: Former union minister and newly-elected Congress MLA Siddu Nyamagouda died in a road accident in Bagalkot district early on Monday, a senior police official said. Nyamagouda was on the way to his constituency Jamkhandi from Goa when the car he was travelling in tried to avoid a lorry and hit a roadside parapet wall, District Superintendent of PoliceVamshikumar said. The 70-year

Bengaluru, May 28: Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamytoday said he was at the 'mercy' of Congress and not the 6.5 crore people of Karnataka as his government had not received the full mandate which his party had sought in the assembly elections. Ahead of his Delhi visit to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other union ministers, he reiterated that farm loan waiver was his priority as he

Bengaluru, May 28: Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy, on Sunday, hinted that there was a tug-of-war between the Congress and the JD(S) with regard to portfolio allocation. The two parties have already come to an understanding that the Congress will have 22 ministerial berths (including chief minister) and the JD(S) will have 12 (including the CM) in the council of ministers. Kumaraswamy is keen on

Mangaluru, May 27: A police constable suffered burns on his face reportedly following lightening at the IPL fan park set up in Nehru Maidan, in the city on Sunday night. According to police, the lightning struck near the big LED projector in the fan park. Siddappaji, a constable with City Armed Reserve (CAR), who was near the projector suffered burns and was immediately shifted to nearby private

Chitradurga, May 27: Koodalasangama Basava Dharma Peetha supremo Mathe Mahadevi has warned the prime minister Narendra Modi-led union government that she would not hesitate to approach Supreme Court if it failed to accord separate religion status to Lingayat-Veershaiva (Basava Tatva). Speaking to media persons, here on Sunday, the woman seer said that the struggle for a separate religion tag, was

Bengaluru, May 27: A 60-year-old man has become the talk of the town after he saved a septuagenarian from a leopard and trapped it inside his house at Bellikothanur village near Kanakapura town in Ramanagara district on Friday night. 75-year-old Dodda Thimmaiah was asleep around midnight when the leopard sneaked into the raw silk godown. When Thimmaiah panicked on seeing the feline, it pounced on

Bengaluru, May 27: Days after rumours about her death went viral on social media, centenarian environmentalist Saalumarada Thimmakka has urged the people not to forward messages without verifying them. On Saturday morning, she made her way to the Police Commissioner’s office in the city with her supporters, to lodge a complaint with the cybercrime cell against those who had “killed her” in the

Bengaluru, May 27: Former minister D K Shivakumar, who played a key role in formation of Congress-JD(S) coalition government in Karnataka by protecting his party MLAs from BJP’s poachers, is the front runner for the post of the president of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC), party sources said. Deputy Chief Minister G Parameshwara has already announced that he would step down as KPCC

Mandya, May 27: N Cheluvarayaswamy, Zameer Ahmed Khan and other former JD(S) leaders, who joined Congress ahead of Karnataka polls, have no complaints against the coalition government led by chief minister H D Kumaraswamy, but, personally they are not ready to support him. N Cheluvarayaswamy, who lost the Assembly polls after hopping from JD(S) to Congress, on Saturday said that he will not