Karnataka

Bengaluru, Apr 8: The head of Basava Dharma Peetha at Kudalasangama, Mathe Mahadevi, has openly gave a call to the Lingayat community to back the Congress and Chief Minister Siddaramaiah in Karnataka assembly polls as the state government has considered their demand for a separate religion despite widespread opposition. At the Lingayat Matadhipathigala Vedike’s meeting here, she came down on the

Udupi, Apr 8: A 25-year-old civic labourer died after inhaling toxic fumes while cleaning a manhole at M-Kodi near Kasaba village in Kundapur taluk of Udupi district on Saturday. The deceased is Sandeep, a Dalit youth from Thekatte. His mother was a former Thekatte gram panchayat member. The incident happened when Sandeep and few others were engaged for cleaning work by one Abdul Khader Geelani as

Mangaluru, Apr 8: The Dakshina Kannada district police on Saturday arrested an elderly man nearly four decades after he attempted to kidnap a person in Belthangady on the outskirts of the city. The arrested man has been identified as Antony Rodrigues (70), a resident of Maddadka in Belthangady. Police picked him from Lorettopadav in Bantwal and produced before the court. The case dates back to

Bagalkot, Apr 7: In what could come as an embarrassment for the ruling Congress in Karnataka, an audio clip of an intimate conversation between Jamakhandi MLA Siddu Nyamagouda, and a woman, said to be a party worker, has gone viral on social media. 68-year-old Nyamagouda is a veteran Congress leader from Bagalkot, who served as union minister in the past. The 16-minute audio conversation has

Dubai, Apr 7: An Indian driver in Dubai has hit a jackpot by winning a whopping Dirham 12 million (USD 3.2 million or Indian Rs. 21 crore) in a raffle draw in Abu Dhabi, the latest addition to the long list of lucky winners from India. John Varughese, who has been working as a driver for a private company since 2016 when he came to Dubai from Kerala, won the huge amount at the Big Ticket raffle

Bengaluru, Apr 7: Niranjan Thomas Alva, Supreme Court advocate and husband of senior Congress leader Margaret Alva, passed away here today after a brief illness, a family member said. Son of Joachim and Violet Alva, freedom fighters and the first couple in the Indian Parliament, 78-year-old Alva was also a former Director of the State Bank of India. Alva had played a key role in expanding the

Bengaluru, Apr 7: Nurse-turned-actress Jayalakshmi, who had hit the headlines over a decade ago by releasing the photos of her lip-lock with former minister and BJP leader Renukacharya, has formally joined the All India Mahila Empowerment Party (MEP). She was inducted into the MEP by the party’s supremo and gold tycoon Dr Nowhera Shaik at a ceremony at Leela Palace in the city on Friday. Speaking

Bengaluru, Apr 7: The Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) on Saturday clarified that a so called Intelligence report that is doing rounds on social media, stating that Chamundeshwari Assembly constituency not safe for Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, was a fake report. The Intelligence DIG has been asked to conduct a probe into the fake report, the CMO stated in a press release. "The Intelligence department

Bengaluru, Apr 7: The customs department has registered over 200% increase in gold seizures at the Kempegowda International Airport (KIA), with sleuths having confiscated 100 kgs of gold worth Rs 30.48 crore during the financial year 2017-18. Comparatively, the department had seized 34.5 kg of gold worth Rs 9.97 crore the previous year. This year, 34 people have been arrested in this regard

Bengaluru, Apr 7: In the past few days, unaccounted cash and material worth nearly Rs 9 crore has been seized by the police and Election Commission. On Friday, April 6, afternoon Central division police arrested a civil contractor along with his driver for carrying Rs 1.5 crore of unaccounted cash. Police believe that the money was being transported to distribute to voters ahead of the state