Karnataka

Mangaluru, Apr 5: NITTE (Deemed to be University) has been ranked 77th in the National Institution Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2018, rankings announced by the Ministry for Human Resources Development (MHRD), Government of India. This is the second year in succession that the young Deemed to be University has been ranked amongst the top 100 of the 800+ Universities of the country. This year, NITTE has

Gururaja Poojary aka P Gururaja, one of the prominent weightlifters of India, has made his country proud again by opening the gates for India’s wins in the 2018 Commonwealth Games being held on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. Son of a pick-up-truck driver from Chitturu village in Kundapur taluk of Udupi district, 25-year-old Gururaja entered the 56 kg category, and clinched the silver medal

Karkala, Apr 5: The delay in finalization of the candidate for Karkala Assembly Constituency in Udupi district has caused anxiety among the Congress workers who intend to wrest the segment from BJP in the forthcoming Assembly elections. A few Congress workers from the constituency on Wednesday held a press meet to publicly urge the top leaders of the party to finalize the candidate so that they

Udupi, Apr 5: Pramod Madhwaraj, Minister for Fisheries, Youth Empowerment and Sports, has sought additional security cover for himself from the Home Department because of the forthcoming Assembly elections. Speaking to media persons on Wednesday, Mr. Madhwaraj, who is also the Udupi district in-charge minister, said that he had written to the State Home Department seeking security in the view of

Mangaluru, Apr 5: A week after a cow was allegedly stolen from the Amrutadhara Gaushala at Kairangala in Bantwal taluk, the police on Wednesday managed to arrest two suspects in the case. The arrested have been identified as Ahmed Kunhi from Varkadi and Basheer from Montepadav. The other accused in the case will be arrested soon, the police said. The arrests come a day after the Hindu Jagaran

Bengaluru, Apr 5: Multilingual actor Prakash Raj on Wednesday filed a police complaint against Mahesh Vikram Hegde, the co-founder of Kannada website Postcard News, saying the portal published offensive articles about him. Raj cited two articles in the complaint. One of them scoffed at the actor, saying that after the death of his son, he deserted his wife and courted a danseuse. He has no

Bengaluru, Apr 5: To speed up the process of issuing passports, the Ministry of External Affairs has decided to do the police verification after the passport is delivered to the applicant, at no extra cost. The ministry has introduced the Out-Of-Turn Passports for normal first-time applicants. This was introduced after the ministry received a feedback and complaints from citizens that police

Bengaluru, Apr 5: Kannada film actor and social activist Chetan has strongly objected to his name appearing in the political “chargesheet” released by the BJP against the Congress, in which he has been branded as the leader of “Naxal-inspired” struggle. Speaking to presspersons, Mr. Chetan said: “I’m working for the rehabilitation of the people of Diddhalli and I have done nothing to be branded as

New Delhi, Apr 5: The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Karnataka government to verify the medical condition of a convict as he has been in jail for about 18 years after having been convicted and awarded life imprisonment for carrying out a series of blasts at various churches in the state in 2000. Hearing the bail plea of Syed Mohammed Ibrahim, a bench of Justices R K Agrawal and Abhay Manohar

Any politician may get a notice from Election Commission and may even have to go to jail for two years if his comments arguing in favour of him or his party is aired by a TV channel during the 48 hours before the end of polling for Assembly elections in Karnataka on May 12. The ban on airing any content, which might influence the voters, on TV and radio channels during the 48 hours before the