Karnataka

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

Mangaluru, Apr 4: A centenarian woman from coastal Karnataka, who had gone to Saudi Arabia two weeks ago to perform Umrah died of heart attack in the holy land of Makkah on Monday, Apr 2, family sources said. Fathima aka Paathumma (104), a resident of Boluvar village in Puttur taluk of Dakshina Kannada district, had undertaken the pilgrimage through a private travel agency. The end came when she

Jubail Oct 4: All India National Congress – NRI Forum, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia will be organizing a party convention this weekend amidst preparations for May 12 Karnataka Assembly polls. Mangaluru City North MLA B A Mohiuddin Bava will inaugurate and Karnataka Minister for Forests, Ecology and Environment, B Ramanath Rai will presided over the function being held at Jubail SABIC - Kemya

Mangaluru, Apr 4: The Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) will be holding a pre-poll conference at Deralakatte in Mangaluru assembly constituency limits on Friday, April 6, as part of its preparations for May 12 elections. In 2013 polls, SDPI had fielded its candidate in Mangaluru constituency represented by U T Khader, Minister for Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs. This year, however

Mangaluru, Apr 4: Hardline Hindutva outfits such as Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal have warned of series of protests across Dakshina Kannada if the police if the police fail to nab all the alleged cattle thieves and traffickers in the district by Thursday, Apr 5. The warning comes at the hunger strike launched by the members of Amruthadhara Gaushala at Kairangala village (Bantwal taluk)

Mangaluru, Apr 4: Every district administration in the state is taking extra care to ensure that the maximum number of voters get a chance to vote in the 2018 Karnataka Assembly polls. But the Dakshina Kannada Principal District and Sessions Judge K S Bilagi has claimed that he has been unable to exercise his franchise for the last 32 years because he has been transferred during election time