Karnataka

Cobrapost, an investigative platform, which carried out several sting operations on communal and corrupt politicians in the past, this time exposed several prominent Indian media houses whose representatives were caught on camera expressing their willingness to spread communal hatred and promote so called “Hindutva” for money. Codenamed ‘Operation 136’, the sting operation was conducted to expose

Mangaluru: If everything goes as expected a state-of-the-art market-cum-commercial complex will come up at Mallikatta in the heart of the city within a couple of years. Mangaluru City South MLA J R Lobo and Mayor K Bhaskar Moily on Monday, March 26, laid the foundation stone for the multi-crore project proposed by the Mangaluru City Corporation. The complex, to be built on 45 cents of land after

Bharatiya Janata Party’s “Controversy Express” Anant Kumar Hegde this time has claimed that Indians like chief minister Siddaramaiah are bigger problem than Pakistan. Addressing a Ramnavami programme in Yadgir on Sunday, March 25, Hegde, who is a five-time MP from Uttara Kannada and incumbent Union Minister of State for Skill Development, said that Congress had an agenda of dividing Hindus

Tiptur, Mar 26: BJP President Amit Shah today maintained that the Siddaramaiah government's move to accord separate religious minority status to Lingayats and Veerashaiva Lingayats was aimed at preventing B S Yeddyurappa from becoming Chief Minister. "This Siddaramaiah government has brought this proposal, not because it has a love for Lingayats, but to prevent Yeddyurappa from becoming Chief

Bengaluru, Mar 26: A fresh pre-poll survey which predicted that Congress will sweep 2018 Karnataka assembly polls, has also revealed that 45% people in the state want continuation of Siddaramaiah as chief minister. The C-Fore which conducted the survey between March 1 and 25 spoke to 22,357 voters across 154 assembly constituencies. The respondents were spread across 2,368 polling booths covering

Bengaluru, Mar 26: A fresh pre-poll survey has predicted that the ruling Congress will not only return to power in Karnataka in 2018 polls, but will also improve its tally in the 224-member legislative assembly. The survey conducted by C-Fore gives the Congress 126 seats this year. It says that the BJP will improve its tally with 70 seats. However this would be at the cost of the JD(S), whose

Mangaluru, Mar 26: After three months of ordeal in Saudi Arabia, a youth from Bantwal taluk of Dakhsina Kannada district today reached home safe thanks to a Facebook post which spurred a few Good Samaritans to help him. Sukumar Shettigar, a resident of Bondala near Kalladka, a communally sensitive town in Bantwal taluk, had flown to Saudi Arabia three months ago after he was promised a driver’s

Bengaluru, Mar 26: Human rights activist and Supreme Court advocate Prashant Bhushan has warned the people of Karnataka that the “greater evil” for them is the Bharatiya Janata Party. “Though the choice before voters in Karnataka is between the devil and the deep sea, the BJP is a far greater evil,” he told presspersons here on Sunday after addressing a gathering on political corruption and

Kasaragod, Mar 26: A 12-year-old fell to death after her shawl got entangled in the wheel of the motorbike she was travelling on with her parents at Birikulam, near Parappa in Kasaragod on Sunday. The victim is Maria, daughter of Saji and Bindu, residents of Periyanganam. Maria was a class VII student of Government Higher Secondary School, Parappa. The tragic incident occurred around 8 a.m. when

Mangaluru, Mar 26: A 33-year-old man and his three-month-old daughter died in a freak accident when they were thrown out of an auto-rickshaw after the three-wheeler brushed against a stationary container truck and lost balance on Mani-Madikeri Highway in Sullia of Dakshina Kannada district on Saturday night. The deceased have been identified as Chittaranjan (35) and his daughter Lia (3 months)