Karnataka

Bengaluru, Mar 23: Just days after the Karnataka government accepted the recommendation to recognise the Lingayat as a separate religion, the community was given minority status on Friday. Ignoring criticism from various political and religious sections, the Siddaramaiah government went ahead with its decision - one that was applauded by members of the Lingayat community. Friday's decision, much

Mangaluru, Mar 23: Yenepoya Institute of Technology, Moodbidri in association with APD Foundation and Karnataka State Pollution Control Board celebrated World Water Day 2018 on March 22nd 2018 at YIT campus. Dr Maheshwari Singh, Assistant Environmental Officer, KSPCB, Mangaluru and Sri Madhu S Manohar, Environmental engineer, Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC), Mangaluru inaugurated the event by

New Delhi, Mar 23: The Centre today told the Supreme Court that the NIA, being a special agency to probe national and inter-state terrorism cases, cannot investigate the murder of noted scholar and rationalist M M Kalburgi in 2015 at Dharwad in Karnataka. A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra was hearing the plea of Uma Devi Kalburgi, the widow of the slain scholar, seeking a SIT probe into

Bengaluru, Mar 23: The Janata Dal (Secular), which is sure of the defeat of its candidate, has demanded countermanding of election to fill four Rajya Sabha seats from Karnataka, alleging that the returning officer in 'collusion' with the ruling Congress in the state allowed two of its members to recast their vote after they 'cross-voted'. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, however, termed the charge as

Udupi, Mar 23: Brushing aside the rumours of his potential migration to Bharatiya Janata Party in near future, Pramod Madhwaraj, Minister for Fisheries, Youth Empowerment and Sports has made it clear that he would be contesting from Congress in the forthcoming assembly elections and not from any other party. Speaking to media persons here on Thursday, the minister said that he is the one who has

Manglauru, Mar 23: Police have arrested six including six women on charge of running a honey-trap racket that recently extracted a huge amount of money from a man by blackmailing him with his nude photos with women. The arrested have been identified as Ravi Gowda (42) from Mudigere taluk, Prithesh (36), a resident of Mission Compound, Jail Road in Mangaluru, Ramesh (35) from Padil Kodakkal in

A 22-year-old woman has been stabbed to death just hours before her wedding by her casteist father, who had grudgingly agreed to let her marry the man she loved. The incident took place at about 5 pm on Thursday, March 22, in Malappuram district of Kerala. Jurisdictional Areekode police have detained the killer father, Rajan. Athira, a resident of Poovathikandi in the district, was scheduled to

Mangaluru, Mar 23: Police have busted a vehicle theft racket by arrest four men and seized five cars valued at Rs 50 lakh from their possession. The operation was carried out by the sleuths of the City Crime Branch (CCB), along with personnel of the Mulki police station on Thursday. T R Suresh, Commissioner of Mangaluru City police told media persons that the arrests were carried out based on

Moodbidri, Mar 23: Two men, who had entered a forest in Karinje on the outskirts of Moodbidri for hunting earlier this week, were found dead yesterday under mysterious circumstances. Vivian Gratian Rodrigues (34), a resident of Prantya near Karinje and Praveen Tauro (32), a resident of Karenje had allegedly gone for hunting last Tuesday night without informing their families. Gratian Rodrigues was

Mangaluru, Mar 23: Fishermen working out of Mangaluru Fishing Harbour can now breathe a sigh of relief from the overcrowded Mangaluru old port as Minister of State for Fisheries, Youth Empowerment and Sports Pramod Madhwaraj on Thursday inaugurated a 102-metre-long jetty for idle berthing of fishing vessels at Sultan Battery. Built at a cost of Rs 5 crore, the 100 m long jetty abutting the