Karnataka

Mangaluru, Mar 22: APD Foundation in collaboration with Karnataka State Forest Department, Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) and Antony Waste Handling Cell Pvt Ltd. (AWHCPL) observed 6th International Day of Forests on 21st March 2018 (Wednesday) at Tree Park Tannirbavi, here. Mahesh Nayak, chief guest, inaugurated the event by planting a sapling along with Sri P. Shridhar, Range Forest Officer

Udupi, Mar 22: Accusing chief minister Siddaramaiah of dividing society and religion for political gains, BJP leader and Udupi Chikkamagaluru MP Shobha Karandlaje has said that a government’s job is not to create new religion. Registering her protest against the state Cabinet’s move to accord minority religion status to Lingayat community in Karnataka, she said that former CM Yeddyurappa had never

Bengaluru, Mar 22: After chief minister Siddaramaiah led Karnataka government upheld the demand of Lingayats for separate religion status, Kodavas, a martial race from Kodagu district has demanded that they should too be declared as a religious minority. On Wednesday, a memorandum was submitted to state minorities department on behalf of the community by M M Bansy and Vijay Muthappa. The

Karnataka BJP chief and former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa has now denied that he had signed a memorandum submitted to the Centre by the All India Veerashaiva Mahasabha (AIVM) in 2013 seeking independent religion status for Lingayats. However, documents clearly show he had indeed signed the petition. The copies of the memorandum bearing signatures of several BJP leaders including Yeddyurappa

Bengaluru, Mar 22: In an interesting development in Karnataka politics, A S Patil Nadahalli, a rebel Congress MLA from Devarahippargi, who had found place in the list of Janata Dal (Secular) candidates for Karnataka Assembly polls 2018, has embraced Baratiya Janata Party. The three time MLA from Devarahippargi in Vijayapura district, Nadahalli admitted that the prime reason for dissociating

Mangaluru, Mar 22: T R Suresh, Commissioner of Mangaluru City Police, has rubbished the rumours of action against a policeman for allegedly thrashing unruly mob during Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s recent Mangaluru visit, as false and baseless. Messages have been doing rounds on WhatsApp groups and other social media platforms that a police constable was suspended for thrashing members of the

Bengaluru, Mar 22: Would you enrol your son Aadhyaveer Narasimharaja Wadiyar at a government school or send him to a private institution? Why have you not come with your army? These were among several inquisitive questions posed to the scion of Mysuru's erstwhile royal family, Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar, and his wife Trishika Kumari by students at the BBMP school in Byatarayanapura on

Bengaluru, Mar 22: Visit to Siddaganga, Sirigere, Madara Channaiah and Muruga mutts, road shows, addressing coconut, arecanut growers conventions among others form part of the itinerary of BJP president Amit Shah during his two-day tour of four districts of central Karnataka from March 26. The mutt visit spree of Shah is seen as a move to woo the dominant Lingayat and electorally significant Dalit

Bengaluru, Mar 22: Water Resources Minister M B Patil on Wednesday claimed the phones used by him and his family members are being tapped and feared there would be Income Tax raids against him before the model code of conduct for the Assembly polls comes into force. "My phone is being tapped. Not only mine, also that of my son, my wife, people around me, my organisations... The phones of 10 to 12

Bengaluru, Mar 22: The BJP on Wednesday said the government's decision to accord religious minority status to Lingayat-Veerashaiva community was a "pure election gimmick" and charged Chief Minister Siddaramaiah with dividing the society. Addressing a press conference here, BJP national general secretary incharge of Karnataka P Muralidhar Rao termed the decision to constitute an expert committee