Karnataka

Mangaluru, Mar 20: A clinical all-round performance by coastaldigest.com helped them beat Bedra Bulls by 33 runs in the opening match of the Mangalore Premier League – 2018 on Tuesday. The MPL season 4 is being jointly organized by the Brand Vision Events, Mangalore Occasionals and Sea Bird Cricket Academy with the approval and guidance of Karnataka State Cricket Association at Dr B R Ambedkar

Siddaganga, Mar 20: The influential Siddaganga Mutt has welcomed the chief minister Siddaramaiah led Karnataka government’s decision to accord "religious minority" recognition to Lingayats and Veerashaiva-Lingayats who follow the philosophy of 12th-century social reformer Basaveshwara. Speaking to reporters here on Tuesday Siddalinga Swami, the junior pontiff of the Mutt, said: "We always stressed

Udupi, Mar 20: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is "insulting" the common man by claiming credit for India's progress, Congress president Rahul Gandhi said today, as he began his campaign in coastal Karnataka. Addressing a party rally at Padubidre in the coastal district, Gandhi accused the BJP of dividing people despite its talk of dharma. The Congress leader also accused the prime minister of

Udupi, Mar 20: All India Congress Committee chairperson Raul Gandhi, who on Tuesday began his coastal Karnataka tour, enjoyed breakfast sitting on the veranda of a small house at a village in Udupi district. Accompanied by chief minister Siddaramaiah and other party leaders Mr Gandhi visited the house of Kishore Kumar, convener of Kaup unit of Congress Seva Dal and Vice-President of Tenka Yermal

Udupi, Mar 20: All India Congress Committee (AICC) president Rahul Gandhi, whose two day coastal Karnataka tour began on Tuesday, happily mingled with the students of a government school at Tenka Yermal village in Udupi district. He arrived at Mangaluru International Airport, from where he took a chopper and arrived at the temporary helipad constructed on the ground of the Government Junior

Rubbishing the claims that the decision to grant a separate religious status to the Lingayat community was Congress’ political agenda, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday reiterated that the “Lingayat faith as a religion is an old one”. The clarification came after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), in the Opposition camp in the state, accused the Congress of striving to garner the

In a bizarre protest, two female students of a teachers training college in Kerala’s Kozhikode posted their topless pictures on Facebook recently after their professor criticised the new generation women for not dressing properly and asked them not displaying their chests like "slices of watermelon". Though Facebook has taken down the pictures and blocked the two girls from the social networking

Following the Karnataka Cabinet’s decision to recommend religious minority status for Lingayats, activists of two groups — one welcoming the decision and the other opposing it — clashed in Kalaburagi on Monday. Members of the Jagatika Lingayat Mahasabha (JLM), who have been on an indefinite agitation for the past couple of weeks demanding religion status for Lingayats, began to celebrate at Jagat

R.V. Deshpande, Minister for Large and Medium Industries, said that Karnataka was at the forefront in the entire country as far as industrial growth and generating employment was concerned. Speaking after laying the foundation stone for the establishment of an one million ton steel plant in Hosapete taluk by Sandie Manganese & Iron Ores (SMIORE) Ltd, he said that Congress government was committed

Mangaluru, Mar 20: Three staff of Moodbidri based Alva’s Education Foundation have been arrested by the police for allegedly thrashing several II Pre University students after dragging them from their hostel rooms. The arrested have been identified as Rajesh, Nagesh and Khader K who are working as wardens and student welfare officers at the hostel located in Pushpagiri and managed by the