Karnataka

Bengaluru, Mar 17: The latest allegation of cash-for-ticket is not the first such the Congress is facing during the Karnataka Assembly elections. During the distribution of tickets for the Assembly elections in 2008, senior leader Margaret Alva had made similar allegations. Margret, then an AICC general secretary, reportedly made the charges against the party leadership for denying the ticket for

The number of divorced and separated women in the country has increased by over nine lakh from 2001 to 2011, with Maharashtra leading the tally with 11,9554 such women, the Indian parliament was informed today. In a written reply in Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Women and Child Development Ministry Virendra Kumar said while the number of divorced and separated women was more than 23 lakh in

Bengaluru, Mar 16: A former Karnataka top cop has found himself surrounded by fresh controversy after his remarks over the physical appearance of the mother of 2012 Delhi gangrape victim. Speaking at a ceremony organised to honour women last week, former Karnataka DGP HT Sangliana had allegedly said that he can "imagine how beautiful the gangrape victim would have been" by seeing the "good

A day after he accused Karnataka PWD minister through his unverified twitter account of having a nexus with road contractors, Senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily has deleted the controversial tweet and claimed that he never made any allegations against any party leader. The Chikkaballapura MP, who is also Congress’ manifesto committee chairman in poll-bound Karnataka, on Thursday, March 15

Bengaluru, Mar 16: Karnataka BJP chief and former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa has moved the High Court seeking a direction to restrain the media and Congress leaders from making statements against him in connection with the criminal cases already closed and those pending against him. Justice G Narendar, before whom the petition came up for hearing on Thursday, ordered issuance of notices to the

Mangaluru, Mar 16: A massive fire swept through a scrap yard creating panic among local residents at Bunder area in the city on Friday morning. There was no loss of life reported from the fire which was noticed at 6 a.m. at the scrap shop located on Bibi Alabi Road in Bunder. Short circuit is said to be the reason for the mishap. An eyewitness, Siraj, said the deadly fire spread like a wild

Bengaluru, Mar 16: The special investigation team probing the killing of journalist Gauri Lankesh is exploring the possibility of conducting various tests on the arrested accused to ferret out information about others involved in the crime, a senior police official said on Thursday. “The accused (T Naveen Kumar alias Hotte Manja) has been denying his role in the murder though we are pretty sure

Kasaragod, Mar 16: Actor-cum-activist Prakash Raj, who has raised his voice against fascist tendencies by the Sangh Parivar, has now criticised the Communist Party of India (Marxist), accusing it of suppressing an agitation by farmers seeking realignment of the National Highway set to pass through a paddy field at Keezhattur in Kerala. Workers of the CPI(M), which successfully organised a farmers

Mangaluru, Mar 16: As many as 11 belonging to lower caste of Hinduism bid adieu to their religion and converted into Buddhism in a remote village in Puttur taluk of Dakshina Kannada yesterday. The converted Dalits have been identified as Puttanna, Susheela, Nayan Kumar, Namitha, Sathish Kumar, Prema, Harsha, Susheela, Vishwanath, Manoj Kumar and Ganesh. The conversion took place during the house

Mangaluru, Mar 16: Brushing aside the reports in a section of media that there was a fire in its aircraft bound for Hyderabad from Mangaluru International Airport at 8.50 a.m. on Wednesday, SpiceJet has said that the flight was cancelled due to a technical issue. The media reports had suggested that the plane had to return from the runway to the parking bay after smoke erupted from it. However