Karnataka

Hassan Mar 16: Former prime minister and JD(S) national president H D Deve Gowda, on Thursday, said that Veerashaiva-Lingayat faith has a rich history and that there was no need for a separate religion tag for Lingayats, reports DHNS from Hassan. Addressing media persons here, Gowda alleged that "I don't know why the government has chosen two ministers to fight for the separate religion tag for

Bengaluru Mar 15: A tweet by former union minister M Veerappa Moily, on Thursday night, raised eyebrows as he accused Public Works Minister H C Mahadevappa, who is Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's close side, of having a "nexus" with road contractors ahead of the elections. "INC needs to solve money in politics. We can't afford to have road contractors and their nexus with the state PWD minister

The next course of action in the Mangaluru pub attack case in which most of the accused were acquitted by a court would be taken in consultation with the state's legal team, Karnataka minister Ramalinga Reddy said today. Rightwing fringe group Sri Ram Sene chief Pramod Muthalik and several others were recently acquitted for lack of evidence. "We will take a decision in the pub attack case after

A new analysis by a group of scientists has found that more than 90% of the world’s most popular bottled water brands contained tiny pieces of plastic. The shocking revelation has prompted the World Health Organisation (WHO) to announce a review into the potential risks of plastic in drinking water. Analysis of 259 bottles from 19 locations in nine countries including India across 11 different

Chitradurga Mar 15: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday said that the countdown for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's regime had begun. He was speaking at the inauguration of various development projects at Hosadurga. "The BJP received a severe setback in the Uttar Pradesh and Bihar Lok Sabha assembly by-elections as it lost four of the five seats, including the all-important Gorakhpur and

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s son Dr Yathindra and Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy’s daughter Sowmya Reddy are among the probable candidates for the 2018 Karnataka Assembly polls from different constituencies. However, Siddaramaiah on Thursday claimed that Dr Yathindra has not sought the Congress party ticket to contest from Varuna constituency in the forthcoming Assembly elections. "My son hasn't

The Karnataka Congress has shortlisted two to three candidates each for constituencies where the party got defeated in the 2013 Assembly elections. A majority of the incumbent Congress members of the Assembly are expected to get ticket, sources in the party said. The party has received a whopping 1,570 applications for the 224 constituencies in the State. The party’s election committee members on

Mangaluru, Mar 15: Two youths have been arrested on charges of sexually assaulting a 19-year-old married woman in Kasaragod. Suhail, 23, and K.H. Saifuddin, 24, students of an engineering college in Mangaluru, were arrested after the woman lodged a complaint, Kasaragod Town Principal Sub-Inspector P. Ajithkumar said. The FIR said the woman who had left her in-laws house on March 7 with a close

Panaji, Mar 14: Underlining that online promotion of sex trade is a "complex social issue", Goa Governor Mridula Sinha today appealed to various agencies to launch combined efforts to curb the menace. The governor also said parents and teachers need to be more vigilant to ensure that girls don't fall prey to "such ills". "Online promotion of sex trade is a complex social issue which requires

Bengaluru, Mar 15: A special investigation team (SIT) probing the Guari Lankesh murder case has written to the Gujarat Forensic Laboratory seeking to fix a date to conduct a narco-analysis test on the accused KT Naveen Kumar. On March 12, a local court had given permission to the SIT to go ahead with the narco test after the accused kept changing his statements time and again. "We have sought