Karnataka

Bengaluru, Mar 7: The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday adjourned the hearing of Mohammed Nalapad Harris to Friday as special public prosecutor Shyam Sunday sought two more days to file his statement of objections. Mohammed, son of MLA N A Haris has filed a criminal petition in the Karnataka High Court seeking bail. The petitioner's advocate Usman, has sought an interim bail mainly on the grounds

Bengaluru Mar 7: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, who has been accused of facilitating special favours to jailed AIADMK leader V K Sasikala, on Wednesday claimed that he had not asked the prison authorities to provide any "VVIP" treatment to the Tamil Nadu politico. A day after retired Director General of Police (Prisons) H N Sathyanarayana Rao revealed that Sasikala was provided with a cot, mattress

Bengaluru, Mar 7: The Lokayukta of Karnataka, P Vishwanath Shetty was stabbed at his office in Bengaluru. He has been admitted in a serious condition at the Mallya hospital. The incident took place at the Lokayukta office at around 2 pm today. The accused person has been identified as Tejas and has been taken into custody. The police said that the accused person was summoned by the Lokayukta for

Mangaluru, Mar 7: Sasikanth Senthil S, Deputy Commissioner of Dakshina Kannada, has issued a notice to Mohammed Nazir, Commissioner of Mangaluru City Corporation, over illegal unauthorised banners, buntings and cutouts across the city. In the show-cause, served on March 5, the DC asked why disciplinary action cannot be recommend against the Mr Nazir for failing to get unauthorised things removed

Mangaluru, Mar 7: Continuing his spree of controversial statements, BJP leader and Union Minister Anant Kumar Hegde has said that the coming century would be a ‘Hindu century’. The hardline Hindutva leader, who had called for elimination of Islam and change of India constitution in the past, was on Tuesday addressing party workers during the last day of the BJP’s Jana Suraksha Yatra at Kulai in

Bengaluru Mar 7: The BJP's resounding "Sunya" (zero) to "Shikar" (pinnacle) victory in the hill state of Tripura has boosted the morale of the Karnataka unit of the party which is now planning to scale-up its election campaign at multiple levels, both at the grassroots and in the social media. The state unit which has nine parallel ongoing simultaneous election campaigns - targetting almost every

Kasaragod, Mar 7: The police have arrested three persons, including a minor, on the charge of supplying ganja to a Class 10 student of a school here who was found dead four days after he had been reported missing from his house on March 1. The highly decomposed body of Muhammad Jasir (15) was found in a drainage along the railway tracks at Kalanad, near Uduma, on Monday. A team led by Bekal Circle

Mangaluru, Mar 6: Giving a call for Congress-free Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday said that the grand old party has become a problem for the entire country. Addressing the finale of four-day Mangaluru Chalo Jana Suraksha yatra organized by state unit of BJP at Nehru Maidan, Adityanath said new political feeling is pervading Karnataka, especially after the declaration of

Mangaluru, Mar 6: Two disgruntled local leaders of Congress and BJP were inducted into Janata Dal (Secular) on Tuesday by former chief minister H D Deve Gowda at a party convention at Town Hall in the city. K Ashraf, former Mayor of Mangaluru City Corporation and Ramesh S, former chairman of Mangaluru Urban Development Authority, began a new political career in the JD(S) by launching a tirade

Mangaluru, Mar 6: Launching a tirade against the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party, former Chief Minister and JD(S) State President H.D. Kumaraswamy on Tuesday said that both the national parties have been indulging in divisive politics, sidelining development of the State. Interacting with a select group of achievers in different fields here, Mr. Kumaraswamy, said the government its