Karnataka

Mangaluru, Feb 24: The 36th annual convocation of Mangalore University will be held on Monday, February 26 at 11.00 a.m. in the Mangala Auditorium on the Mangalore University Campus. Announcing this at a press meet here on Saturday Prof K Byrappa, vice chancellor of the MU, said that Prof Subra Suresh., President and Distinguished Professor, Nanyang Technological University [NTU], Singapore will

Athani, Feb 24: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah launched a verbal onslaught against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP state president B S Yeddyurappa during his address at the Janaashirvad Yatra rally in Athani on Saturday. "Narendra Modi is a great facilitator of corruption. The prime minister accuses the Congress government in Karnataka 10% government while his government allowed Nirav Modi to

Bengaluru, Feb 24: Elections to four Rajya Sabha seats from Karnataka will be held on March 23. The Election Commission of India announced on Friday the poll schedule for 58 seats, including four from the state to be vacated by industrialist Rajeev Chandrasekhar, who'd won as an independent, senior Congress leader K Rahman Khan, BJP members R Ramakrishna and Basavaraj Patil Sedam. The last date

Mangaluru, Feb 24: Notorious rapist and serial killer Mohan Kumar aka Cyanide Mohan, who had helped saffron groups to spread false rumors of so called “love jihad” and create communal riots, was on Friday convicted by the sixth additional district and sessions court in the murder case of a 28-year-old woman of Maladi of Meginamane in Bantwal Taluk. This is the fifth case of conviction among 20

Bengaluru Feb 24: The BJP on Friday accused Social Welfare Minister H Anjaneya of siphoning off crores of rupees meant for the benefit of the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and minorities in the state. The B R Ambedkar Development Corporation, which functions under the Social Welfare department, has on January 2 this year sanctioned drilling of 1,800 borewells in Holalkere Assembly

Bengaluru Feb 24: The presidents of two national parties - Rahul Gandhi of the Congress and Amit Shah of the BJP will be touring north Karnataka districts from Saturday as part of their parties' election campaign. Rahul will commence his second leg of Janaashirvaada Yatra from Belagavi. He will be touring Belagavi, Vijayapura and Dharwad districts for three days till February 26. Shah is scheduled

Bengaluru Feb 24: Siddaramaiah claimed that the public mood was in favour of the Congress and that he has conveyed the same to Narendra Modi when he had met him in Mysuru recently. When the BJP members took objection to the chief minister mentioning Modi's name in the Assembly, Siddaramaiah said, "Just because I took his name, it doesn't mean that I am disrespecting him. When I told Modi that the

More than a month after a Kannada television channel claimed that the police have managed to arrest a couple of prime accused in connection with the murder of journactivist Gauri Lankesh, another news channel in Karnataka on Friday, Feb 23, “revealed” the name of a Hindutva leader reportedly arrested by the police. BTV, a Bengaluru based channel, claimed that the Special Investigation Team probing

Chikkamagaluru, Feb 23: Chaitrashree BS, the president of Chikkamagaluru Zilla Panchayat, has been expelled from the Bharatiya Janata Party over her disobedience. In a letter, BJP state unit general secretary N Ravikumar said that Chaitrashree has been expelled from primary membership of the party for a period of six years. Chaitrashree was elected president of Zilla Panchayat in May 2016. As per

Bengaluru, Feb 23: Pandemonium over the issue of the colossal Punjab National Bank fraud case involving billionaire jewellery designer Nirav Modi today marked the last day of the Karnataka assembly session, ahead of the coming assembly polls. Amid heated exchanges with BJP members, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah asserted that Congress would retain the treasury benches in the next assembly and called