Karnataka

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

Amjan: Bearys Cultural Forum conducted BCF Sports Festival 2018 at the Thumbay Ground in Ajman, UAE under the guidance of its President Dr. B.K. Yusuf. The event was chaired by Afeeq Hussain. Dr. Thumbay Moideen, Founder Patron, BCF and Founder President, Thumbay Group, B.A Ashraf, Managing Director of Moideen Wood Works, B.M. Nazeer, Director, Canara Chamber of Commerce were the guests of honour

Mangaluru, Feb 23: Philanthropist and Konkani Activist Roy Castelino on Friday resigned from the post of the chairman of Konkani Museum Foundation sponsored by the Mandd Sobhann, premier Konkani institution of Coastal Karnataka. In his resignation letter submitted to the President of Mandd Sobhann, Louis Pinto he stated as following: “That I have been very active in the formation and progression

Mangaluru, Feb 23: Hundreds of activists of Popular Front of India on Friday converged in front of the office of deputy commissioner in Mangaluru to register their protest against Jharkhand’s BJP-led government’s decision to ban the outfit in the eastern state. The protesters rubbished the Jharkhand government’s charge that PFI has connections to the so called Islamic State, a dreaded terror

Dammam, Feb 23: Karnataka NRI Forum, Dammam Eastern Province, will hold a felicitation ceremony for Dr Arathi Krishna, Deputy Chairman, NRI Forum of Karnataka government, during her official tour of Saudi Arabia. President of Karnataka NRI Forum Eastern Province, Zakaria Bajpe Al Muzain, said in a press release that, she will be addressing non-resident Indians/Kannadigas, interacting with the

Chikkaballapur, Feb 23: In a shocking incident, a Janada Dal (Secular) worker chopped off the left arm of a Congress worker at a saree distribution programme in Gauribidanur taluk of Chikkaballapur district yesterday. Police said the incident occurred when a saree distribution campaign was going on at Arkunda village, Manchenalli and JD(S) and Congress workers clashed over an issue of election