Karnataka

Sirsi, Feb 15: BJP leader and union Minister Anant Kumar Hegde has asked the Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to get Congress president Rahul Gandhi's blood tested for purity. The Uttara Kannada MP was responding to the row over BJP state president B S Yeddyurappa’s allegation that Rahul had consumed chicken before visiting a temple. Dismissing Yeddyurappa’s allegation as baseless, Siddaramaiah had

As part of its campaign for upcoming Assembly elections, the Karnataka state unit of Bharatiya Janata Party will be organising a ‘Suraksha Yatra' in Coastal and Malnad regions from March 3 to 6. The party leaders will take out padayatra from two places -- Kushalnagar in Kodagu district and Ankola in Uttara Kannada district. Both the yatras will culminate in a rally at Suratkal in Dakshina Kannada

Udupi, Feb 14: Revenue Minister Kagodu Thimmappa on Wednesday inaugurated three new taluks in Udupi district. They are Byndoor, Brahmavar, and Kaup. With the inauguration of these three taluks, the total number of taluks in the district has doubled to six. Hitherto, only Udupi, Kundapur and Karkala had taluk status. While Byndoor taluk has been carved out of Kundapur taluk, Udupi taluk has been

Hyderabad, Feb 14: Police in Hyderabad on Wednesday registered a case for hurting religious sentiments of Muslims against the director of a Malayalam movie, whose song featuring actress Priya Prakash Varrier has gone viral. On a complaint by some youths in the old city of Hyderabad, the police registered a case against Omar Lulu, director of "Oru Adhaar Love" and some others. The case under Indian

The Congress government of Karnataka is celebrating the Bahmani Sultan Utsav with the single-minded motive of appeasing the Muslim electorate, according to BJP State General Secretary Shobha Karandlaje. Consequently, the BJP is opposing the move, she added. "Bahmani Sultans were anti-Hindu. They are infamous for destroying the Vijayanagar empire and killing Hindu kings. The government has planned

Ariz Khan alias Junaid, an engineer from Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh, who was facing terror charges, has been arrested by the Special Cell of Delhi Police from the Indo-Nepal border, police said on Wednesday. Junaid, who carries a reward of Rs 10 lakh announced by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), is facing charges of involving in serial blasts in Delhi, Varanasi, Jaipur and Uttar Pradesh. He

Bengaluru, Feb 14: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address at least four rallies in three weeks in poll-bound Karnataka. According to sources, the PM will participate in BJP rally in Mysuru on February 19; in Davangere on February 27; in Bijapur on March 4; and in Raichur on March 13. Top sources in the party said the Bijapur rally would take care of the Bombay-Karnataka region, which has 50

Kalaburgi, Feb 14: Congress leader Mallikarjuna Kharge took a dig at BJP leaders for what he termed as playing political games in the name of appeasing Dalits. "BJP leaders are constantly publicising that they ate, slept, stayed at dalits' houses. Does that mean dalits are sinners?" asked MP Mallikarjuna Kharge hotly. He was in Kalaburagi to participate in various functions including the launch of

Mangaluru, Feb 14: Muneer Katipalla, who is all set to contest upcoming assembly polls from Mangaluru City North constituency as a CPI-M candidate, has made a serious allegation of large-scale irregularities in awarding contract for Sewage Pumping Main Repair and Replacement Project of Mangaluru City Corporation. In a letter to the Chief Minister and the Chief Secretary, Mr Katipalla, who is also

Firebrand Dalit leader turned MLA Jignesh Mevani has used winking star Priya Prakash Varrier’s viral video clip to counter Sangh Parivar’s opposing to the celebration of Valentine’s Day in India. Extending his wishes on Valentine's Day with the viral video of Malayalam actress, Mevani tweeted: “Viral hit of ‘Manikya Malaraya Poovi’ is the answer to RSS's Valentine’s Day protest and again Indians