Karnataka

Bengaluru, Jan 25: Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy said on Wednesday that pro-farmer and pro-Kannada organisations have been asked to ensure the Karnataka Bandh on January 25 is peaceful without any destruction of property or inconvenience to public. "The bandh has been called keeping the state's interest in mind. Directions have been issued to police in all 30 districts to maintain law and order,"

Mangaluru, Jan 24: Haji Abdul Hameed Kandak, a well-known social worker, veteran community leader and philanthropist of Mangaluru, passed away on Wednesday evening after he suffered a massive cardiac arrest while delivering a speech. 72-year-old Haji is survived by his wife, four sons, a daughter, and a large number of relatives, friends and well-wishers. He collapsed on the stage while speaking

Mangaluru, Jan 24: The police have arrested six more persons in connection with the murder case of Deepak Rao, a youth who was hacked death by trouble mongers on January 3 at Katipalla on the outskirts of the city. The newly arrested six persons are Mohammed Rafiq, Irfan, Mohammed Anus, Mohammed Jahid, Hitayuthulla and Imran Nawaz. According to Mangaluru Police Commissioner T R Suresh, the above

Ramanagaram, Jan 24: A tense atmosphere prevailed in a local court in Karnataka’s Ramanagaram on Wednesday when a rape and murder convict turned violent after getting death sentence. Salim (35), the rape convict, who was given a death sentence by the district and sessions court judge, picked up some bricks in a fit of rage while walking out of the court premises and hurled them at media people and

Mangaluru, Jan 24: Ahmed Basheeer (48), who was hacked to death by a gang of communal goons earlier this month at Kottara Chowki area in the city, was in fact a random victim of conspiracy hatched by jailbirds, according to police. A resident of Akashbhavan, Basheer was running a fast food restaurant near Koattara Chowki for past one year. He breathed his last on January 7 at a hospital in the

Bengaluru, Jan 24: Denying the Bharatiya Janata Party’s charge that he is behind the proposed Karnataka bandh over the Mahadayi issue, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has said that he only support the cause of Kannadigas. Responding to BJP State president B.S. Yeddyurappa’s charge, Mr. Siddaramaiah said the bandh had been called by Kannada groups and farmers’ organisations. “Actually it will be a

Udupi, Jan 24: Prakash Javadekar, Union Minister for Human Resources Development, has predicted that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would win all seats of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts and come to power in Karnataka with a two-thirds majority. Addressing a meeting of the heads of various units of the BJP here on Tuesday, he said that the people were fed up with the four-and-a-half years

Bengaluru, Jan 24: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) of Karnataka has said that allegations and evidences lead to “a strong prima facie case” against BJP leader and the former Deputy Chief Minister R. Ashoka in a corruption case against him on a complaint about alleged illegalities in the regularisation of unauthorised occupation of government land between 1998 and 2007. In a statement, submitted

Two-and-half-year-old Pranavi, daughter of Jagadish and Nisha Latha couple at Mannagudde, Mangaluru, who supposed to be active and playing in and around her home, is now seeing the four walls of hospital on regular basis. She was diagnosed with blood cancer three months and has been under treatment since then in KMC, Mangaluru. When she was not able to walk at her early stages, her parents got her

Mangaluru, Jan 23: The Bharatiya Janata Party’s campaign against incumbent Congress government in Karnataka took an extremely ugly turn when a party leader declared in a public speech that the looming Assembly polls will be a direct battle between Allah and Rama in Bantwal constituency of Dakshina Kannada district. The Bantwal town police booked a case against Karkala MLA V Sunil Kumar under