Karnataka

Mangaluru, Jan 12: Karnataka Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy on Friday laid foundation stone for the police quarters being constructed at a cost of Rs 6.28 crore at Shaktinagar in Mangaluru. The project is part of the chief minister Siddaramaiah led Karnataka government’s Police Gruha 2020, a scheme to provide housing quarters to all police personnel by 2020. The scheme, in totality, envisages

Non-governmental organisations working for the HIV-positive will, in association with the Karnataka State AIDS Prevention Society, has organised a Vadhu-Vara Samavesha for HIV-positive people at Hirisave in Channarayapatna taluk. The two-day event being organised to mark the 155th birth anniversary of Swamy Vivekananda commenced on Friday. Ravi Kumar, a supervisor with the AIDS prevention

Udupi, Dec 12: Karnataka’s Minister for Fisheries, Youth Empowerment and Sports, Pramod Madhwaraj, has opined that the awareness about consumer rights should start from schools and colleges. He was speaking after inaugurating the National Consumer Rights Day function organised by the district administration, the zilla panchayat, and other organisations, here on Thursday. Mr. Madhwaraj said that

In a gut-wrenching tragedy, an eight-month-old boy was killed in a ghastly road mishap at Palakkunnu, near Uduma in Kasaragod district on Thursday. The boy was crushed to death after being thrown out of an auto-rickshaw after it collided with a car, sources said. The accident occurred at 1.15 p.m. as the car ahead of the three-wheeler took a sudden U-turn and the auto-rickshaw overturned after

Lucknow, Jan 12: Two-days after Shia Waqf Board Chairman, Waseem Rizvi wrote a letter to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, requesting him to shut down madrasas alleging that they encouraged students to join terrorist ranks, Union Minister for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbasi Naqvi lashed out at media and termed people raising questions on madrasas as ‘mad’. Speaking to News18 in Delhi, Union

"Let Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar write a letter to Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah over the sharing of Mahadayi water for drinking water purpose. Then, we will convince the Congress leaders in Goa in this regard," KPCC president G Parameshwara told reporters here on Thursday. Accusing the BJP of double standards on the drinking water issue, Parameshwara said the BJP government in Goa

New Delhi, Jan 12: The Congress on Thursday was unfazed over the controversy created by Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's remarks likening the Bajrang Dal and the RSS activists to terrorists. "Siddaramaiah is the chief minister of a state, he has intelligence inputs and information that is not available with us. You can seek clarification from him," Congress spokesperson Tom Vadakkan told

Bengaluru, Jan 11: Karnataka BJP chief B S Yeddyurappa today asserted that he would become chief minister after the coming assembly elections and warned police officials working as "puppets" of the ruling Congress that the consequences "will not be right" for them. Addressing a rally as part of his 'Nava Karnataka Parivartana Yatre' at Sira in Tumkur district, the state BJP president said, "I want

Mudigere, Jan 11: The police have arrested a 20-year-old Hindutva chauvinist from Bantwal taluk for torturing a college girl belonging to Hindu community and forcing her to commit suicide in Mudigere. Santhosh (20), resident of Badagakajekar village in Bantwal taluk, was picked up by police on Thursday in Bengaluru by a team of Mudigere police led by PSI M Rafeek. Santhosh, who is a lift mechanic

Mangaluru, Jan 11: V V Rao, the director of Mangaluru International Airport, has falsified the reports that there was a vehicle on the runway during the takeoff of a Jet Airways flight on Thursday. “Wrong and vague information is being given by media. There was no tractor or any other baggage carrying trolley on the runway during the takeoff,” he stated in a release. He said that prior to the