Karnataka

Udupi, Jan 3: Most Rev. Gerald Isaac Lobo at Pilar-Shirva, the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Udupi on Tuesday inaugurated the constructed Infant Jesus Church at Pilar in Udupi district in the presence of a large number of priests and parishioners. According to a release issued by the Diocese here, the ceremony of the inauguration and blessing of the church commenced as Dr. Lobo along

Mangaluru, Jan 3: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has said the party did not concur with the controversial Talaq Bill brought by the Central Government as it had no clarity. CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury who was in Moodbidri on Tuesday for a party event, said, "As far as the CPM is concerned, we have always been opposed to the arbitrary and the instantaneous character of triple

Mangaluru, Jan 3: Communist Party of India (Marxist) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury on Tuesday opined that the farmers and labourers will be the twin forces that will stop the Ashwamedha horse of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Shah. Addressing a public meeting as part of the 22nd CPI(M) State conference here at Swaraj Maidan in Moodbidri on the outskirts

Bengaluru Jan 3: The State Cabinet on Tuesday decided to make it mandatory for all government employees to declare the present guidance value of the properties owned by them and their dependents. Briefing reporters after the meeting, Law Minister T B Jayachandra said henceforth the employees will also have declare the properties owned by their children and parents. Hitherto, they had to declare

Bengaluru Jan 3: A selection committee headed by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah decided to appoint D H Waghela, former chief justice of the Karnataka High Court, as the chairman of the Karnataka State Human Rights Commission (KSHRC). The post has been lying vacant for the last five years after Justice S R Nayak demitted office in 2012. Siddaramaiah announced the decision after chairing a meeting of

Priyank Kharge, Karnataka Minister for IT and BT, on Tuesday, wrote to the Election Commission of India (ECI), seeking an electronic voting machine (EVM) challenge to test the machines for errors. In his letter to Achal Kumar Jyoti, the Chief Election Commissioner, Kharge has proposed that the EVM challenge be jointly hosted by the Karnataka government and the ECI, where stakeholders of the

Mangaluru, Jan 2: Hours after a group of communal rowdies thrashed a few college students belonging to different faiths at Pilikula in Mangaluru taluk on Tuesday, the police arrested three of the assailants. The arrested have been identified as Sampath Shetty, Varada and Dinesh – all said to be local residents. All of them are said to be self-styled Hindutva activists. Two girls of first PU- a

Mangaluru, Jan 2: In a fresh case of communal vigilantism, a group of trouble mongers, suspected to be activists of a saffron outfit, on Tuesday pounced on two male and two female students of a pre-university college hurling abuses at them just because they were together in a tourist spot on the outskirts of the coastal city despite belonging to different faiths. The incident took place at Manasa

New Delhi, Jan 2: Congress in the Lok Sabha today sought the immediate intervention of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in resolving the drinking water problem in Karnataka. Raising the issue during Zero Hour, S P Muddahanumegowda said people in the state, particularly in the northern region, were facing a severe water crisis. Karnataka is seeking water from Mahadayi river for meeting drinking water

Managluru, Jan 2: A Nigerian citizen, who was arrested by the police in the city last year on charge of drug peddling, is now jailed for overstaying in India. Principal District and Sessions Judge K.S. Bilagi on Monday sentenced Chigozie Francis Christoper (37), a native of Gbagada in Nigeria, to two year imprisonment on finding him guilty of overstay. Christoper was arrested by the Central Crime