Karnataka

Mangaluru, Dec 31: Ramakrishna Mission’s Swacchata Abhiyan completed ninth week’s shramadan on December 31 at Bunts Hostel circle and Karangalpady area in the city. Srinivas Patil of KPES Institution, Dharwad and Madan, SI of Bunder Police Station jointly flagged off the drive. Dr Satish Rao, Dr Rajendra Prasad, Prabhakar Shetty and more than 100 volunteers were present on the occasion

Bengaluru, Dec 31: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Sunday claimed that the ways and methods of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Chief Amit Shah would not work in Karnataka. Speaking to ANI, Siddaramaiah said, "Amit Shah's magic will not work in Karnataka." Amit Shah is all set to spend the last day of this year in poll-bound Karnataka to strategise with state party leaders before gearing up

New Delhi, Dec 31: Terming the policy of allowing Muslim women to perform Haj only in the company of a male guardian as "injustice", Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said his government has removed the restriction following which hundreds of women have applied to travel alone for the pilgrimage. According to the ministry of minority affairs, now Muslim women aged above 45 will be allowed to

Senior Congress leader and Member of Parliament Maulana Mohammad Asrarul Haque has obliquely criticised the party high command for not allowing him to voice against the controversial Talaq Bill, which was passed by the Lok Sabha earlier this week in spite of severe opposition from Muslim women across Indian. Haque, who represents Bihar’s Kishanganj seat in the parliament, said in an interview that

Tension gripped the city of Rajamundry in Andhra Pradesh after unknown terrorists barged into a mosque, killed a Muazzin (the one who invites the faithful to prayer five times a day through Azaan), burnt copies of Quran and urinated there before vacating the place. The incident took place at Noorani Masjid of Lalacheruvu locality where the victim Mohammed Farooq (61), a native of Bihar, was

Udupi district in-charge minister Pramod Madhwaraj has urged the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to give priority to the four-laning of road stretch between Malpe and Adi Udupi on Malpe-Tirthahalli National Highway 169A. Chairing a meeting of engineers of various government departments at the taluk panchayat Hall in Udupi, Madhwaraj said that Malpe housed not just the fisheries harbour

Kannur, Dec 31: The police station at Koothuparamba in Kerala’s Kannur district came under bomb attack in the early hours of Saturday. The development comes weeks after cops seized explosives and other lethal weapons from the premises of RSS office in the region. The police said the bomb exploded nearly 30 metres from the backside of the police station around 12.30 a.m. The explosion caused no

Chandigarh, Dec 31: Widow of a Kargil martyr died at a private hospital in Haryanas Sonipat after the medical staff allegedly refused to admit her for not carrying her Aadhaar card, forcing the state government to order an inquiry into the matter today. Talking to media at Ambala, Health Minister Anil Vij said a team of health department has been sent to Sonipat to collect the details of the

Bengaluru, Dec 31: The JD(S) is learnt to be making all out efforts to persuade Sandalwood actor Sudeep to join the party ahead of the 2018 Assembly polls. Having remained out of power for over a decade, the regional party has lost its sheen. JD(S) state president H D Kumaraswamy now feels that bringing on board somebody like Sudeep, who is a superstar, will change the party’s prospects for the

Mysuru, Dec 30: Former Minister V Srinivas Prasad, who joined Bharatiya Janata Party last year, has caused embarrassment to his own party by calling Anant Kumar Hegde and G Madhusudhan fanatics and idiots. In a press meet held here on Saturday, Prasad said, "Hegde and Madhusudhan are insulting Narendra Modi-led NDA government by making idiotic statements like changing Constitution. The party