Karnataka

Mudigere, Dec 30: B S Yeddyurappa, the Karnataka state unit president of Bharatiya Janata Party has said that his party would implement death sentence to rapists within 24 hours of coming to power in Karnataka. Speaking at BJP’s parivarthana yathra in Mudigere on Saturday, he said that the Congress has no moral right to speak on Dr B R Ambedkar. The Congress had conspired against Ambedkar during

An Indian expatriate died of heart-attack in United Arab Emirates after hearing the news of his mother's demise back home. The deceased is Anil Kumar Gopinathan from Kerala, who was working at a tailoring shop in Umm Al Quwain for 20 years. The incident happened last week amid festive rush at his shop. Last Thursday, Anil was informed about his mother's death. Same night his brother Santosh, based

Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani has requested the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee not to field candidates against the activists associated with people’s movements during upcoming state assembly polls. The Dalit leader, who was in Chikkamagaluru on Friday to attend an event organised by the Karnataka Komu Souharda Vedike, said that at least 10 to 15 candidates associated with people’s movements

Mangaluru, Dec 30: Dakshina Kannada Deputy Commissioner Sasikanth Senthil has issued orders to extern two persons including a leader of Hindu Jagarana Vedike (HJV) for six months on charge of causing communal riots in Bantwal taluk earlier this year. A clash between HJV leader Ratnakar Shetty and one Ibrahim Khaleel at Kalladka on June 13 had snowballed into communal clash in the region. Shetty

Mangaluru, Dec 30: Entrepreneur and social worker T M Shaheed, who hails from coastal Karnataka’s Sullia taluk, has been appointed as one of the Secretaries of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC). A release issued here stated that All India Congress Committee chairperson Rahul Gandhi nominated Mr Shaheed as the secretary of the KPCC following the recommendations by KPCC chief G

Mangaluru, Dec 30: Vidya Dinker, activist and convener of the Citizens Forum For Mangalore Development, has sought Karnataka Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy’s immediate intervention to prevent saffron outfits from spreading communal hatred and lies in the name of Love Jihad. Love Jihad is a term that is widely used by rightwing outfits like Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal to create an

The chief minister Siddaramaiah-led Karnataka government has decided to make Kannada mandatory from Class 1 from academic year 2018-19. The rule will be applied to all schools in Karnataka, including private, linguistic minority, and Central board schools. Minister for Primary and Secondary Education Tanveer Sait, who made the announcement on Friday in Bengaluru, said children would start learning

Bharatiya Janata Party supremo Amit Shah, who is arriving in Bengaluru on a one-day visit on Sunday, is expected to chalk out the agenda for the party for the next two months in the poll-bound Karnataka. A prominent leader in the BJP said that Mr. Shah would decide on the nature of programmes, including campaigns and conventions to be taken up by the party. He will also review the progress

Udupi, Dec 30: A group of miscreants, suspected to be activists of a saffron group, waylaid a vehicle and thrashed two persons at Thombattu village in Kundapur taluk of Udupi district for transporting cows. The vigilantism occurred on Thursday. The injured Manjunath and Samiullah have been admitted to a hospital for treatment. According to the jurisdictional Amasebail police, Manjunath, Jagadish

Udupi, Dec 30: A high school student who went to play into the sea at Malpe beach in Udupi district, drowned, when he was carried by waves on Friday. The deceased has been identified as Manjunath A.K., a student of class 9 from Halivan village in Davangere district. According to the Malpe police, 54 students from Government High School, Halivan village, Harihara taluk, Davangere district, had come