Karnataka

Mumbai, Dec 29: A special NIA court, while ordering that Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, Lt Col Prasad Purohit and other accused in the 2008 Malegaon bomb blast case will stand trial on terror charges, has said it was accepting the agency's contention that they wanted to establish a "Hindu Rashtra" and the blast was a step towards achieving this goal. Special Judge S D Tekale in the 130-page order

Udupi, Dec 29: Vishwesha Tirtha Swami, the chief pontiff of Paryaya Pejawar Mutt, who is vacating the Paryaya Peeth soon, has made it clear that he would not ascend the Paryaya Peetha for the sixth time as he would be 100 years old then. Paryaya Peetha is the rotating presidency of the eight mutts of Udupi’s Krishna temple. During two year Paryaya term, the chief pontiff of the one of the eight

Google dedicated its doodle to renowned 20th century Kannada poet, novelist, thinker, philosopher and humanist Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa aka Kuvempu to mark his 113th birth anniversary on Friday. According to Google's blog, "known more famously by his pen name Kuvempu, he is considered one of the greatest Kannada writers of his time. The Kannada language is spoken mainly in Kuvempu's home state

Mangaluru, Dec 29: Former chief minister HD Kumaraswamy, who is trying to strengthen Janata Dal (Secular) in coastal Karnataka ahead of 2018 assembly polls, has said that his party would organise a rally in Nehru Maidan on January 9 and would highlight how communalism has hit the development of the coastal belt. Speaking to reporters, the JD(S) state president claimed that the coastal belt

Mangaluru, Dec 29: The Central Crime Branch of Mangaluru City Police has arrested two associates of notorious underworld operative Khali Yogish for their alleged involvement in three cases of firing reported in the city limits this month. The arrested has been identified as Manoj Kunder (35), a native of Mulki and Chandrashekar (32) from Pakshigere. Police Commissioner T.R. Suresh said that the

New Delhi, Dec 29: Railway Minister Piyush Goyal called on former prime minister H D Deve Gowda at his residence to discuss pending railway projects in Karnataka. When Gowda sought an appointment with Goyal to discuss railway projects a couple of days ago, Goyal reportedly conveyed to him that he would come to Gowda's residence, instead of the former prime minister coming to his office at Rail

Mysuru, Dec 29: George Alfred James, Bhagawan Adinatha Professor of Jain Studies, University of North Texas, the USA, an expert in South Asian religions, says the term 'secularism' has been overused and is being misused. For co-existence of various religions in India, 'pluralism' would be the apt term, Prof James said. He was on a visit to Shravanabelagola, in Hassan district, in view of the

Mangaluru, Dec 28: The Mangaluru South Police have arrested six youths in connection with the murder of 21-year-old Melrick Antony D’Souza in Valencia on December 25. The police gave the names of the arrested persons as Nishak Poojary (28), Vinesh Kumar (30), Sachin Shetty (22), Ganesh Kulal (34), Praveen Poojary (42) and Sandeep Shetty (33). The police said that the arrested persons were said to

The Lok Sabha on Thursday passed the politically significant talaq Bill making the extremely rare practices of “instant triple talaq” and social media talaq illegal with up to three years in jail for the husband. The Bill was passed after the House rejected a string of amendments moved by various Opposition members. MPs from the RJD, AIMIM, BJD, AIADMK and All India Muslim League opposed the Bill

New Delhi, Dec 28: Facebook has asserted it has no plans of "integration or authentication with Aadhaar" and is not linking the social media accounts to the 12-digit biometric identifier. The clarification came in response to reports that indicated that Facebook was running a test, where it requested for people's Aadhaar information when they signed up for a Facebook account. Facebook clarified