Karnataka

Bengaluru, Dec 18: The outcome of the Gujarat elections will have no effect on Karnataka's own 2018 Assembly elections said Chief Minister Siddaramaiah here on Monday. Speaking to reporters here in Ballari, he said because 18 Congress MLAs and opposition leaders like Shankar Singh Vaghela have joined BJP, Congress had suffered a setback in Gujarat polls. "But Congress has won more seats compared

Mangaluru, Dec 18: Police have stepped up security measures in the coastal city ahead of the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The PM will be staying in Mangaluru Monday knighting and leaving for Lakshadweep on Tuesday morning. According to BJP district president Sanjeev Matanduru, the PM will be arriving by a special flight at the Mangaluru International Airport at around 11 p.m. He will

In what can be termed as a major blow to Bharatiya Janta Party, young Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani, who had contested the Gujarat Assembly polls from Vadgam constituency as an independent candidate, has emerged victorious. According to reports Mevani defeated BJP’s Vijay Chakravarti by a huge margin of 18,150 votes in the constituency reserved for Scheduled Caste candidate. Congress party had

Karwar, Dec 18: The BJP has dropped plans to hold a protest rally against the death of Paresh Mesta, at Honnavar in Uttara Kannada district on Monday. As the town was returning to normality after over a week of communal tension, the scheduled BJP rally was expected to lead to another showdown between BJP and the police, who have banned all protests and rallies in the district till December 20. A

Bengaluru, Dec 18: Karnataka governor Vajubhai Vala has urged the people of Tulu Nadu to promote Kambala, a traditional buffalo race and fight legally to defend it. Speaking after inaugurating Tulu Literature Festival in the city on Sunday, he said that Kambala symbolises gallantry. "Those with guts participate in Kambala. Man competes with buffaloes in 400 metres, 800 metres and one-kilometre

Honnavar, Dec 18: The “attack” on a schoolgirl, which led to communal tension in the town last week in Honnavar taluk of Uttara Kannada district, has taken a new twist with the girl confessing that no one had attacked her and, injuries on her hand were self-inflicted. On December 14, Kavya Chandrashekar Naika, a class IX student and a resident of Magodu Kodlagadde village, had claimed that

Belagavi, Dec 18: A leader of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) kicked up a controversy on Sunday by making a provocative speech in Belagavi. Ramachandra Yedake, Belagavi RSS Boudhik Vibagh Pramukh, called upon the Hindu youth to “get ready to respond to murders with murders.” He was speaking at a protest rally organised by some Hindu organisations to condemn what they called “the killing of

Belagavi, Dec 12: The Hukkeri police have registered a case against Umesh Katti, BJP MLA, under provisions of the SC, ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. This was following a complaint by Dalit activist Sunil Kallappa Khatedar of Avargol village in Hukkeri taluk. Dalit organisations staged a protest in Belagavi, Sankeshwar, Gokak and Hukkeri seeking action against the MLA on Sunday. The MLA

Bengaluru, Dec 17: Congress is setting fire on various issues in the country, according to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh. Addressing a public meeting held in Bengaluru as part of Bharatiya Janata Party’s state-wide Parivarthana rally on Sunday, he said that it was BJP which was trying to douse the fire and not the other way round. “We have been dousing fire set by the Congress in the country,”

Mangaluru, Dec 17: An advocate has shot himself dead with a pistol at Sampaje village in Madikeri taluk of Kodagu district under mysterious circumstances. The deceased has been identified as Devicharan (39), son of film producer and writer Deviprasad. Devicharan resorted to the extreme step when he was alone at the house last night, sources said. He is survived by his wife and two children. A case