Karnataka

Bengaluru, Dec 16: The ‘sanskari’ Kannadigas have managed to exert enough pressure on the state government to deny permission to Bollywood actor Sunny Leone to perform at a New Year's Eve show in Bengaluru. However, they have not stopped Googling images and videos of the former porn star! "We have denied permission for Sunny Leone’s show fearing law and order problems in the wake of protests by

Wishing Rahul Gandhi for taking new responsibility in the Congress party, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has said that Rahul Gandhi will become India’s future leader as he had already proved during the Gujarat election campaign by attracting the younger generation widely. He was talking with presspersons in Raichur on Saturday before leaving for Kalaburagi district to participate in the Sadhana

Former chief minister and Karnataka state unit president of Janata Dal (Secular) H D Kumaraswamy has clarified that his son Nikhil Kumaraswamy would not enter politics. Speaking to reporters after his birthday celebrations, Kumaraswamy categorically denied rumours that another grandson of former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda would enter politics ahead of next assembly polls. Rumours were doing

Mangaluru, Dec 16: The Mangaluru Customs Commissionerate has been granted the Service Quality Management Systems (SQMS) Certification Licence No SQ/L-6000272 dated 14-11-2017 for IS 15700: 2005 by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). The licence has been granted to the Headquarters office at New Custom House, Panambur, Mangaluru and all other formations viz. Docks office (including Passenger

The Janata Dal (Secular) has seconded Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s demand for holding the 2018 Karnataka Assembly polls using ballot papers amidst fears of saffronisation of Electronic Voting Machines. In last two years many cases of EVM tempering have come to light across the country. In recently held Uttar Pradesh local body polls too several complaints had surfaced about EVMs voting only for

Bengaluru Dec 16: Union Minister Anant Kumar Hegde, who had called Karnataka Home Minister R Ramalinga Reddy on a Facebook post recent, has received a strongly worded reply from the latter. In his Facebook post, Reddy stated that Hegde is "unfit to even become an MP leave alone a minister." Further, Reddy states that those who disrupt peace in society are terrorists and that Hegde should learn to

Udupi, Dec 16: The state government has released Rs 1 crore to the Udupi City Municipal Council (CMC) for closing potholes and repairing roads for the forthcoming Paryaya festival, said district in-charge minister Pramod Madhwaraj. He was chairing a preparatory meeting for the festival at the District Offices Complex, here. Heads of government departments and office bearers of the Paryaya

Hosapete, Dec 16: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has accused the BJP of fomenting law and order problem in the state out of "desperation over its impending defeat" in the upcoming Assembly polls. "In the last Assembly election, Congress won three seats while Independents secured two and the BJP managed to win only one seat in Uttara Kannada district. This time, the BJP is attempting to polarise

Bengaluru Dec 16: A social activist has lodged a complaint against Mysore-Kodagu BJP MP Pratap Simha for "uploading videos with provoking statements" in social media. A Anand has filed the complaint with the cyber crime police seeking action against Simha for disturbing social harmony in the state and also issuing statements against serving police officers and senior officials. He has sought

Mangaluru, Dec 16: Surgeons from city based A J Hospital and Research Centre have performed microvascular surgery to rejoin lower limbs of a two-year-old child, who lost it following a train accident in April. Following the surgery and implant removal procedure, the child is now walking. Talking to reporters here on Friday, Centre’s Medical Director and Transplant Surgeon K. Prashanth Marla said