Karnataka

Chikkamagaluru, Dec 3: Incidents of stone pelting, assault and vandalism were reported from Chikkamagaluron Sunday when hundreds of saffron activists wearing Dattamala mala, visited Inam Dattatreya Peeta atBababudangiri to have the darshan of the Datta Paduke on the occasion of Datta Jayanti. Tension prevailed for some time at the Datta Peeta as a few bhakts jumped into the restricted area and

Mangaluru, Dec 3: Senior Congress leader and former Karnataka chief minister Veerappa Moily today claimed Prime Minister Narendra Modi has failed on the foreign diplomacy front though he had been touring countries frequently. Addressing reporters here, he said Modi "is only busy with frequent foreign tours. He cannot stop cross-border terrorism from Pakistan. China is exporting its goods to India

Mangaluru, Dec 3: In a tragic incident, an Indian-origin American woman was mauled to death by a tiger shark while she was scuba diving in the Pacific Ocean off an island in the Republic of Costa Rica recently. The deceased has been identified as Rohina Bhandari (49), a private equity director from New York City. She hailed from India’s Mangaluru city. She is the granddaughter of I G Balakrishna

Tumakruru, Dec 3: Dozens of journalists on Sunday staged a protest at the Town Hall Circle in Karnataka’s Tumakuru condemning the attack on a reporter of a private news channel by the leaders of Bharatiya Janata Party. The protesters urged the state government to take necessary steps to arrest the BJP’s Tumakuru district general secretary Ravishankar alias Hebbakka Ravi and councillor of Tumakuru

Chikkamagaluru, Dec 3: A senior police officer associated with the State Intelligence Wing died of a heart attack at Narasimharajapura in Chikkkamagalur on Friday while on duty. He was part of the chief minister's security cover since Thursday. Deputy Superintendent of police Sheik Hussein (57) collapsed soon after the CM’s chopper took off from the helipad in Chikkamagalur around 10.30am. Doctors

Moodbidri, Dec 3: “Kasargod is home for numerous language speaking communities indeed, but the district is connected to Karnataka through umbilical cord. The purely Kannada speaking areas of Kasargod must be annexed to Karnataka,” said the faculty of SDM Law College Murulidhara Ballukkuraya. He was delivering a discourse on the problems faced by the Kannada speaking minorities of Kasargod district

Mysuru, Dec 3: Pratap Simha, the Karnataka chief of BJP Yuva Morcha, who was asked by the party supremo Amit Shah to hold more and more anti-government protests in the state, on Saturday courted arrested along with around 100 saffron activists at Hunsur in Mysuru district for violating prohibitory orders. The Mysuru district police has permitted the organisers of the Hanuma Jayanthi in Hunsur to

Mangaluru, Dec 3: The fury of Cyclone Ockhi, that left a trail of destruction in neighbouring Kerala, has threatened the fishermen and people living the coastal areas of Dakshina Kannada district as the raging sea continued to batter the region on Sunday. The retaining wall built by the government to prevent sea erosion at Peribail, near Uchila, on the outskirts of Mangluru city was washed away on

The timely clarification by local police brought the situation under control in Karnataka’s Belagavi after a Bharatiya Janata Party leader released a fake video clip purportedly showing some Congress members belonging to Muslim community “dancing to the tune of the Pakistani national anthem” during the Eid Milad-un-Nabi celebrations. It was Raju Topannanavar, BJP’s general secretary for Mahanagara

Mangaluru, Dec 3: ‘My Job’ an Android App developed by two teenagers as part of ‘vote for employment’ was launched at a press conference jointly organized by the local unit of Solidarity Youth Movement and Karnataka for Employment in the city on Saturday. Speaking on the occasion, Mutthu Raju, Organizer, Karnataka for Employment, Bengaluru, said that though unemployment has been a major challenge