Karnataka

Hubballi, Nov 9: Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday said that several BJP leaders in state were in touch with Congress leaders and were willing to join the party. He was replying to queries of presspersons during a stopover at Hubballi Airport on the way to Bagalkot. He said that he was not ready to welcome politicians with RSS mindset to the Congress. “We are ready to accommodate

Mangaluru, Nov 9: Most Rev Dr Aloysius Paul D’Souza, Bishop of Mangaluru, inaugurated ‘Pavitraatama Abhishelotsva 2017’ a State level convention on the occasion of Golden Jubilee of Charismatic Renewal in the Catholic Church by lighting the lamp. A flag containing the logo of the Jubilee was hoisted on the occasion. As part of the inaugural programme seven doves (the symbol of seven gifts of the

Bengaluru, Nov 9: A 60-year-old passenger was held by security personnel at the Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) in Bengaluru recently while boarding a Pune-bound flight with four unlicensed bullets of .22 rifle and two empty cartridges. Bade Babana Rao (60), a residentof Pune, had arrived in Bengaluru by train to visit his daughter in Indiranagar and was going back by a Spicejet flight

Hubballi, Nov 9: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of trying to blackmail and pressurize Congress stalwart DK Shivakumar to join the saffron party. Speaking to presspersons during a stopover at Hubballi airport on the way to Bagalkot, Mr. Siddramaiah said that the IT raids on the Energy Minister and his family and friends were Centre’s ugly tactics to

Dubai, Nov 9: The old students of the well-known Sri Bhuvanendra College (SBC), Karkala joined together in a unique event held recently in Dubai. The college re-unions provide a unique opportunity for reuniting with friends of yester yearsand a chance to relive some of the messy fun of college days. It was really an excitement when this re-unionhappened and that too in a foreign destination, along

Bengaluru, Nov 9: “Education is not a commodity but a pious service rendered to humanity," a city consumer court told a Bengaluru school, asking it to pay Rs 51,000 to a parent who had pulled his daughter out of the school's kindergarten after paying an admission fee of Rs 55,000. It all began after Brookefield resident Thejas John Philipose decided to withdraw a kindergarten admission he had

Abu Dhabi, Nov 9: Hindus are urging prestigious about £1bn museum Louvre Abu Dhabi (LAD) unveiled by French President Emmanuel Macron on November 8 to enrich its collection of Hindu artifacts. Welcoming the reported display of 10th century dancing Shiva statue at LAD, and a painting of Krishna with gopis in its collection; Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, called it

Mangaluru, Nov 9: The police are making elaborate arrangements to maintain law and order in Dakshina Kannada, as the State government sponsored Tipu Jayanti and Opposition BJP’s Parivartana Yatra are coinciding in this coastal district on Friday. Security has been beefed up in Mangaluru city and other parts of the district, which had witnessed a series of untoward incidents and communal clashes

Mangaluru, Nov 9: The police have urged the people in the coastal city to help them catch a 26-year-old woman, who allegedly abducted a 5-year-old girl from Gujarat. Kinjal(5) daughter of a social activist in Gujarat’s Maninagar was allegedly kidnapped by her maid Rekha alias Shahnaz on October 14 from her residence. According to police, the mobile phone of the alleged abductor was traced to

Mangaluru, Nov 9: Continuing crackdown on drug peddlers, users and growers, the city police have arrested three more persons in separate incidents. Joshwa D’Souza (18), an engineering student and resident of Munoor village near Mangaluru was arrested by a team of the Economic and Narcotic Crime sleuths for cultivating cannabis. Acting on a tip off the team headed by Inspector Mohammed Sharief