Karnataka

New Delhi, Nov 5: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi today asked the Narendra Modi government to stop delivering "hollow" speeches and quit if it was unable to stop prices from rising and give jobs to the people. Gandhi, whose Twitter feed has become more active of late, posted on the micro-blogging site: "Mehngi gas, mehnga ration, band karo khokhla bhashan, daam bandho, kaam do, varna khali

Bengaluru Nov 5: Janata Dal (S) is appeared to have decided to thwart the attempts of Karnataka government to hit back at the BJP using a legislative committee looking into irregularities in purchase of power since 2005. JD(S) state president H D Kumaraswamy on Saturday said he would submit a dissent note to the House committee in a day or two. He also said that he will neither attend the final

Sharjah, Nov 5: Hundreds of non-resident Kannadigas from across United Arab Emirates have been visiting the outlet of Shanthi Prakashana, a Karnataka based publishing, in Sharjah international book fair which got underway on November 1. The fair will conclude on November 11. “Shanthi Prakashana is the one and only kannada publisher out of 1650 publishers from around the world participating in this

Actor Kamal Haasan has hit back at the Hindu Mahasabha leader’s open call for his murder after he said that Hindu terror exists in the country. Haasan's article on a Tamil magazine had claimed that "extremism has spread into the Hindu right-wing camp as well". "If we question them, they call us anti-nationals and want us jailed. Now since there is no space in jails they want to shoot us and kill

Mangaluru, Nov 5: A woman in Mangaluru taluk was left poorer by Rs 32 lakhs as she was duped by an online fraud racket. The woman, a resident of Bajpe in Mangaluru taluk, was initially made to believe that she won a huge cash prize. Then the fraudsters extracted money from her in the name of customs duty. According to police, the woman had received an email in June which stated that she won 4,85

The Karnataka government is considering to attach properties of 77 companies that have illegally exported iron ore from the New Mangaluru and Karwar ports without permits. The Cabinet sub-committee set up to oversee implementation of the Lokayukta report on illegal mining on Saturday decided to recommend to the Cabinet to attach properties of these firms under section 25 of the Mines and Minerals

Riyadh, Nov 5: At least 11 princes, four sitting ministers and ‘tens’ of former ministers have been arrested on orders of the new anti-corruption supreme committee headed by Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman on Saturday evening, according to sources. The committee announced that it is reopening the file of the 2009 Jeddah floods and investigating the coronavirus issue also known as the Middle East

Lucknow, Nov 4: A senior leader of a Hindu outfit, the Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha (ABHM), on Friday slammed veteran Tamil actor Kamal Haasan for his “Hindu terror” remarks and said people like him should be “shot dead”. Referring to the statement made by Mr. Haasan on Thursday in a column for a weekly magazine, ABHM leader Pt. Ashok Sharma said “these people accuse the followers of Hinduism

Mangaluru, Nov 4: Young girls and women should learn martial arts such as Karate which would not only protect them from stalkers but also make them self-confident, said Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah. He was speaking after inaugurating a two-day Indian Karate Championship 2017 organised by Self Defence School of Indian Karate Mangalore Dojo here on Saturday. Though he does not know much

Mangaluru, Nov 4: Sleuths of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) on Friday recovered 10 gold bars of foreign origin valued at Rs 34.17 lakh from the toilets located next to the immigration area of Mangaluru International Airport (MIA). The lead that DRI sleuths got indicated that a passenger on board the Spicejet Flight No.SG60 from Dubai had dropped the gold at the toilet for local