Karnataka

Bengaluru, Oct 23: Two auto-rickshaw drivers have been arrested for dropping a cockroach in the food served at Indira Canteen to seek "publicity". Hemanth and Devaraj, along with two others, went to have food at Indira Canteen in Kamakshipalya on Friday and created a ruckus when they found a cockroach in their meal, the police said. They then threatened people serving food, besides urging others

Bengaluru, Oct 23: Karnataka Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy today denied reports of downsizing the SIT probing the killing of journalist Gauri Lankesh and said "vested interests" were spreading "misinformation". "All the 121 members ... including whom we had deputed are part of the SIT that is probing the case... not even one person has been moved out of it," he told PTI. Lankesh, known to be an

Chitradurga, Oct 23: Former prime minister H D Deve Gowda on Monday advised the government to focus on providing succour to farmers in distress instead of wasting time by raking up a controversy over celebrating Tipu Jayanti. He was speaking to reporters after visiting agriculture fields affected by pests at Bharamasagara in the taluk. Gowda said he would take up the issue of farmers with Prime

Amidst the Bharatiya Janata Party’s unprecedented hate campaign against the Mysuru Kingdom’s legendary ruler Tipu Sultan, the Congress party members have started circulating photographs of senior BJP leaders wearing the replicas of martyred king’s headgear. The photos of two former chief ministers from BJP, B S Yeddyurappa and Jagadish Shetter, former ministers R Ashok, C P Yogeshwar among others

Bengaluru, Oct 23: Masjid-e-Askari, a famous Shia mosque located near Johnson Market in Bengaluru, not only allowed demolition of its compound wall to facilitate the widening of Hosur Road but also handed over 1000 sq ft of its land to the BBMP as per request. Mir Ali Jawad, the president of the Masjid-E-Askari and Shia Graveyard Managing Committee, said: "The compound wall of the mosque was

Bengaluru, Oct 23: Are opposition parties using cockroach and other insects as weapons to defame Chief Minister Siddaramaiah-led Karnataka government's favourite project, Indira Canteen? A CCTV camera has captured the scene of a few miscreants apparently putting insects into the food before creating ruckus at an Indira Canteen located in Gottigere area of the Bengaluru city. The Bruhat Bengaluru

Kollam, Oct 23: A 15-year-old girl, who had jumped off the third floor of her school building in Kollam district of Kerala over alleged harassment on Friday, died at a private hospital on Monday. The girl, a class 10 student of the ICSE school Trinity Lyceum, jumped from the building after her teachers allegedly scolded her. The girl had objected to her younger sibling, studying in the same school

Managluru, Oct 23: Five persons who had allegedly robbed several people on National Highway 66 between Mangaluru and Kasaragod were arrested by police on Sunday. The arrested have been identified as Ravikumar, 24; Khaleel K, 27; Rajesh, 30; Mohammed Azeem, 23; and Javed Abbas, 24, all residents of Kunjathooru, Manjeshwar. According to the police, the accused used to waylay people at a secluded

Bengaluru, Oct 23: In a bid to counter the BJP’s political yatra, the state Congress is keen on holding AICC Vice President Rahul Gandhi’s public rally in Chikkamagaluru on November 19 and his other programmes in Karnataka on a grand scale. The rally is being held to mark the birth centenary of the former prime minister, the late Indira Gandhi. On November 20, Rahul is scheduled to take part in a

Bengaluru, Oct 23: Six BJP workers on three motorcycles from each of the 27,000 polling booths in southern Karnataka will arrive at Bangalore International Exhibition Centre (BIEC) grounds here, to be present at the launch of the party’s Nava Karnataka Nirmana Parivarthan Yatra on November 2. Speaking to reporters after participating in the Bhoomi Pooja at the grounds near BIEC from where the