Karnataka

Singapore, Sept 30: Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has praised the significant contribution of the Malayalee community in the country’s development, saying they have shown how to turn diversity into strength. Singapore’s 26,000 strong Malayalee community is largely descendants of migrants from Kerala in early 1900s. Speaking at a gala dinner to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the

King Salman’s recent decree that grants driving licenses to women in Saudi Arabia may snuff out the livelihoods of tens of thousands of NRI ‘house drivers,’ including those from Karnataka and Kerala. The royal order will officially come into force from Shawwal 10, 1439, corresponding to June 24, 2018. Even though the international media hailed the decree as a great “social reform”, for the Saudi

Puttur, Sep 30: Hindu Jagaran Vedike leader Jagadish Karanth, who was arrested by the police almost two weeks after delivering a provocative speech in Puttur, was released within a few hours as a local magistrate granted him interim bail in the wee hours of Saturday. Karanth, who evaded arrest for one week, was picked up by the sleuths of Dakshina Kannada district police from an Airport in

New Delhi, Sept 30: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat alleged on Saturday that the state governments of West Bengal and Kerala are "on the side of jihadi elements that are perpetrating the violence" there. Bhagwat further said that Rohingya Muslim refugees in India are a threat to the country's security. The RSS chief even weighed in on cow protection, saying laws shouldn't be broken towards this goal. Many

Mangaluru, Sept 30: Lifeguards of Panambur Beach Tourism Development Project (PBTDP) managed to rescue six youths from drowning in two separate incidents on Friday. Both these rescue exercise happened in a span of a little over 90-minutes starting 4pm, Yathish Baikampady, CEO of the project said. While the first group was from Vittal near Bantwal, the second was a group of tourists from Bengaluru

Mangaluru, Sep 30: Tension prevailed for a few hours on Friday night at Kudroli in Mangaluru after unidentified miscreants attacked a Muslim cleric without any provocation. Sakib Salim Umari (32), the imam of Tipu Sultan Mosque was admitted to Government Wenlock Hospital after the attack. The incident took place when Umari was returning home after leading Isha prayers at the mosque. The miscreants

Bengaluru, Sept 30: Manipal University has decided to implement the digital examination system on a large scale. The university had introduced the digital examination system two years ago and there was overwhelming response from students. Under the digital examination system, the university has given electronic tablets to students which are specially designed devices with special surface for a

Bengaluru, Sept 29: A youth was arrested after his speeding Mercedes Benz car hit a Maruti Omni van, injuring six people, including three children. The suspect has been identified as Vishnu Naidu (27), a resident of Jayanagar I Block. He is the grandson of businessman and former MP from Chittor, the late D K Audikesavulu. The police found 110 gram of marijuana in his car and a separate case has

New Delhi, Sept 29: Online abuse heaped on a dead Gauri Lankesh lays bare the "hostile atmosphere" people are facing today on social media where an army of trolls is either "intimidating dissenters" or fomenting tension, according to leading journalists. Shocked at the gunning down of the 55-year-old journalist -activist, an outspoken critic of Hindutva politics, many journalists and activists

Bengaluru, Sept 29: Father Tom Uzhunnalil, who was freed after being kept in captivity suspectedly by the ISIS for 18 months in strife-torn Yemen, today reached Bengaluru, where he met priests of his religious order. "I thank God almighty. I thank everybody in the name of Jesus," Uzhunnalil, who had met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj yesterday, told