Karnataka

Bengaluru, Sept 28: Days after chief minister Siddaramaiah sought a second term for himself, Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president G Parameshwara on Wednesday said the Congress legislature party will elect the next chief minister if the party comes back to power in the 2018 Assembly election. “It is the legislature party that elects the chief minister. There is no tradition in the

Bengaluru, Sept 28: After much ado, the State Cabinet on Wednesday approved a diluted anti-superstition bill that seeks to ban 16 practices, including human torture in the name of rituals and creating panic by threatening to invoke ghosts. The Karnataka Prevention and Eradication of Inhuman Evil Practices and Black Magic Bill, 2017 is a watered down version of the Karnataka Prevention of

Mangaluru Sep 27: Dubbing Rohingya Muslim refugees in India as “terrorists”, Vishwa Hindu Parishat (VHP) has urged the government of India not to make further delay to deport them back to Myanmar. Addressing a media conference here on Wednesday VHP leader Jagadish Shenava, said that Rohingyas that have taken refuge in various parts of India should be treated as illegal immigrants and not as

The pictures and video clippings of minor Hindu girls participating in a ritual wherein they are forced stay bare-chested for a fortnight at Madurai’s Yezhaikatha Amman temple have sparked outrage on social media. According to the temple’s tradition, the priest selected the seven girls between ages of 10 and 14 and ‘offered’ them to the deity for a fortnight beginning the last Tuesday in the Tamil

Kochi, Sept 27: The prosecution in the actress abduction case on Wednesday informed the Kerala High Court that arrested Malayalam actor Dileep had offered Rs 3 crore for abduction of the actress Bhavana in February this year. The prosecution informed that Dileep offered Pulsar Suni Rs 1.50 crore for carrying out the abduction, and in case he gets caught in the act by the police, the compensation

Mysuru, Sept 27: Karnataka government is much ahead of other states in fulfilling the aspirations of the Constitution and in promoting the welfare of people, according to the High Court Chief Justice Subhro Kamal Mukherjee. He was delivering the inaugural address during the national seminar on ‘Constitution-Democracy-Equality: Karnataka A Role Model’, held as part of the Dasara celebrations at the

Mangaluru, Sept 27: The coastal town will witness a silent protest march led by its large student community on Thursday, September 28. The ‘Freedom and Fraternity’ March will involve student marchers who want to draw attention to the fact that both those qualities are essential in any healthy society. The Freedom and Fraternity March is an initiative by various student bodies and like-minded

Thiruvananthapuram, Sept 27: A total of 149 Indians serving prison terms for minor and financial offences in Sharjah will be released following the amnesty declared here by the Emirate's visiting ruler Sultan Bin Mohammed Al- Quasimi. The announcement came in response to a request by Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan seeking the release of Keralites who had completed three years of their jail

Mangaluru, Sept 27: The Dakshina Kannada district administration has initiated externment proceedings against two persons, whose street-fighting had snowballed into a communal tension in Bantwal taluk in June. Acting on a report from superintendent of police C H Sudheer Kumar Reddy, the deputy commissioner and district magistrate K G Jagadeesha has issued notices to Rathnakar Shetty and Ibrahim

Mangaluru, Sept 27: Accepting the offer by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to join hands with the government in the ‘Swachhata Hi Seva’ movement, renowned saxophonist Kadri Gopalnath has decided to get two toilets built for a 98-year-old government primary school at Bengre here. The Prime Minister has, through a letter on September 9 to the artiste, invited him to lend support to the “Swachhata Hi