Karnataka

Bengaluru, Sept 14: JD(S) state president H D Kumaraswamy on Wednesday demanded that Water Resources Minister M B Patil issue a public apology for dragging the Siddaganga Mutt into the separate Lingayat religion controversy. “It is unforgivable that Patil used the name of Shivakumara Swamiji on this issue. I don’t know if I should call it an unmatched achievement,” Kumaraswamy said. “Shivakumara

Mysuru, Sept 14: The Third Additional District and Sessions Court on Wednesday made Sunil Bose, son of Minister for Public Works H C Mahadevappa, an accused in the case of aiding and abetting Mines and Geology Department officials to take bribe in an illegal sand transportation case. The court also ordered Bose, second accused, to be present before it on September 26. In 2016, the sessions court

Chintamani, Sept 14: A 27-year-old engineer who was released on bail in a bribery case, committed suicide by setting himself on fire at Vangimalu village of Chintamani taluk on Tuesday night. The deceased has been identified as Srinath Reddy, who was working as a junior engineer on contract basis under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. Police said that he was arrested

Kozhikode, Sept 13: Popular Front of India chairman E Aboobacker has said that the latest moves as reported in a section of media to stifle the activities of Popular Front of India (PFI) is anti-democratic and that the organisation is determined to resist such attempts through lawful means. Addressing a media conference along with PFI Kerala state president Nasarudheen Elamaram here on Wednesday

Bengaluru, Sept 13: The Karnataka government today dismissed reports of "preferential treatment" was being given to AIADMK leader V K Sasikala at the central jail here and said she was being treated like any other ordinary prisoner. "There is no truth in reports suggesting that Sasikala and (her relative) Elavarasi have been given preferential treatment at the prison. I had been there yesterday

Kundapur, Sept 13: A group of miscreants, most of them activists of Hindu Jagrana Vedike (HJV), on Monday harassed and threatened a group of five college students at Koteshwar village near Kundapur in Udupi district. According to the Kundapur police, two male and three female students of a college from Udupi were on a trip to Byndoor, Trasi and Marvanthe on Monday. Of the three girls, one belonged

Karwar, Sept 13: At least nine people including three children were killed and three others were injured when their multi-utility vehicle rammed into a truck in the Arabail Ghat region of Yellapur taluk in Uttara Kannada district on Wednesday morning. The accident occurred on the Ankola-Gooty National Highway 63 when the family was returning from a trip to Kukke Subramanya. All the victims are

Mangaluru, Sept 13: Police in Sullia taluk of Dakshina Kannada have arrested a saffron activist for trying to incite communal hatred by allegedly posting derogatory remarks against Christianity on social media. The accused has been identified as Akshay Bolimajal. According to sources, he posted derogatory comments against Jesus Christ and Mother Theresa. The action followed a complaint to

Bengaluru, Sept 13: In a shocking incident, a 4-year-old student in the LKG of a private school at Dasarahalli in Bengaluru was sexually assaulted allegedly by a security guard on Tuesday. The incident came to light when the child returned home from school in the afternoon and complained of feeling sick. The worried parents rushed her to a near-by clinic and later to M.S. Ramaiah Hospital where

Bengaluru, Sept 13: Minister for Bengaluru Development K.J. George has said that there was no question of resigning. He said he will wait till the CBI submits its report to the apex court. Addressing presspersons on Tuesday, the Minister wondered whether the BJP wants to know the truth behind Mangaluru DySP M K Ganapathy’s death or his (George’s) resignation. On allegations of the CID destroying