Karnataka

Bengaluru, Sep 11: BJP state president B S Yeddyurappa on Monday declined to comment on Siddaganga Mutt seer Shivakumara swami purportedly favouring a separate religious status to the Lingayat faith. “I will not comment on this. There will be clarity on the issue in a couple of days,” Yeddyurappa, himself a Lingayat, told reporters. The demand for a separate religious status for the Lingayat faith

Bengaluru, Sep 11: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Monday urged Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to give preference to those who have studied Kannada as a language up to SSLC in the banking recruitment examination. Siddaramaiah, in a letter, urged Jaitley to direct Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) to bring in amendments to its rules for recruiting bank officers and office

Bengaluru, Sept 12: The Karnataka BJP Yuva Morcha on Monday sent a legal notice to renowned historian Ramachandra Guha for alleging that its ideological mentor, the RSS, and the party had a role in the murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh. In the legal notice, the Yuva Morcha demanded Guha issue an unconditional apology in the next three days, and also refrain from making such comments. Failure to

Bengaluru, Sep 12: The BJP on Monday announced a statewide agitation demanding the resignation of Bengaluru Development Minister K J George, in the wake of Supreme Court ordering a CBI probe into the death of DySP M K Ganapathy. “On September 16, all of the party’s legislators and parliamentarians will stage a satyagraha in Bengaluru and other district centres. Our fight will continue till George

Mangaluru, Sept 11: Navneet Shetty and Niranjan Bhat, the two of the five arrested in connection with the murder of Bhaskar Shetty, an NRI businessman from Udupi, were allegedly assaulted by about 10 inmates of Mangaluru District Prison on Monday. According to the Barke Police, some inmates were enraged with Navneet Shetty and Bhat staring at them around noon in the “B” block of the prison. About

Chennai, Sept 11: She was playing her favourite game on her uncle’s mobile phone when a team of surgeons were removing a tumour from the most sensitive part of her brain at a hospital in Chennai recently. By staying awake, talking and moving her limbs, 10-year-old Nandini gave her doctors the confidence that they were on the right track. The Class V student, who is also a Bharatanatyam dancer, was

Geneva, Sept 11: United Nations human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein today flayed any attempts by India to deport Rohingyas to Myanmar when the ethnic minority community is facing violence in their country. Speaking at the opening of a Human Rights Council session here, Zeid also referred to the killing of activist-journalist Gauri Lankesh, observing that she "tirelessly addressed the

New Delhi, Sep 11: World's biggest beer brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev is installing water ATMs in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh in areas that do not have access to safe and clean drinking water. Its Indian subsidiary headquartered in Bengaluru has tied up with an NGO Jaldhaara Foundation for this purpose. One ATM kiosk has already been set up next to its brewery in Mysore. "We have put up a recyling

Kasaragod, Sept 11: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has asked the Kerala Police for the details of conversion of people from different faiths to Islam at Therbiyathul Islam Sabha in Kozhikode, a religious centre authorized by the Kerala government. In a status report filed before the Supreme Court, the NIA said it had sought information on the activities of the Kozhikode-based organisation

Kochi, Sep 11: A Sangh Parivar outfit leader was today booked for allegedly making a hate speech at a public function near here on Friday. Addressing a function organised by the "Hindu Aikyavedi" at North Paravur, the outfit's Kerala president K P Sasikala had allegedly urged secular writers to conduct "Mrityunjaya Homam" at Lord Shiva temples to save them from meeting a fate similar to that of