Karnataka

Bengaluru, Sept 5: Veteran journalist and peace activist Gauri Lankesh (55) who led a crusade against saffron extremists and communalism in Karnataka for decades was on Tuesday shot dead by unidentified gunmen near her residence in Bengaluru. The incident took place within a few days after the second anniversary of the assassination of M M Kalburgi, a rationalist and former vice-chancellor of

Mangaluru/Bengaluru, Sept 5: Hundreds of hardline Hindutva leaders including members were detained on Tuesday to abort illegal “Mangaluru Chalo” minutes after it was flagged off in Bengaluru. The rally was supposed to reach Mangaluru on September 7 through the authorities had denied permission. High drama ensued as over 200 bike riders who successfully reached Freedom Park in Bengaluru, despite

Since the advent of multiplexes there has been a paradigm shift of cinemagoers, thereby decreasing the crowd at single screen talkies. “We do not see college students rushing into theatres the way they did before. We do not have luxurious facilities that multiplexes provide and hence cannot attract the youth these days. Having a single screen is another limitation,” says Ravi Shankar Rai the

New Delhi, Sept 5: The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into Karnataka police officer Ganapathy's death. Ahead of the apex court order, Ganapathy's family had sought the apex court's intervention in the case. Notably, the Karnataka CID had given a clean chit to senior Congress leader and Karnataka government minister KJ George. The controversy over

Kolkata, Sept 5: The RSS today alleged that a state-owned auditorium here where its chief Mohan Bhagwat was scheduled to attend a programme on October 3 has cancelled the booking for the event. The move to cancel the booking was condemned by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh(RSS) but the auditorium authorities said renovation and repair work would be undertaken around that time and therefore the

Mysuru, Sept 5: Kannada writer and Hindutva advocate S L Bhyrappa has demanded direct flight from Mysuru to Mangaluru and Hubballi instead of flight service between Mysuru and Bengaluru. Speaking at the launch of 'You Cannot Miss This Flight', essays on Emerging India, organised by Mysuru Literary Forum Charitable Trust Book Clubs and Harper Collins Publishers at a private hotel, here he said that

Kochi/Mumbai, Sept 5: An Air India Express aircraft carrying 102 passengers and six crew members on-board veered off the taxiway at Kochi airport after it arrived from Abu Dhabi early this morning. However, all passengers were evacuated safely. "All passengers were evacuated through ladder. All safe. No casualties," a Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL) spokesman said. The nose-wheel of

New Delhi, Sept 5: The Supreme Court on Monday declined a plea by mining baron and former Karnataka Minister G Janardhana Reddy to live in Ballari. A bench of Justices A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan dismissed an application by Reddy to relax the conditions of bail. Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, representing Reddy sought modification of January 21, 2015 orders whereby the apex court had granted him

Bengaluru, Sept 5: Water Resources Minister M B Patil has said that the Lingayat community was even ready to move the Supreme Court to realise social reformer Basavanna’s “dream” of a separate religion. But before that, the community would wait for the state government’s mandate on a separate religious status to the Lingayat community. He also said that there was no point in reaching out to the

Bengaluru/Mangaluru, Sept 5: The Congress government and the Opposition BJP appear set for a showdown as the saffron party is firm on taking out its ‘Mangaluru Chalo’ bike rally from five districts across the State, starting Tuesday. Bengaluru City Police has refused permission for the rally and imposed prohibitory orders for three days under the Karnataka Police Act. The police tightened security