Karnataka

Bengaluru, Aug 25: BJP leaders B S Yeddyurappa and Jagadish Shettar are only namesake Lingayats, according to Higher Education Minister Basavaraj Rayareddy. “Yeddyurappa and Shettar are under the stronghold of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). They are just namesake Lingayat leaders,” Rayareddy told reporters. “Yeddyurappa was a signatory to the demand for a separate Veerashaiva-Lingayat

Bengaluru, Aug 25: A Janata Dal (Secular) team lead by former Karnataka chief minister H D Kumaraswamy will be visiting Israel to study innovative agriculture model in the desert country. Kumaraswamy, who has announced that he will adopt the Israeli model of farming if his party comes to power after next year’s Assembly elections, will be travelling in Israel for a week, where he will hold

Hubballi, Aug 25: Close on the heels of suspected Blue Whale Challenge death of an IIT-Bengaluru student, a Kendriya Vidyalaya student injured herself while playing the game in Hubballi. On Thursday, a Class VI girl (Jijabai) told her school friends that she cut her finger as part of Blue Whale Challenge. Her friends, in turn, informed the same to teachers. A teacher confirmed that the girl

Udupi, Aug 25: The will purported to be left behind by Bhaskar Shetty, NRI businessman from Udupi, has suddenly surfaced, with the murder case entwined with huge assets belonging to Shetty taking yet another turn. Shetty was allegedly done to death by his wife Rajeshwari, son Navaneeth and priest Niranjan Bhat. The case hit headlines as the plot threw up turns and twists like a potboiler a year

New Delhi, Aug 24: Union ministers Arun Jaitley and Prakash Javadekar were today appointed the BJP's election in-charge for the high-stakes Gujarat and Karnataka assembly polls respectively. BJP chief Amit Shah also appointed four Union ministers -- Narendra Singh Tomar, Nirmala Sitharaman, Jitendra Singh and P P Choudhary -- co-in-charge for the Gujarat polls, scheduled to be held later this year

Chhatarpur (MP), Aug 24: A Hindu man and his family here have embraced Islam after allegedly facing social boycott for over 28 years since he married a Muslim woman. Vinod Prakash Khare (51), a resident of Rajnagar town in the district in Bundelkhand region, said he had married a Muslim woman nearly 28 years back. Post the marriage, his wife was assigned a Hindu name. However, their alliance was

Bengaluru, Aug 24: Intense lobbying from two groups of Dalit community has forced Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to delay the Karnataka cabinet expansion. The ruling Congress is said to be in a dilemma on whether to provide ministerial berth to left or right wing of the Dalit community. Though the high command had approved a list of names for filling up the vacancies in the council of ministers last

Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 24: A 30-year-old RSS activist, accused in 2016 Anil Faisal murder case, was hacked to death in Kerala's Malappuram on Thursday morning, according to reports. Vipin, who was out on bail, was attacked near Pulinchode at around 7 am and the police found his body with serious injuries on a roadside. He was then rushed to Tirur's government hospital where he was declared dead

Bengaluru, Aug 24: Kannada actress Rachana, best known for her role in the television serial Mahanadi, was killed after a car they were travelling in collided with a truck in Karnataka’s Magadi on Thursday night. Rachana (23) was accompannied by her co-star Jeevan, who was also killed in the accident. Rachana and Jeevan were on their way to the Kukke Subramanaya temple to celebrate actor Karthik’s

Bengaluru, Aug 24: The state government on Wednesday again sent to Governor Vajubhai Vala an ordinance bill that sought to circumvent a recent Supreme Court order on the consequential seniority in promotions awarded to SC/ST employees, urging him to promulgate the ordinance. The government clarified to the Governor on the need for promulgating the ordinance. The ordinance bill is aimed at