Karnataka

Udupi, Aug 12: A youth, who beat up his parents for opening the door late, committed suicide by jumping into a well at Bijoor village near Byndoor in Kundapur taluk of Udupi district on Saturday. According to the Byndoor police, Raghava Poojary (32), had gone to Dharmasthala on August 10. He returned home around 5 a.m. He then knocked at the door of the house. But his parents were late in opening

Bengaluru, Aug 12: The BJP would neither interfere in the Lingayat religion issue nor use Kannada language row as a political tool to counter the "polarisation politics" of the Congress in Karnataka, senior BJP leader Suresh Kumar said today. "Congress is playing polarisation politics in Karnataka, and we have a strategy to counter it under the leadership of Amit Shah," Kumar told reporters after

Mangaluru, Aug 12: Congress veteran B Janardhana Poojary has warned chief minister Siddaramaiah against neglecting BJP supremo Amit Shah’s strategies for upcoming assembly polls. Speaking to media persons here on Saturday, the former union minister said that CM should wake up from and tender his resignation. “Siddaramaiah should realise that Amit Shah has come to the State to unseat the former

Bengaluru, Aug 12: JD(S) State president and former Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy is in Singapore for medical treatment. According to sources in the JD(S), Mr. Kumaraswamy has been admitted to Mount Elizabeth Hospital for a “routine medical check-up”. Admitting that Mr. Kumaraswamy is suffering from respiratory-related issues, sources said it was a routine check-up and there was no cause for

Bengaluru, Aug 12: The Associated Management of Primary & Secondary Schools in Karnataka (KAMS) has issued a circular asking member schools not to create an environment of hatred against neighbouring countries or states. This circular follows the incident on Thursday, when members of Akhila Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) forced Delhi Public School (DPS) North in Bengaluru to cancel a cultural

Bengaluru, Aug 12: BJP president Amit Shah arrived here today on a three-day visit to Karnataka to re-energise the rank and file, and asserted that the party stood united and would return to power in next year's assembly polls under the leadership of state unit chief B S Yeddyurappa. "Friends, our party stands united, and is geared up to take to the electoral battlefield under the leadership of

Bengaluru, Aug 12: An M.Tech student allegedly jumped to death from the 7th floor of the hostel building inside the premises of International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (IIIT-B) in Electronics City on Friday. The victim has been identified as Goluguri Sai Sarat (21), a seventh-semester computer science student hailing from Hyderabad. He is the second son of Kodandarama Reddy, an

Bengaluru, Aug 12: Rebel JD(S) legislator B.Z. Zameer Ahmed Khan has reiterated that he along with six other MLAs would join the Congress in the first week of December. Speaking to reporters, he said that in the 2018 Assembly elections, all seven legislators would contest on Congress ticket. “We will soon go to Delhi and meet the Congress high command in this regard,” he said. He also said the

Mangaluru, Aug 12: A local court has sentenced 37-year-old man from Sullia taluk of Dakshina Kannada district to one year’s imprisonment for posting intimate photos of a woman on a social networking site. According to the chargesheet of the Subramanya police, Kusumadhara met a 25-year-old woman of his village at a relative’s marriage. On April 14, 2013, Kusumadhara reportedly found out where she

Bengaluru, Aug 12: Ahead of the 2018 Assembly polls, the KPCC has decided to take the fight to the BJP on social media. The state Congress has announced INC Karnataka Digital, a platform on which the party’s supporters and workers can receive updates on the party and the achievements of the government. Those who want to register - digital volunteers, as the party wants to call them - can give a