Karnataka

Mangaluru, Jul 22: the Social Democratic Party of India will be conducting a national campaign 'resist lynching India' from 1 to 25 August 2017. A Sayeed, President of SDPI, stated in a release that the purpose of this campaign is to create awareness among the people and to unite them to resist the anarchic situation in the country aroused by so called 'Gau Rakshaks'. “The terror created by these

Bengaluru, Jul 22: A day after the BJP sent a strong political message by ensuring an emphatic victory for Ram Nath Kovind in presidential elections, a three-day conference in Congress-ruled Karnataka on Dalit icon BR Ambedkar triggered a parallel narrative on the state of Dalits in the country. In his inaugural address at the symposium on Friday, human rights activist and social reformer Martin

Bengaluru, Jul 22: Close on the heels of the BJP launching the Vistaarak programme, the state Congress on Friday came out with an elaborate plan to strengthen the party at the booth-level in the run-up to the next Assembly elections. The Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) has decided to appoint 70,000 booth-level agents covering all the 224 Assembly constituencies in order to spread the

Bengaluru, Jul 22: The High Court of Karnataka has stayed the sanction granted by the state government to prosecute RSS leader Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat, in a petition seeking quashing of two FIRs filed against him in 2014. Justice Aravind Kumar granted stay on the sanction order granted by the state government as required for cases filed under Section 153A and 505(2) of the Indian Penal Code -

New Delhi, Jul 22: An internal committee of the Home Ministry is looking into inclusion of Tulu and Kodava languages in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution, according to the union government. Responding to a private member’s bill moved by B K Hariprasad (Congress), Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiran Rijiju told the Rajya Sabha on Friday that the official panel tasked to come out with the

New Delhi, Jul 21: The government today asserted in Parliament that it has no intention to impose Hindi over any other Indian language, a remark which assumes significance because of protests in some states due to apprehensions over the issue. All languages are national languages, althought Hindi is the official language, said Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju, who is in-charge of the

New Delhi, Jul 21: The Centre on Friday informed Supreme Court that it does not support any kind of cow vigilantism in any state and no such group has any place in the country as per the procedure of law. The Apex Court then asked all the states to file an affidavit in the matter asking them how they will prevent cow vigilantism. On the other hand, the BJP-ruled states Gujarat and Jharkhand told

Mumbai, Jul 21: Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) chairman Mukesh Ambani on Friday launched JioPhone – what he dubbed as 'India ka Intelligent Smart Phone'. The RIL chairman made this announcement while addressing the 40th Annual General Meeting (AGM) at the Birla Matushri Sabhagar at Mumbai’s Sir Vithaldas Thackersey Marg. Mukesh Ambani, during the meeting, said the JioPhone will be a 4G enabled

Hyderabad, Jul 21: Dozens of cattle including cows have starved to death at a goshala in Andhra Pradesh, officials said, highlighting the neglect animals face while people are being killed in the name of cow protection. Officials on Wednesday found decomposed carcasses rotting away in heaps of dung on the premises of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty towards Animals (SPCA) shelter at Kakinada

New Delhi, Jul 21: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has has travelled 49 countries in the last three years during which India signed a number of agreements on a range of topics, the government today said. In a written response to a question in the Rajya Sabha, V K Singh, the Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs, said the prime minister visited eight countries in the first second half