Karnataka

Bengaluru, Jul 21: The High Court of Karnataka on Thursday acquitted four members of the Dandupalya gang of murder and their death sentence was set aside. These alleged notorious thieves and murderers, involved in a series of cases of theft and murder, were acquitted of the murder of Dr Prabhakar Joshi and his son Neelakanta Joshi in Hubballi in 2000. A division bench comprising Justice Ravi

Udupi, Jul 21: Miscreants belonging to Bajrang Dal on Thursday waylaid a vehicle and thrashed two persons for allegedly illegally transporting two buffaloes at Jarigekatte Junction in Mundkur village coming under Karkala Rural Police Station limits in Udupi district. It is learnt that the miscreants stopped a van which was carrying two buffaloes at Jarigekatte Junction at around 8 a.m.. They beat

New Delhi, Jul 21: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday asked the Opposition parties in the Rajya Sabha to stop giving a political colour to cow-related violence, saying it could never be a partisan issue. Replying to a debate on the issue of beef-related violence and lynching, Jaitley said, “Violence can never be a partisan issue and oppression in the name of cow will not be tolerated.” He

Bengaluru, Jul 21: Continuing to crack the whip on officials of the Parappana Agrahara Central Prison here, the State government on Thursday shunted out Prison Superintendent R Anitha to Dharwad prison. P S Ramesh, incumbent Superintend at Dharwad prison, has been posted in place of Anitha here. Anitha’s transfer came a day after the special enquiry team headed by retired IAS officer Vinay Kumar

Bidar, Jul 21: Over 50,000 people from the Lingayat community, a dominant caste in northern Karnataka, gathered in Bidar on Wednesday to demand that Lingayatism be classified as a separate religion rather than a caste in Hinduism. The “apolitical” rally, attended by Lingayats from Karnataka, Maharashtra, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and other states, was organised as part of efforts to take forward a

Bengaluru, Jul 21: A musician played the guitar on the operation table as he underwent a surgery at a private hospital in Bengaluru for a rare movement disorder affecting guitarists. The successful brain circuit surgery, believed to be the first such operation in the country, was performed on July 11 by a team of doctors from Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain Hospital on 37-year-old Abishek Prasad, who has a

Mangaluru, Jul 20: The Congress party is contemplating on filing criminal case against BJP MP Shobha Karandlaje for submitting misleading information regarding communal incidents in coastal Karnataka to Union Home ministry. Addressing media persons in the city on Thursday, Chief whip of the Government in the Legislative Council Ivan D'Souza said that Karandlaje should extend apology and also

New Delhi, Jul 20: BJP chief Amit Shah today hailed as "historic" the election of NDA candidate Ram Nath Kovind as the next president and said it is a "victory for the poor, downtrodden and marginalised and their aspirations". In a series of tweets after Kovind was declared victorious in the presidential poll, Shah expressed confidence that he would distinguish himself as an exceptional president

Mysuru, Jul 20: B Shankaraiah, 58, the tahsildar of T Narasipur in Mysuru district, was found hanging at his official quarters on Wednesday. The Karnataka Administrative Service officer who was appointed to the post nearly a year ago left behind a note saying he was facing severe work pressure and was unhappy as he failed to get a transfer. The taluk, represented by PWD minister HC Mahadevappa, is

Mangaluru, Jul 20: Businessman, philanthropist and proprietor of New Sultan Beedi Works, Haji B Husain Koadje, passed away at a private hospital in Mangaluru after a brief period of illness on Thursday. He was 73. Popularly known as Sultan Haji, he was a resident of Kodaje village near Mani. He had got discharged from a hospital on Wednesday after two weeks of treatment for chest pain. On Thursday