Karnataka

Mumbai, Jun 23: Days after Pakistan hammered a blundering India by 180 runs to lift the ICC Champions Trophy, at The Oval, a video showing hundreds of people donned in white attire with skull caps on their heads celebrating men in green’s victory has created a row on social media. The online ‘swayamsevaks’ of Sangh Parivar went on to claim that the video was shot in a mosque in Mumbai's Mira road

Karwar, Jun 22: High alert has been declared around the Project Seabird, Asia's most advanced naval base in Karwar, following reports that three unknown persons infiltrated into the area on Wednesday night. While naval officials have not yet commented on it, a Kannada television channel claimed that the security personnel are combing the entire area. The naval base is located at Alageri village

Mangaluru, Jun 22: Social Democratic Party of India has urged B Ramanath Rai, the minister for forest, environment and ecology, to take moral responsibility of communal clashes and murder in his Bantwal constituency and step down from Dakshina Kannada district in-charge minister’s post immediately. Addressing a press meet in the city on Thursday, a day after the cold blooded murder of party

Mangaluru, Jun 22: Prohibitory orders were promulgated in Mangaluru city police commissionerate limits on Thursday in view of recurrence of violence in adjacent Bantwal taluk. The week-long prohibitory orders under Section 144 of the CrPC that commence from last night will be in force till the midnight of June 27. In fact the Section 144 has been clamped in four taluks of Dakshina Kannada district

Mangaluru, Jun 22: The Bharatiya Janata Party supremo Amit Shah, who will be touring Karnataka for three days from August 3 may visit the communally sensitive areas of Dakshina Kannada district too, a local leader of the party said on condition of anonymity. Entire Bantwal taluk is reeling under prohibitory orders under Section 144 of CrPC for almost past one month thanks to the communal tensions

Mangaluru, Jun 21: Young IPS officer C H Sudheer Kumar Reddy, who was transferred from Mandya to Dakshina Kannada yesterday, assumed the office today from outgoing Superintendent of Police Bhushan Gulabrao Borase at the district police headquarters in the city. A 2010 batch IPS officer Reddy also holds a BTech degree from Pondicherry Engineering College. He has served as additional superintendent

Mangaluru, Jun 22: Thousands of people including activists of social and political organisations on Wednesday night attended the funeral of Mohammed Ashraf Kalai near Kalai Juma Masjid in Bantwal taluk. Ashraf, a social activist and SDPI’s Ammunje zonal unit president, was hacked to death by a gang of miscreants at Benjanapadavu in Bantwal taluk on Wednesday morning in broad daylight hours after

Bengaluru, Jun 22: The farm loan waiver announced by CM Siddaramaiah in the legislative assembly on Wednesday saw much bantering between the Congress and the BJP in both Houses of the legislature. Defending the move, the chief minister pulled up the BJP . Here's his take: The PM assured a farm loan waiver in the run-up to UP assembly elections and it featured in the BJP's poll manifesto. The party

Mangaluru, Jun 22: After re-evaluation, a girl from Puttur in Dakshina Kannada district has shared the second rank in science stream in Karnataka state in the second year pre-university examinations results of which had been declared last month. Haritha MB from Vivekananda Pre University College, Puttur, has now scored 595 marks (99.16 %) against 589 marks (98.16%) earlier. After re-evaluation she

New Delhi, Jun 22: The government’s surprise announcement late on Monday night to allow district cooperative banks to exchange demonetised currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 with the RBI may trigger more such demands from those still left with the old bills. The government had set December 30 as the deadline for exchanging the banned notes, barring some exigencies for which the window was open