Karnataka

New Delhi, Feb 11: Nothing can stop 22-year-old Roshni Misbah from doing what she loves - riding a bike. Known as 'Hijabi Biker' in her campus as she wears the hijab while riding the bike, Roshni is a student of Arabic and Culture Studies at the Jamia Milia Islamia University. She took her first ride in class 9, also wearing her hijab. She chooses to don it "as her passion for bikes does not

Mumbai, Feb 11: 36-year-old Eman Ahmed, one of the heaviest women in the world, today landed here for weight reduction treatment at a local facility. Eman, who travelled to India in an EgyptAir plane, landed at Mumbai international airport around 4 am. Eman, who has not moved out of her house for 25 years, would be under observation for about a month before she undergoes surgery, doctors said. One

Mandya, Feb 11: A 19-year-old man was stabbed to death allegedly by four of his friends near a Dargah at Pandavapura in Mandya district yesterday following a clash between them over religious differences. According to sources, the differences between two Muslim groups – Tablighi Jamaat and Barelvi – led to the murder of Luqman, son of Munavar Pasha, a local resident. It is learnt that he was

Bengaluru, Feb 11: Higher Education Minister Basavaraj Rayareddy said it is not possible to present pure gold medals to rank students of Bangalore University. If people, including students pay for them, then they will get pure gold medals, he added. He was replying to Lakshminarayana (BJP) who raised a question in this regard on behalf of K?C?Kondaiah (Cong) in the Legislative Council on Friday

Bengaluru, Feb 11: Former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa has now accused the incumbent Chief Minister Siddaramaiah of paying over Rs 1,000 crore to Congress leaders in Delhi to save his chair. Addressing media persons in Bagalkot the BJP state president claimed that a diary seized by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) had revealed that Rs 1,000 crore in donation was given by chief minister

Bengaluru, Feb 11: JD(S) national president H D Deve Gowda on Friday charged Prime Minister Narendra Modi with planning to deposit Rs 25,000 into bank accounts of the poor ahead of the crucial 2018 Assembly elections in the state. “Don’t take Modi lightly. I know his strategies. He is planning to deposit Rs 25,000 into bank accounts of those who are below the poverty line during the elections,” he

Bhopal, Feb 10: The Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) of Madhya Pradesh police has arrested 11 persons for allegedly supplying information to Pakistan's spy agency ISI. ATS chief Sanjiv Shami talking to newsmen in Bhopal on Thursday said that the espionage racket was handled from Paksitan through a private telephone exchange, which could have also been used for transferring Hawala money and lottery fraud

Mangaluru, Feb 10: Over 80 agitators, including Dakshina Kannada MP Nalin Kumar Kateel, who on Friday launched a a symbolic hunger strike against the incumbent Congress government of the state for going ahead with the Yettinahole Diversion Project initiated by previous BJP government, were briefly detained by the police. The protest was contrary to the announcement on February 6, when activists

Bengaluru, Feb 10: Bowing to public pressure, a bill to facilitate the conduct of traditional buffalo race "Kambala" and bullock cart races in Karnataka was introduced in the state Assembly today. The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Karnataka Amendment) Bill, 2017 tabled by Minister for Animal Husbandry and Sericulture A Manju, seeks to amend the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960, in

Agra, Feb 10: Rapists should be tortured "till their skin comes off", Union minister Uma Bharti has said and accused the Samajwadi Party government of failing to provide justice to the victims of the Bulandshahr gangrape case. Addressing an election rally here yesterday, she claimed that during her tenure as chief minister when a rape incident happened, "I also told the woman to watch the rapist