Karnataka

Bengaluru, Feb 5: Home Minister G?Parameshwara on Saturday said the Centre would have to permit Karnataka to deport overstaying foreign nationals. Reacting to media questions on overstaying foreign students, Parameshwara said there is a standing instruction to the police to take action against overstaying foreigners. “However, we do face certain constraints. Deportation may not be appreciated by

New Delhi, Feb 5: The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) sleuths have seized 4 kg cocaine, worth Rs 30 crore in the international market, from the possession of two African women. The accused, identified as Zambian national Thelma Mkandawire, 38, and Tanzanian national Pamela D Kiritta, 41, were arrested from a hotel near the airport on Friday. The NCB had been close on the heels of Mkandawire ever

Bengaluru, Feb 4: Nearly 39 months after the attack on a bank official in an ATM kiosk in Corporation circle, Bengaluru, the Andhra Pradesh Police have reportedly nabbed the culprit. Bank official Jyoti Uday was brutually attacked by an unknown person in an ATM centre in November 2013, when she went to withdraw money. Based on the CCTV footage of the ATM kiosk, Bengaluru police had launched for

Lucknow, Feb 4: Amidst hectic electioneering in UP, firebrand BJP MP Yogi Adityanath today again sought to play the religious card, saying the alleged exodus of Hindus from Kairana and 'love jihad' were important issues for the party. BJP, he said, will not let Western Uttar Pradesh turn into another Kashmir, a reference to the forced migration of Kashmiri Pandits from the Valley in the 1990s.

Mangaluru, Feb 4: The temple square at Car Street (Ratha Beedi) in the city was adorned with rainbow colours Saturday as thousands of devotees celebrated the Okuli festival (Holi) in their traditional style as part of the annual Car Festival of Venkataramana Temple. The Car Festival orKodial Teru' came to an end with colorful Okuli celebrations. The event delighted the devotees with high wattage

Shivamogga, Feb 4: After a college here lifted a controversial dress code that had been in force since the start of the current academic year, a group of students supported by the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) staged a protest on Friday in the college premises demanding the code continue to remain in effect. Cops led by Shivamogga SP Abhinava Khare, however, managed to quell the

Bengaluru, Feb 4: Karnataka BJP president BS Yeddyurappa on Saturday claimed that SM Krishna, who recently resigned from the Congress, will join his party soon. "SM Krishna has decided to join BJP. We don't know when for certain, we'll fix that soon. But he is joining 100 per cent," Yeddyurappa told ANI. Ever since Krishna resigned as the external affairs minister in 2012, he has remained a

Mangaluru, Feb 4: Even a common man can venture into entrepreneurship and succeed as union and state governments have launched several schemes to encourage and promote start-ups, said S G Hegde, former joint director of District Industries Centre, Mangaluru. He was delivering a talk onIndustry Policy and Subsidies' at a seminar onbusiness development and entrepreneurship' organised by the Bearys

Bengaluru, Feb 4: The Karnataka Media Academy on Friday announced its annual awards for 15 journalists for 2016. Ronald Anil Fernandes, the Mangaluru Bureau chief of Deccan Herald, Hemanth Kumar from Indian Express, Bengaluru, Siddiqui Aldoori, a senior journalist from Chikkamagaluru and K H Chandru, senior photographer from Mysuru are among those selected for the annual award. The other awardees

Dharward, Feb 3: Nidhi Sateesh, student of SDM Law College, Mangaluru, emerged as the 'golden girl' by bagging two gold medals at the third convocation of the Karnataka State Law University (KSLU) held at Sannidhi auditorium in JSS College campus in Dharwad on Friday. She received the gold medal instituted by the KSLU for coming first in the 2-year LLM (business and trade laws) and Nana Palkiwala