Karnataka

Chikkamagaluru, Dec 3: German champion Fabian Kreim (co-driver Frank Christian) of Team MRF set early pace by topping the time charts in the Super Special Stage ahead of team-mate Gaurav Gill (Glenn Macneall) as the Coffee Day India Rally got off to a thrilling start here on Saturday. The Coffee Day Rally, which is also the concluding round of the FIA Asia Pacific Rally Championship, and organized

New Delhi, Dec 4: As part of the Centre's efforts to make India a cashless society, petrol pumps across the country will instal infrastructure to accept not only credit and debit cards, but also e-wallets and mobile wallets as an alternative to cash, Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Friday. “As many as 29,905 petrol pumps across the country have POS (point of sale)

Raichur, Dec 4: People expressing their liberal views in the open face assault in contemporary society, writer Dr Giraddi Govindaraj rued. Presenting a paper onDemocracy and Freedom of Expression” on the second day of the 82nd Akhila Bharatha Kannada Sahitya Sammelana here on Saturday, Govindaraj expressed his concern on “inevitability” of writers to live amid police protection. Recalling a recent

Madikeri, Dec 4: Slamming the police department for failing to nab the miscreants involved in burning of Qur'an at Igoor mosque at Somwarpet taluk recently, Kodagu Zilla Muslim?Samaj has warned of severe protests. Setting a deadline of one week for the police to nab the culprits, the Samaj has warned of putting up a show of strength by organising a mammoth convention of 25,000 people, followed

Mangaluru, Dec 4: Over one hundred devotees took part in the modifiedyede snana' on the premises of the Sri Subrahmanya Temple at Kukke on the outskirts of the city on Saturday on the occasion of Chowthi and the annual fair. 'Yede Snana' is an alternative evolved in place of the controversial, age-old practice of Made Snana, wherein lower caste devotees roll over the left over food partaken by the

Bengaluru, Dec 4: In what comes as a relief for Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, a special Lokayukta court on Saturday dismissed a private complaint seeking a probe against him in the luxury watch controversy. The expensive imported watch gifted to Mr. Siddaramaiah made for controversy after opposition leader H.D. Kumaraswamy alleged that it was a stolen watch in February, 2016. Various theories

Bengaluru, Dec 4: A 30-year-old software engineer riding a motorcycle lost his life after falling from his bike on the Electronics City flyover and being run over by a cab. His friend, who was riding pillion, was injured. The deceased, Chandra Duggamati, was from Nellore in Andhra Pradesh. He worked at a tech firm in Electronics City and was returning home from work. The roads were slippery owing

Udupi, Dec 4: Activists of the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) staged a day-long hunger strike in front of the Deputy Commissioner's office in Udupi on Saturday demanding better facilities for the minorities. Addressing the gathering, Abdul Rehman Malpe, general secretary of SDPI district unit, said that even after 69 years of Independence, the full benefits of government schemes were yet

Mangaluru, Dec 3: A five-year-old girl died after she was hit by a van in Kokkada village of Belthangady taluk on Saturday night. According to Dharmasthala police, Krithika had accompanied her mother for a check-up at a clinic in Kokkada market. While returning from the clinic, a van hit her as she was crossing the road. Krithika was taken to nearby hospital where she succumbed to injury

Moradabad, Dec 3: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today referred to a WhatsApp video showing a beggar using a swipe machine to persuade people to shift to digital monetary transactions, insisting Indians do not take long to accept new things if they know the intention behind an action is right. "I don't know how far it is true but there is a video going viral on Whatsapp of a beggar being told by a