Karnataka

Bengaluru, Oct 28: The state Congress leaders on Thursday launched a scathing attack on state BJP president B S Yeddyurappa in the wake of his getting a clean chit from the court in a corruption case, saying that “he will lose in people's court.” “The whole country knows about his (Yeddyurappa) involvement in corruption cases and that he went to jail. He might have escaped the clutches of law. But

Bengaluru, Oct 28: The Karnataka government will soon terminate as many as 804 doctors for unauthorised absence from work. A?decision in this regard was taken after the doctors failed to report to work even after being served notices. During a press conference on Thursday, Minister for Health and Family Welfare K?R?Ramesh Kumar said these doctors, who were appointed by the health department, have

Bengaluru, Oct 28: RSS worker Rudresh R, 35, was allegedly hacked to death by four of his long-time acquaintances who were upset with his meteoric rise as a leader in Shivajinagar and the neighbourhood, police have claimed. Announcing the arrest of the quartet at a news conference here on Thursday, city police commissioner NS Megharikhsaid that the accused confessed to their crime. They told

Belagavi, Oct 28: Yellappa Handibag, brother of Chikkamagaluru DySP Kallappa Handibag who killed himself in July this year, also allegedly committed suicide on Thursday under mysterious circumstances. Yellappa, 28, who was a police constable at Kulagod police station in Gokak taluk, allegedly ended his life by hanging at his house in Kulagod. Yellappa, who was on duty at the three-day Kittur Utsav

Mangaluru, Oct 27: After stern warning from saffron outfits such as Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Chief Whip of the government in State Legislative Council Ivan?D'Souza has decided to shift his proposed Bhavaikyata Deepavali's venue to the Gau?Raksha Hall at Kadri. Earlier, Mr D'Souza had planned to celebrate the event at Abhisheka Mandira within the precincts of Kadri Manjunatha Swamy temple on October

Mangaluru, Oct 27: Accusing the Kana Nagarika Horata Samiti of trying to mislead people of his constituency by holding unnecessary protests, Mangaluru North MLA B A Mohiuddin Bava said that he left no stone unturned to accomplish the Suratkal-Kana-MRPL road repair work at the earliest. Responding to the allegations that he ignored the protesters and refused to pay heed to their agony, Mr Bava said

Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 27: A day after a 90-year- old man was mauled to death by a pack of street dogs at Varkala, enraged locals allegedly killed a number of canines in the area today. Police said they have registered a case in connection with the killing of the dogs. Though they did not specify the number of dogs killed, Kochi-based Street Dog free campaign head Jose Maveli claimed that around

Bengaluru, Oct 27: The Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) concept of `Mohalla Clinics' in Delhi is all set to be replicated in Karnataka with the Siddaramaiah government on Thursday deciding to establish extended health centres in slums and labour colonies across the state. The move comes in the backdrop of a recent field-study conducted by the Karnataka's health department officials on mohalla clinics

Bengaluru, Oct 27: Following the directions of the Supreme Court, the State government on Wednesday banned the sale of flavoured chewing tobacco that is being sold in sachets as an alternative to the now banned gutka. After the State banned manufacture, storage, distribution and sale of ghutka in May 2013, flavoured chewing tobacco (in the form ofzarda',khaini',mawa',masheri' among others) and pan

Mangaluru, Oct 27: The Muslim Central Committee of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi, along with several other organisations associated with the Muslim community, has joined the nationwide campaign against the union government's attempt to impalement a Uniform Civil Code (UCC). Addressing media persons in the city on Thursday, Committee president K S Mohammed Masood said that all the Muslim organisations