Karnataka

Manipal, Oct 16: Over 5,500 staff and students of Manipal University and Kasturba Hospital Manipal participated in a mammoth hand-washing event to create a world record on Saturday. Over 2,500 were part of the hand sanitization programme held from 7am to 6pm at the Marena Sports Complex. The hand-washing relay will go into the early hours of Sunday. October 15 is dedicated as Global Hand-washing

Mangaluru, Oct 16: Three persons who were arrested more than three years ago for the possession of cannabis have been sentenced to 10 years of rigorous by the Principal District and Sessions Court here. Besides, each of the three convicted have been asked to pay fine of Rs 1 lakh (total Rs 3 lakh). In a joint raid at Fishing Harbour in Mangaluru on March 11, 2013, the Criminal Investigation

Edison (New Jersey), Oct 16: Terming India as a "key strategic ally", Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has promised that if voted to power India and the US would become "best friends" and have a "phenomenal future" together. "Under a Trump Administration, we are going to become even better friends, in fact I would take the term better out and we would be best friends," Trump, 70, told

Kannur, Oct 16: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national executive member P.K. Krishnadas has said that the party will organise national-level protests against the CPI(M)'s reign of terror' in the district. Inaugurating the BJP's district convention here on Saturday, he said that the protest campaign is planned in response to the indifference of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan towards the unrest in

Bengaluru, Oct 16: Karnataka government is mulling an increase in the reservation ceiling for the Schedule Castes and Schedule Tribes in education and employment beyond 50 per cent, based on the population, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said here today. Government will come out with a decision in this regard soon after consulting legal experts and weighing its pros and cons, he said in an official

Bengaluru, Oct 16: BJP?state president B?S?Yeddyurappa and party general secretary Shobha Karandlaje have urged Kannadigas residing in the US to campaign for the BJP during the 2018 Assembly elections. The IT wing of the party had organised a video conference of Yeddyurappa with NRI Kannadigas in?Bengaluru on Saturday. Karandlaje, in her interaction, said in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, a large

Mangaluru, Oct 15: Former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda on Saturday called on Thwaka Ahmed Musliyar, the Khazi of Mangaluru and appreciated his efforts towards promoting peace, communal harmony and brotherhood in the coastal district. In a brief discussion with the coastal city's most respected Muslim religious leader, the Janata Dal (Secular) supremo said that he would strongly back the Muslim

New Delhi, Oct 15: Controversial Delhi-based meat exporter Moin Qureshi was today detained at the airport here in a money laundering case but managed to give immigration authorities the slip and flew to Dubai after showing a court order in an income tax case, leaving officials red faced. An inquiry has been ordered by the immigration authorities into the gaffe. Qureshi was detained based on a Look

Kalaburagi, Oct 15: People in remote villages of Kalaburgi district in north Karnataka have been experiencing mild tremors' for past few days. However, nobody suffered injuries and no damage to property was reported. Residents claimed that they experienced strange noise and “mild tremors” for at least eight times in two days. The earthquake measuring centre has confirmed strange noises that were

Mangaluru, Oct 15: city based entrepreneur Sumith S Rao was today elected the Chairman of Industry Cell of Dakshina Kannada District unit of Bharatiya Janata Party during the District Working Committee meeting held at Hotel Lalith, Surathkal. The meeting was attended by eminent party leaders like sitting DK MP Nalin Kumar Kateel, MLC Capt. Ganesh Karnik, former state minister Krishna J Palemar and