Karnataka

Mangaluru, Sep 17: The Dakshina Kannada district unit of the National Women's Front on Saturday staged a protest in the city demanding the government to hand over the case of placing hidden camera at the women's toilet on Mangalore University campus to Criminal Investigation Department. The protest comes two days after M.Sc. student Santosh M Acharya, the main accused in the case was granted bail

Mysuru, Sep 17: Property worth several lakhs of rupees belonging to corporator Suhel Baig was destroyed in a fire at his residence in Mysuru on Friday. A fire that started from a refrigerator due to a short circuit engulfed the kitchen in the ground floor and destroyed the modular kitchen and items there. Luckily, the fire didn't spread to other parts of the house or to the neighbours. Soon after

Mangaluru, Sep 17: Karnataka government is now distributing LPG connection free to BPL families in urban areas too under few schemes, said U T Khader, Minister for food, civil supplies and consumer affairs. Speaking to media persons here, he said that LPG connections can be provided to all BPL families through Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) Initially, the central government has been planning

Bengaluru, Sep 17: Onion farmers are bearing the brunt of the Cauvery agitation. Unable to transport onions to Tamil Nadu, Karnataka now has more supply than demand, leading to a drastic fall in prices. At the APMC Yard in Yeshwantpur, one of the biggest yards in the state, traders are selling onions for just `1 per kg. Protests over releasing Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu have hit the trade of

Ahmedabad, Sep 17: A 25-year-old Muslim youth, who was brutally thrashed by cow vigilantes on September 13, died at a hospital here today, police said. Mohammad Ayyub Mev was admitted to V S Hospital after he was thrashed by unidentified persons on S G Highway on the night of September 13 after his car met with an accident. A calf which he was allegedly carrying in the car died in the mishap

Bengaluru, Sep 17: The state government will examine if the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangha (RSS) had any role in stoking violence over the Cauvery issue in Bengaluru on September 12. Speaking to reporters after presiding over the KPCC office-bearers meeting on Friday, Home Minister G Parameshwara said that during the meeting, a KPCC member wondered if the RSS had any role in instigating violence in

Bengaluru, Sep 17: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday said the government would consider naming a metro station after social reformer Narayana Guru. Speaking at the Brahmashree Narayana Guru Jayanthi' programme at the Vidhana Soudha, he promised assistance for translation of works of Narayana Guru into Kannada from Malayalam and Sanskrit. Sri Narayana Guru, a Kerala-born philosopher and social

Bengaluru, Sep 17: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) special court, on Friday, sentenced all 13 Muslim youths accused of plotting to kill Hindutva leaders, police officers and journalists, to five years' imprisonment, besides levying a fine. The youths, who have been charged under several sections of the Indian Penal Code and Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, including conspiracy and

Mangaluru, Sep 17: The father and brother of former Mangaluru DySP Ganapathi, who killed himself two-and-a-half months ago, have moved the high court seeking a CBI probe into the suicide case. The petitioners - K Kushalappa(75) and his son K Machaiah - both agriculturists from Rangasamudra village in Somwarpet taluk of Kodagu district, said former minister KJ George, IPS officers Pronab Mohanty

Bengaluru, Sep 17: BJP?state president B?S?Yeddyurappa on Friday said it will not be possible for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to intervene in the Cauvery dispute as the matter was before the courts. Politically motivated Yeddyurappa told reporters on the sidelines of an event in Bengaluru that Congress' repeated demands for Modi's intervention was politically motivated as it wanted to divert