Karnataka

New Delhi, Sep 14: The Centre has urged the Supreme Court to ban a 500-year-old temple ritual in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu where Dalits roll over food leftover by Brahmins to apparently cure skin diseases, solve marriage problems and infertility. The social justice ministry called the practice “inhuman and superstitious” and said it affects human dignity and harms the health of those practising it

Bengaluru, Sep 14: The Karnataka government received thumbs down from business leaders for its handling of the unrest over the Cauvery water-sharing dispute which has paralysed India's technology capital for the past three working days. The overwhelming opinion was that the Siddaramaiah government had made a pig's ear of the issue, resulting in financial losses for enterprises and a loss of face

Mangaluru, Sep 14: Unidentified miscreants barged into a fast food joint at Tannirbhavi beach, a prominent tourist spot in the city, in the wee hours of Tuesday and vandalized furniture and other things. This is not the first time the Munchiz Fast Food owned by Yojaka India Private Limited is being targeted by the miscreants. The motto is yet to be known. Yojaka India Private Limited has bagged

Mewat, Sep 14: It is 7 in the morning and the devout of Ghasera village, off the Gurgaon-Alwar road, wait to enter the Eidgah, one of the largest mosques in these parts, to offer prayers. But on Eid-ul-Adha or Bakrid, a festival marked by prayers and feasting, the mood is far from festive as the conversation inevitably veers around to the beef biryani' controversy in Mewat, a largely Muslim

Bengaluru, Sep 14: Amid the Cauvery turbulence, a 25-year-old bride braved her way to Karnataka border in an attempt to reach Vaniyambadi in neighbouring Tamil Nadu by walking several kilometres in the absence of public transport system. R Prema, a citizen of Bengaluru, is getting married tomorrow to a man living in Tamil Nadu. Since public transport vehicles were off the road due to the unrest

Mangaluru, Sep 13: Two college students have lost their lives in two separate drowning incidents occurred on the outskirts of the city. A 20-year-old student from Moodbidri was disappeared while playing in the Arabian Sea off Panambur Beach even as five of his friends were rescued by lifeguards on Tuesday afternoon. The youth has been identified as Praful, a second-year degree student at Alva's

Madikeri, Sep 13: The growing tribe of cow vigilantes has dented the festive mood of a poor Muslim family as its breadwinner became the latest victim of notorious Gau Rakshaks (cow vigilantes) in communally sensitive Kodagu district. Barring coastal districts, the Eid-ul-Adha or Bakrid was celebrated across Karnataka on Tuesday. P?A?Basheer, a resident of Kondangeri in Virajpet taluk, has been

Kasargord, Sep 13: The family of Izaj here, who, along with his son and pregnant wife Rifaila, has gone missing under suspicious circumstances, received a message that the woman has delivered a girl child. A section of media and political parties suspect that the missing might have couple have joined the so called Islamic State, a dreaded terror outfit. However investigators are still clueless

Bengaluru, Sep 13: A day after being rocked by large-scale violence, the city appeared to limp back to normal today with sporadic protests, even as the Karnataka government decided to comply with the Supreme Court's modified order to release 12,000 cusecs of water Tamil Nadu till September 20. As the Cauvery unrest kept the country's IT capital on the boil, the government warned of dealing with an

Bengaluru, Sep 13: The Cauvery river dispute violence that rocked Benglauru on Monday claimed its second life on Tuesday, after a 32-year-old man who allegedly jumped off the third floor of a building in west Bengaluru succumbed to his injuries in hospital. Kumar Narayan, a bar bender by profession and Sunkadakatte resident, is said to have taken shelter on a third floor of a building housing a