Karnataka

Bengaluru, Sep 7: Home Minister G Parameshwara held a meeting with writers and progressive thinkers in connection with the probe into the killing of writer M M Kalburgi. Parameshwara said the CID team will travel to Maharashtra to interrogate Virendra Tawade, arrested by CBI in the murder of social activist Narendra Dabholkar. Parameshwara said progressive thinkers have shown concern about the

Udupi, Sep 6: As many as seven injured fishermen, who were rescued by Coastal Guard after their trawler boat rammed into a boulder amidst the raging sea off St Mary's Island in Malpe, are recovering at a hospital here. All the seven fishermen had to spend the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday on the same boulder, unsure if they would make it home at all. The men, who were on a deep-sea

Mangaluru, Sep 6: Continuing tirade against Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah, sidelined Congress veteran B Janardhana Poojary on Tuesday held the former responsible for the the Supreme Court's direction to the state government to release 15,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu every day. Addressing reporters here, he said the negligence by the state government in filing a proper affidavit led to

Moodbidri, Sep 6: Exhorting the youth to stay away from moral policing and taking law into their hands, encounter specialist Daya Nayak said that people should instead support police in maintaining law and order. Speaking on Crime, Youth and Society' after inaugurating Rostrum', Speakers' club organised by Alva's Institute of Engineering and Technology, on Tuesday, at AIET Auditorium, Mijar, here

Bengaluru, Sep 6: Bengaluru Tamil Sangam leaders today met Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara and sought protection for Tamils living in the state amid protests by farmers and various pro-Kannada outfits against the Supreme Court direction to release Cauvery water for Tamil Nadu. "We met Home Minister Parameshwara and sought protection for Tamils living across the state, including at sensitive

Mangaluru, Sep 6: In an example of communal harmony, a group of Christian priests and nuns on Tuesday participated in Ganesh festival at Sanghaniketan, the zonal headquarters of RSS in Mangaluru and offered prayers to the elephant-headed god. The activists of Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh extended a warm welcome to the priests from Infant Jesus Shrine and nuns from Santa Cruz Convent on the premises

Mangaluru, Sep 6: Several likeminded organisations in Mangaluru have come together to uphold the concept of unity and brotherhood and restore the past glory of Dakshina Kannada, which has now emerged as a communally sensitively district in the State. As part of their mission to promote human values and communal harmony among the people of the district, these organisations have planned to hold a

Mandya, Apr 6: Life across Mandya district of Karnataka was affected on Tuesday due to a bandh, called by the Mandya Zilla Raitha Hitarakshana Samiti (MZRHS), against discharge of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu as per the Supreme Court's direction. Agitated farmers and activists belonging to pro-Kannada outfits today blocked Bengaluru-Mysuru Highway as protests intensified in the wake of the Supreme

Agra, Sep 6: In the communally restive western UP, an open-air classroom held every evening in a temple premises in Agra's Sanjay Nagar colony offers hope and also a rare insight into the state's composite culture. Here, 18-year-old Pooja Kushwaha, who is herself a normal class XII student by the day, turns into teacher at dusk giving away lessons to 35 Muslim kids in the area lessons in Quran

Bengaluru, Sep 6: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has convened an all-party meeting in the state on Tuesday evening to decide the government's course of action in the wake of the Supreme Court directing Karnataka to release 15,000 cusecs of water over the next 10 days from Cauvery to Tamil Nadu. The Supreme Court's orders came in the wake of a plea by Tamil Nadu government against Karnataka