Karnataka

Mangaluru, Aug 27: Actor-turned-politician Ramya, who took Mangaluru by storm earlier this week, has called upon the people of coastal Karnataka to stay united and uphold the communal harmony and glorious tradition of Tulu Nadu. In an informal chat with Coastaldiget.com before leaving this coastal city, a day after she participated in a cultural programme, where a couple of miscreants had pelted

Mangaluru, Aug 27: A group of Muslim students of Srinivas group of colleges on Saturday boycotted classes and staged a demonstration at the entrance gate of the institution at Valachil, near here in protest against the alleged attempt by the college authorities to curb the religious rights of Muslims. The protest was organised under the aegis of the Campus Front of India (CFI) after Srinivas

Mangaluru, Aug 27: A fire triggered by a gas leak engulfed a canteen located near Pumpwell Circle in Mangaluru on Saturday. Police said the accident occurred around 6.30 am due to leakage from an LPG cylinder. The roof and walls of Prashant Canteen were damaged in the incident. The fire also damaged a wall and a portion of roof of the adjacent Vishvajit Wines. The local residents who saw the fire

Mumbai, Aug 27: One of the arguments raised in the court by the Haji Ali Dargah Trust justifying its ban on women inside the inner sanctum, was that the female devotees wearing blouses with wide necks bend on the mazaar thus showing their breasts. In a significant judgement, the Bombay High Court on Friday lifted the ban imposed on women from entering the sanctum sanctorum of Haji Ali dargah. The

Madikeri, Aug 27: Kodagu Sangh Parivar activist Praveen Poojary was murdered by a group of Popular Front of India (PFI) activists in retaliation for a stone-throwing incident at a prayer hall during the torchlight procession organised by the Hindu Jagrana Vedike in Kushalnagar, Inspector General of Police (Southern Range), B?K?Singh, has said. Praveen Poojary, an auto-rickshaw driver by profession

New Delhi, Aug 26: A BJP member of the Lok Sabha refused to take the US visa after he was asked to remove his pugree at the US Embassy for security reasons, asserting that his turban was a matter of his "traditional honour" which he cannot remove. Virendra Singh, a three-time Lok Sabha MP and presently representing Bhadohi (UP), said the US embassy had first interviewed him over farming issues and

Bengaluru, Aug 27: Accusing Air India of cheating them, four British citizens staged a protest in front of the airline office at Unity Building in the heart of the city on Friday. The Britons - Nayeema, Manza, Ivan and Diya - were angry as their reserved seats were transferred to the other passengers. They said that they had come to the city on August 7. “We had paid Rs 2.5 lakh and reserved the

Mangaluru, Aug 27: A 36-year-old Nigerian national has been arrested by the police while selling cocaine, near Kaprigudda in the city. The accused has been identified as Emeka Clinton Obinna. 4.05 kilogram of cocaine worth Rs 2 lakh, Rs 39,000 in cash and a mobile phone was also sized from him during the raid by the sleuths of Mangaluru South Police Station. The accused has also been charged with

Bengaluru:?Aug 27: The BJP?Minority Morcha on Friday charged the state government with indulging in “divisive politics” by not inviting BJP Muslim leaders to the inauguration of the Haj Bhavan in Bengaluru. The Bhavan, located at Hegde Nagar, is scheduled for inauguration on Saturday to coincide with Air India's first Haj flight from Karnataka. Addressing a press conference in Bengaluru, Morcha

Mangaluru, Aug 26: The alert police department in Karnataka is keeping a continuous check on any ISIS development in the state, particularly in the coastal belt, said Home Minister G Parameshwara. The minister, who was in the city to chair a review meet of Western Range, here on Friday, said that the state the internal security agency was in continuous contact with NIA and RAW following mysterious