Karnataka

Mangaluru, Aug 19: With an immaculate intention to develop the religious and cultural awareness and to encourage the hidden talents of the little children, city based Kalkura Prathisthana has been organising national level children's festival Shree Krishna Vesha Competition; for three decades. S. Pradeep Kumar Kalkura, President of the Prathisthana said that this year they will be organising Shri

Washington, Aug 19: The United States has expressed shock at a photo circulating worldwide on social media that shows a dazed Syrian boy covered in blood and dust, calling him "the real face" of the country's war. "That little boy has never had a day in his life where there hasn't been war, death, destruction, poverty in his own country," State Department spokesman John Kirby told reporters during

Bengaluru, Aug 19: Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara has slammed Sangh Parivar for encouraging cow vigilantism, which claimed a youth's life in Udupi two days ago. Asked about the murder of a BJP worker on Wednesday night by Hindutva activists for illegal cow transportation, the senior Congress leader said: "The BJP must answer why its workers were transporting cows illegally.” He also said

Bengaluru, Aug 19: A young Christian evangelist has been allegedly attacked by a group of five men in Bengaluru in midnight when he was heading to religious centre after a prayer service. The victim has been identified as Evan Mamang Kipgen (26), hailing from Manipur. He works as an evangelist with the Thadou Christian Fellowship Church, here. The attack took place in Lakshmipura near Indiranagar

Bengaluru, Aug 19: Senior BJP?leader K?S?Eshwarappa on Thursday openly defied the direction of state party president B?S?Yeddyurappa by attending a meeting of the Sangolli Rayanna Brigade, an organisation of OBCs and Dalits. The defiance by Eshwarappa comes just two days after Yeddyurappa, in his capacity as head of the state unit of the BJP, had issued a diktat that any initiative to consolidate

Bengaluru, Aug 19: The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on Thursday arrested a realtor and his son in connection with the kidnap of private financier of Chikkamagaluru Tejas Gowda. The case is linked to the suicide of DySP Kallappa Handibag. The arrested are Naveen Shetty, 43, the realtor and his son Ashwin Shetty, 19, both residents of RMV Extension in Sanjaynagar. Tejas Gowda had owed Rs

Mangaluru, Aug 18: The family members of RTI activist Vinayak Panduranga Baliga, who was murdered earlier this year after he exposed alleged misappropriations in a temple, have urged city police to reinvestigate the murder of Mahesh Prabhu, who was killed inside a mutt in the city nearly four years ago. Baliga's sister Harsha Baliga, father Ramachandra Baliga and members of Deshapremi

Udupi, Aug 18: The Udupi district police handed over all documents in the Bhaskar Shetty murder case to a team of CID that arrived here on Thursday. K.T. Balakrishna, Superintendent of Police, said that the CID team came here under the leadership of D.C. Rajappa, Superintendent of Police, CID. The Investigating Officer of the district police in the case, D.P. Suman, handed over all the documents

Mangaluru, Aug 18: A day after a Bharatiya Janata Party worker was beaten to death by a group of cow vigilantes in Udupi, activists of left-wing groups on Thursday staged a protest in Mangaluru demanding stringent action against those who disrupt peace in the society. The protest was organised by Democratic Youth Federation of India and Students' Federation of India, the youth and students wings

Udupi, Aug 18: Former police officer Anupama Shenoy, who once again hit the headlines by releasing the audio tapes of her recorded conversations with a minister and senior police officers, has now taken up the issue of alleged harassment with Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh. Udupi based Shenoy, who resigned as Kudligi DySP nearly two months ago, has complained against Om Prakash, Director