Karnataka

Mangaluru, Jul 1: Food and Civil Supplies Minister UT Khader said on Friday that his department was considering issuing Below Poverty Line ration cards to endosulfan victims, people with HIV, cancer patients and those suffering from renal failures. Addressing media persons here on Friday, the minister said that endosulfan victims, people with HIV and those suffering from terminal illnesses should

Mangaluru, Jun 1: Media, which plays a key role in a democratic country, should adopt steps to regulate itself, according to Mangaluru City Police Commissioner M Chandra Sekhar. He was speaking after inaugurating the Press Day programme organised by Dakshina Kannada District Working Journalists' Association, Press Club and Patrika Bhavan Trust at Press Club Hall in the city on Friday. He said that

New Delhi, Jul 1: Government has asked the Law Commission to examine the issue of implementation of a Uniform Civil Code, a move welcomed by the BJP and opposed by the Muslim Majlis and some activists. The Department of Legal Affairs has asked the Commission, a recommendatory body, to submit a report on the issue that has always been dear to BJP and the sangh parivar. The move assumes significance

Ranchi, Jul 1: Jharkhand BJP President Tala Marandi's son Munna Marandi has been accused of sexually exploiting a girl for over two years and then marrying another girl, a minor, this week. A girl has filed a complaint at a court in Godda district alleging that Munna Marandi exploited her sexually for two years and had promised to marry her, and then went back on his word. She alleged that Mr

New Delhi, Jul 1: All establishments, including in private sector, will have to provide 26-week maternity leave to their women employees under a new bill, which the government plans to push in the upcoming Monsoon Session, Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya said today. While there is already a provision of 26-week or six- month maternity leave for the government employees, most private sector

New Delhi, July 1: BJP's firebrand Rajya Sabha MP Dr Subramanian Swamy continues to express his opinion on issues of utmost concern with his 'I care a damn' attitude. Despite Prime Minister Narendra Modi's indirect snub to Swamy, the BJP MP has raised questions over the former's much publicised election slogan 'Achche Din' and said that if discloses the real GDP growth figures it will create a

Abu Dhabi, Jul 1: An Indian expatriate worker from Bengaluru lost her life when the car in which she was travelling from Abu Dhabi to Sharjah met with an accident on Thursday. The victim has been identified as Savitha Thirumalesh (40), who had been working as an HR assistant for Abu Dhabi National Hotels. She is survived by her husband and a 12-year-old son, who reside in Bengaluru. It is learnt

Mangaluru, Jul 1: A few residents of Uchila, Ullal and Kotepura villages of Mangaluru taluk whose houses have been affected by the sea erosion urged the Food and civil supplies minister U T Khader to provide them new houses in a different location instead of spending huge amount of money to dump boulders into the sea every year. When Mr Khader, who is also the local MLA, paid a visit to erosion

Mangaluru, Jul 1: Two local leaders of Bharatiya Janata Party including a corporator have been reportedly caught red-handed while smuggling a stolen cow at Krishnapur near Surathkal on the outskirts of the city. According to a report published in Jayakirana, a Mangaluru based Kannada eveninger on Thursday, the incident took place on Saturday, but it came to light belatedly. The same report was

Udupi, Jul 1: A Dalit leader has urged Pejawar mutt chief Vishwesha Thirtha Swami to lead a campaign demanding Siddaramaiah-led Congress government clear the anti-superstition bill in the coming Assembly session itself. Lakshminarayan Nagawar, State co-convener of the Dalit Sangharsh Samiti (Nagawar faction) in a press meet on Thursday, he said that the DSS favoured such a bill that prohibits the