Karnataka

Bengaluru, June 23: Discontent today snowballed in the ruling Congress over Karnataka's major ministry revamp as disgruntled party legislators decided to meet shortly to plan their next course of action, keeping the option open of pressing for leadership change. A series of meetings were being held for the past two days by several dropped ministers and ministerial berth aspirants after Chief

Nagpur, Jun 23: Former B-grade film actor and FTII Chairman Gajendra Chauhan today met "father figure" RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat at the Sangh headquarters here for the first time after his appointment to the premier institute kicked up a row last year. "Bhagwatji is a father figure for me and I came here to invite him for my son's marriage," said Chauhan, who spent over half an hour with the RSS

Mumbai, Jun 23: In yet another salvo at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Shiv Sena today said bringing yoga to the centre stage of the world was a praise-worthy effort, but will practising the ancient form of exercise relieve people of the pain of inflation. "Prime Minister Narendra Modi deserves praise for making 130 countries perform yoga. The world bends if somebody makes it do so. Through yoga

Udupi, Jun 23: In what could have been a major catastrophe, a speeding sports utility vehicle overturned and hit a car in which former minister and Kaup MLA Vinay Kumar Sorake was travelling at Ambalpady here on Thursday. The driver and other occupants of the Mhindra Scorpio suffered injuries after it rammed into the road median and overturned on National Highway 66. The Scorpio also hit the front

Mangaluru, Jun 23: Within three weeks after a jewellery store was robbed in BC Road on the outskirts of the city, a special team of Dakshina Kannada district police have nabbed the accused from West Bengal. Sunil, the owner of Apoorva Jewellers at BC Road had lodged a complaint Bantwal Town police station against Pintu Rawat (27), a resident of West Bengal, for allegedly fleeing with nearly 274gm

Bengaluru, Jun 23: A journalism professor at the University of Mysore who had called Union Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani a “low-level actor” who did not deserve to be the HRD minister has been jailed for insulting Sri Ram. B ?P?Mahesh Chandra Guru had allegedly used derogatory words against Sri Ram, during a refresher workshop on Media and Human Rights', held at the UGC-Academic

Kanpur, Jun 23: Clicking a selfie turned out to be fatal for a youth as well as six of his friends, who drowned in the Ganga on Wednesday while trying to save one another, police said. The incident happened when six youths from Juhi area and one Shivam from Colonelganj area of the district had gone to take a bath in the river after rainfall, SSP Shalabh Mathur said. Shivam was clicking a selfie

Bengaluru, Jun 23: A model from the city has been arrested on drug trafficking charges by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB). 26-year-old Darshitmita Gowda, who hails from coastal Karnataka, was arrested under various sections of the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act. According to NCB officers, she was part of a gang supplying drugs to college students and working professionals

Mangaluru, Jun 23: All school vehicles, including the private vehicles transporting schoolchildren, should have a distinct highway yellow colour with a horizontal strip in green colour in the middle all around the vehicle, ruled A?B?Ibrahim, Deputy Commissioner of Dakshina Kannada. Chairing a meeting on the safety of school vehicles here on Wednesday, he directed the region transport and police

Bengaluru, Jun 23: After reshuffling his ministry on Sunday, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday appointed district in-charge ministers. Energy Minister D?K?Shivakumar has been made incharge of the two Vokkaliga-dmoninant districts of Mandya and Ramanagaram. Siddaramaiah may appoint a new district incharge minister for Mandya or Ramanagaram once he fills the vacant cabinet berth in the