Karnataka

Mysuru, Apr 9: The Imam of the grand mosque of Makkah has called upon the Muslims in the country to rise above the community' and love fellow human beings as preached by Islam. Delivering the Friday sermon before a mammoth gathering at the Eidgah in Rajiv Nagar in Mysuru, Sheikh Saleh bin Muhammad Al Taleb said Muslims should love and meet the needs of other human beings without any discrimination

New Delhi, Apr 9: BJP today hit back at Congress over its "tainted" leaders charge, saying the party whose leadership is out on bail in a case of alleged fraud and ran a "corrupt" regime for ten years has no moral right to talk of corruption. The party claimed that the court has given a clean chit to former Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa and Congress should not make "baseless"

Osmanabad: Over the last six months, Laxman Ritapure lost ten of his cattle. Four cows, four bullocks and two calves. As Marathwada's searing drought lengthened into a second year, he ran out of water and fodder to feed them. In this parched eight-district region where the drought has affected every single village, the beef ban which was enacted a year ago has come as a double whammy for farmers

New Delhi, Apr 9: A local court at Rohtak has asked the police to probe hate speech allegations against controversial Yoga guru Baba Ramdev, a day after a local Congress leader moved an application against him in the court. Congress leader Subhash Batra had sought Ramdev be booked for saying that he would behead lakhs of those who did not chant Bharat Mata ki Jai' if the law permitted him to

New Delhi, Apr 9: A 51-year-old Uber cab driver was killed allegedly by two passengers, both minors, in west Delhi's Mundka area for daring to retort to a joke involving the name of their native district. The mobile phone used for booking the cab helped apprehend the suspects a day after the murder that took place in West Delhi's Mundka. Identified as 50-year-old Kuldeep Thakur, the dead driver

Kasaragod, Apr 9: Unidentified miscreants set afire to the house of Ajayakumar Nellikkat, BJP rebel councillor of Kanhangad municipality, near here partially damaging the building and a few pieces of furniture kept in the bedroom. The fire in the uninhabited house, located at Kalyan Road, was noticed on Friday morning. The Hosdurg police have registered a case in connection with incident. The

Bengaluru, Apr 8: A senior professor from a prestigious institution in Bangaluru has landed in a controversy after he reprimanded one of his female students for entering classroom without dressing “properly”. Prof V Nagaraj, who has nearly three decades of experience, had never expected that the girl students of the National Law School of India University would revolt against him for his comments

Bengaluru, Apr 8: Newly-appointed BJP Karnataka chief B S Yeddyurappa today asserted that his main task would be to uproot the "corrupt" Congress regime from the state. The former state chief minister, who was till now discharging his duty as BJP Vice-President, became a frontrunner to assume the charge as the state party president, after the Supreme Court declined to intervene and lift a

Mangaluru, Apr 8: In a shocking incident, a young journalist died of cardiac arrest on Charmadi Ghat on the outskirts of the city on Friday. The deceased is Haimad Husain, a native of Raichur, who was working for Prajavani Kannada daily as a reporter-cum-sub editor in Mangaluru. 28-year-old Husain was on a study trip to Charmadi ghat along with his journalist friends from Mangaluru as it was a

New Delhi, Apr 8: BS Yeddyurappa has been appointed as the new chief of the Karnataka unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) while Keshav Prasad Maurya is the new party chief in UP. Yeddyurappa is former chief minister of Karnataka and is currently the national vice president of the BJP. Both Yeddyurappa and Maurya are Lok Sabha members. The current president of Karnataka unit of BJP is Pralhad