Karnataka

Bengaluru, Mar 22: Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Council K S Eshwarappa said on Monday that Hindus in the State were living under threat, as “anti-national and anti-social” elements operated without fear of law. Demanding the chair to allow a discussion on the murder of BJP worker Kyathamarenahalli Raju in Mysuru recently, Eshwarappa said, “There is no safety for Hindus in the State

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Mangaluru, Mar 22: Dilly-dallying for more than four years to shift the huge Kalasha from Mahaveera Circle at Pumpwell for building a flyover, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) finally shifted it out of that place on Monday night. The Kalasha has been temporarily placed just a few metres away near a police chowki now. With this, the construction of flyover can go on smoothly. The

New Delhi, Mar 22: The Congress high command is not happy with the Siddaramaiah government's decision to set up the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB). According to a senior Congress leader, the high command is of the view that the move is against public opinion, especially civil society - which consider setting up ACB as a diversionary tactics helping those facing corruption charges. “An opinion is

Mangaluru, Mar 22: The State government on Monday told the High Court of Karnataka that A.B. Ibrahim, Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Dakshina Kannada district, was not officiating as the DC under the Karnataka Hindu Religious Institutions and Charitable Endowments Act, 1997 for the district. State Advocate-General Madhusudan R. Naik informed the court that the Additional Deputy Commissioner of the

Udupi, Mar 22: A woman allegedly committed suicide in a house at police quarters at Doddanagudde here on Monday. According to the police, Nandini (22), wife of a first division clerk, Venkatesh, working at the office of the Superintendent of Police, committed suicide by hanging her herself in a room in the quarters between 5.30 a.m. and 6.15 a.m. Both Venkatesh and Nandini had been married for

Mangaluru, Mar 22: The Dakshina Kannada district administration has destroyed about 10 kg of narcotic substances seized in different cases which were worth around Rs. 16 lakh in the grey market. The items included 6.84 kg ganja, 960 g heroine, 950 g brown sugar and 1.13 g charas. The action was in pursuance to direction from different courts. Deputy Commissioner of Excise, Mangaluru, L.A

Bengaluru, Mar 22: Over 1.74 lakh students, who wrote the II Pre-University (PU) chemistry examination (new syllabus) across the State on Monday, received a jolt in the evening when the examination was cancelled by the Department of PU Education (DPUE) after the question paper was found to have been leaked. The date for the re-examination is yet to be decided. The exam was held at 975 centres

Bengaluru, Mar 22: The State government has passed a magisterial order on verification of passport and visas of foreign students, putting the onus on house owners who rent apartments and houses to these students in the State. The government has also asked universities to disbar students if they have failed to renew their visas, said Home Minister G Parameshwara on Monday. House owners and

Bengaluru, Mar 22: A group of about 25 members from a Jain family had a shock of their life on Sunday night when they were served chicken biriyani in a vegetarian restaurant. Some of the unsuspecting members finished it, only to realise later that what they ate was a non-veg dish. In this connection, one of the family members lodged a complaint with the Upparpet police for being cheated at a