Karnataka

New Delhi, Mar 5: Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar, who was arrested for sedition 20 days ago and released recently, has received threats to his life. A few posters have appeared near the Delhi Press Club, offering Rs 11 lakh reward for shooting Kanhaiya down. The posters, viral on social media, bear the name of Adarsh Sharma, president, Purvanchal Sena

New Delhi, Mar 5: Reeling from the fallout of the suicide of Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula and blowback from rural India because of two years of successive drought, the BJP has charted out a series of programmes to address these issues. According to top sources in the party, at a meeting of party general secretaries held in Delhi and presided over by BJP president Amit Shah last week, it was decided

Bhatkal, Mar 5: Life came to a standstill here on Saturday as the coastal district observed a bandh over provocative remaks against Islam made by its MP and BJP leader Anant Kumar Hegde. The Uttara Kannada districl wide bandh call given by Majlis-e-Islah wa Tanzeem and other Muslim organisations evoked good response in the Muslim dominant twon of Bhatkal and few others areas in the district

Kolar/Chikkaballapur/Bengaluru, Mar 5: The Kolar-Chikkaballapur bandh called by various organisations against Thursday's police action on farmers in Bengaluru, was total and peaceful on Friday, barring stray incidents of stone- throwing. Normal life was disrupted as shops and commercial establishments had downed their shutters. Movie halls had suspended shows and there was sparse traffic on roads

Kasaragod, Mar 5: Nisa, a Kerala-based progressive Muslim women's forum, will hold a debate on March 6 on Muslim women's fight for human rights and gender equality. The debate, being held as part of the programmes to mark International Women's Day, will be held at Nalanda Auditorium in Kozhikode at 10 a.m. It will call upon Muslim women to come forward to fight for revision in Muslim personal law

Bengaluru, Mar 5:?A?City court on Friday issued a non-bailable warrant against Ballari MP B Sriramulu in connection with a cheque bounce case. During the hearing of a complaint, the 13th ACMM judge directed the police to produce Sriramulu before the court on March 22. The complainant, L Somashekhkar had claimed that Sriramulu had received Rs 2.96 crore from him on the promise of getting him a

Mangaluru: Ecologic Habitats is all set to launch Transit One, first of the Transit series of innovative theme-based malls, with the foundation stone laying ceremony on Friday November 20 at 5.30 pm in Thokkkottu. This was revealed by P S Mohammed, managing director, Ecologic Habitats at a press meet here on Thursday November 19. The Mangaluru-based real estate development firm 'Ecologic Habitats'

Bengaluru, Mar 5: The Karnataka High Court on Friday ordered issue of notice to liquor baron Vijay Mallya and his defunct Kingfisher Airlines and nine other respondents on a petition filed by bankers, including SBI, seeking his arrest and impounding of his passport for defaulting on loans. The notice, issued by Justice A S Bopanna came even as the Debt Recovery Tribunal reserved its order on one

Bengaluru, Mar 5: Opposition leader in the Assembly Jagadish Shettar on Friday charged that the administration in the State has collapsed completely and “unreasonable” transfer of police officer in Kudligi and arrest of a farmer in Sullia for complaining about frequent power cuts recently were testimony to it. Speaking on the motion of thanks to the Governor's address in the Assembly, Shettar said

Mangaluru, Mar 4: It is the largest marine shell of a sea snail called Australian trumpet. It's one of the attractions at an exhibition of marine shells at the three-day Matsya Mela' which began at TMA Pai International Convention Centre here on Friday. The event was organised jointly by the Karnataka Veterinary, Animal and Fisheries Sciences University, Fisheries College, National Fisheries