Karnataka

Kasaragod, Feb 7: Busting a major illegal sand-mining operation, a team of officials seized 10 boats engaged in the flourishing business in the river basins around the town. On a tip-off received by the police, a team of Coastal police, Port and Revenue officials impounded the boats from Nellikkunnu, Pallam, Thuruthi and Bangode localities on Saturday. Acting swift on the inputs from

Bengaluru, Feb 7: The State BJP?on Saturday once again trained its guns on Dinesh Amin Mattu, media advisor to the chief minister, stating that he should have been arrested for “indirectly supporting terrorists”. Speaking to reporters after the launch of the party manifesto for the zilla and taluk panchayat polls, BJP?State president Pralhad Joshi said Mattu was giving “communal colour” to

Bengaluru, Feb 7: The State BJP, in its manifesto for the zilla and taluk panchayat polls, has sought to give a thrust to capacity building at the local bodies level and also take the NDA model of development to the grassroots. Launched in the presence of State leaders in Bengaluru on Saturday, the manifesto also lists priorities across 20 sectors, including administration, social welfare

Mysuru, Feb 7: At a time when the?Congress top brass in the?State is putting up a massive show of unity ahead of the local body elections, former Union minister Janardhan Poojary struck a discordant note, much to the embarrassment of leaders including?Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, Congress Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha M?Mallikarjun Kharge and Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC)

Bengaluru, Feb 6: The Karnataka government has suspended another senior police official in connection with the alleged assault and stripping of a Tanzanian woman student here, even as African students staged a rally over the incident today. Assistant Commissioner of Police A N Pise of Yeshwanthpur Division has been suspended for dereliction of duty, Police Commissioner N S Megharikh said, a day

Mangaluru, Feb 6: In a successful operation, the sleuths of excise department raided a house at Jalligudde in the city and seized a huge quantity of ganja besides arresting three youths on Saturday. The arrested ganja peddlers have been identified as Chandu alias Venkatesh from Jalligudde, Avinash from Padil and Naufal from Jalligudde. A press release issued by the department said that it had

New Delhi, Feb 6: Even as the media reports on Indian born South African cricket star Hashim Amla turning down an interview because a female journalist was “underdressed” went viral, he took to the twitter to rubbish the ‘baseless report’. The report carried by a few reputed Indian news agencies on Saturday claimed that Hashim Amla requested that an Indian reporter change her clothing before he

Mangaluru, Feb 6: BA Vivek Rai, Kannada thinker and former vice chancellor of Hampi Kannada university on Saturday released first Beary calendar published by the Karnataka Beary Sahitya Academy. Speaking on the occasion Mr Rai called the calendar a symbol of communal harmony as it gives information above religious and cultural festivals of all religions and communities in coastal Karnataka. On the

New Delhi, Feb 6: A cleric has been arrested by NIA officials on suspicion that he might be planning terror attacks in the country. Abdus Sami Qasmi, a resident of Seelampur here, was arrested from Uttar Pradesh's Hardoi district. He has been arrested as part of an ongoing investigation into the conspiracy to form a terror organisation and to launch terror attacks in the country, NIA officials

Patna, Feb 6: In an inspiring tale of triumph against adversities, a final-year student of IIT Kharagpur, who is the son of a welder in Bihar, has bagged a job with US-based Microsoft with an annual starting salary of Rs 1.02 crore. 21-year-old Vatsalya Singh Chauhan, who bagged the dream job, hails from Khagariya village in the eastern state where his father runs a small welding workshop. IIT