Karnataka

Mumbai, Jan 29: Bollywood dreamgirl Hema Malini's plans to start a dance academy on a plot of land in Mumbai's Andheri area hit a roadblock on Thursday, as an RTI activist accused her of land-grabbing. Exactly a month ago, the Maharashtra government had allotted a prime 2,000-square-metre plot to the Bharatiya Janata Party Lok Sabha member in the suburban upmarket Oshiwara area for her proposed

Bengaluru, Jan 29: The High Court on Thursday dismissed a petition filed by former minister Katta Subramanya Naidu’s wife K Sowbhagya questioning the constitutional validity of some sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002, and subsequent amendments made to the law in 2005, 2009 and 2012. Justice Anand Byrareddy also dismissed her petition for quashing of an order issued by the

Mysuru, Jan 29: A professor at the University of Mysore has called Union Human Resources Development Minister Smriti Irani a “low-level actor” who did not deserve to be the HRD minister. Delivering a talk during ‘Vycharika Kidi’, a programme to commemorate the death of PhD scholar V Rohith, and a session on ‘Condition of dalit, backward, minority students in universities’ organised by Dalit

Bengaluru, Jan 29: Ten people were killed and several injured in three separate incidents in the State. Five members of a family were killed on the spot and nine persons were injured when a Tempo Traveller rammed into a lorry parked on National Highway 50 near Mydaneri cross in Yelburga taluk (Koppal district) late on Wednesday night. The deceased have been identified as Madina (50), her son

Bengaluru, Jan 29: Bengaluru Development Minister K J George might have asserted that he was not a telephone operator to take phone calls of people who try to reach him. But his government appears to have rendered heads of departments, district and taluk-level officials exactly that. The Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms (DPAR) has recently made it mandatory for district and taluk

Udupi, Jan 28: A final year B.E. student of NMAM Institute of Technology was killed when a van collided against his motorbike at Nitte near Karkala in Udupi district on Thursday. According to the Karkala Rural Police, Moon Rajput (23), a student of eighth semester of information science from Ropar in Punjab, was driving his motorbike from Nitte to Karkala, when an oncoming van from Karkala to

Kasaragod, Jan 28: Work on the government medical college hospital, the first of its kind in the district, formally commenced near Badiadukka on Thursday. Work on the academic block was inaugurated by N.A. Nellikkunnu, MLA, at a function presided over by district panchayat president A.G.C. Basheer at the proposed site at Ukkinadukka. The institution would be able to enrol medical students in two

Mangaluru, Jan 28: A two-day intercollegiate cricket tournament for women began on Thursday at the sports ground of St Agnes College, Mangaluru. The Mangalore University level tournament is being organized by the Department of Physical Education of the University in association with the St Agnes College. Mrunali Sachin Shetty, black belt 3rd dan and international gold medalist inaugurated the

New Delhi, Jan 28: The opening of Ram Janmabhoomi temple site in Ayodhya was an "error of judgement" by Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and the demolition of Babri Masjid an act of "absolute perfidy" that destroyed India's image, President Pranab Mukherjee has said in his memoir released today. "The opening of the Ram Janmabhoomi temple site on 1 February 1986 was perhaps another error of judgement

Bengaluru, Jan 28: Rizwan Arshad, President, Karnataka Pradesh Youth Congress Committee, has said that he would not betray Congress party by campaigning against CK Jaffer Sharief’s grandson Abdul Rahman Sharief, who is contesting from Hebbal assembly constituency in looming bypolls. Along with CM Siddaramiah, Mr Arshad had reportedly lobbied very hard with party bigwigs to get the ticket for