Karnataka

Bengaluru, Jan 4: The State government on Monday issued an official gazette notification, making wearing of helmet by pillion riders on two-wheelers mandatory across the State, including Bengaluru City, with immediate effect. But people may breathe easy as the enforcement authorities are not likely to crack the whip against violators for a few days. The helmet rule is applicable to all pillion

Mangaluru, Jan 4: Popular Front of India (PFI) has demanded immediate implementation of Allahabad High Court order regarding the Muzaffarnagar riots to conduct the fair investigation. The demand was pressed during the lawyers’ team of Popular Front submitted the court order to the SSP today at Muzaffarnagar. PFI had set up a legal aid office at Muzaffarnagar for the riot victims in November 2013

Bengaluru, Jan 4: The parents of a girl from Yelahanka Old Town approached police on Sunday alleging that she was killed by her boyfriend who attempted suicide later. The girl, 14, and her boyfriend, 22-year-old Kishore, a driver, consumed poison following what is suspected to be a suicide pact. Sushmitha (name changed) and Kishore wanted to get married but her parents opposed it. Both eloped a

New Delhi, Jan 4: As part of its plan to tighten its grip over Indian society, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is now mulling to launch its Christian wing. The RSS has held meetings with Christian leaders as part of a plan to reach out to the community by setting up an organisation, according to a reliable report. A senior RSS spokesperson confirmed the reports and said that efforts are on

Mysuru, Jan 4: He stopped Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s convoy at Kautilya Circle near Crawford Hall here for 20 seconds on Saturday. The 19-year-old Vinay, a diploma student, did so to draw the attention of Modi towards his ‘Green India’ concept. Son of Kishore, an electrician, and Sunitha, residents of Varakodu on Mysuru-T Narsipur Road, Vinay had readied 25-page draft on his pet project Green

Mangaluru, Jan 4 : Aimed to spread the message of ‘be good - do good' on the occasion of the 153nd birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda, an mega youth campaign Vivek Band-2016 has been organized by Samartha Bharata trust, an organization promoting social volunteering among youth. The campaign starts with the wearing of a wrist band carrying the message ‘be good - do good' on January 12th, 2016

Bengaluru, Jan 4: The body of National Security Guard officer Lt Col Niranjan Kumar, who was martyred in an operation against terrorists at the Pathankot airbase, reached Bengaluru on Monday morning. Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah paid tribute the departed soul at city's BEL Ground. Also, school children and people came to pay their homage. Niranjan’s mortal remains would be taken to his ancestral gome

Mangaluru, Jan 4: S Murugan, the outgoing commissioner of Mangaluru city police, has expressed deep concern over increasing communal intolerance in the coastal city which according to him cannot be tackled by police alone. “Political will is must to curb communalism in the region. Policing along cannot end communal divide,” Mr Murugan told coastaldigest.com after handing over the charge to new

Bengaluru, Jan 4: Christians continued to record the highest sex ratio with the figure increasing from 1,030 in the 2001 Census to 1,049 in the 2011 Census. Although the child sex ratio was also high among Christians in the State, the growth was very marginal and it rose from 961 in 2001 census to 962 in 2011. Economist Sangeeta Kattimani, who compiled these data from the two Census reports and

Mangaluru, Jan 4: The process of issuing gazette notification of validated Wakf property taluk-wise after a survey as per the amended Wakf Act 2013, has begun and it will be completed within four months, according to Karnataka Municipal Administration and Minority Affairs Minister Qamarul Islam. Talking media persons in Kalaburgi, he said that due to shortage of surveyors, the Wakf property survey