Karnataka

Mangaluru, Nov 10: Customs officials at Mangaluru International Airport have seized from a passenger 0.93 kg of gold hidden in a speaker in the form of a small cylindrical rod. It is valued at Rs. 24.25 lakh. M. Subramaniyam, Commissioner, Customs, Mangaluru, said in a release that a speaker brought by a passenger who arrived from Dubai by an Air India Express flight on November 3 was taken for

New Delhi: Nov 10: The Congress on Monday projected Rahul Gandhi as the architect of the victory of the Grand Alliance in Bihar and wanted him to become the party president. “There is a feeling among Congress workers that Rahul Gandhi should take over as party president,” AICC General Secretary C P Joshi said at the AICC briefing here. Joshi credited Rahul’s thinking and farsightedness in

Bengaluru: Nov 10: The CCB sleuths ave arrested a former BPO professional for selling banned narcotic substances through Facebook.

Kasaragod, Nov 9: In the light of sporadic incidents of clashes reported from across the district in the aftermath of the recent local bodies’ polls, authorities here on Monday clamped prohibitory orders for three days on select police station limits. The orders under the provisions of the Kerala Police Act were promulgated in the Hosdurg, Bekal, Kumbla, and Manjeswram police station limits, the

Mangaluru, Nov 9: “Owing to the relentless support of Congress ministers and MLAs to illegal activities in Dakshina Kannada district, the situation has escalated to a point that an activist was murdered in broad daylight,” said BJP leader and MLC Capt Ganesh Karnik. Addressing the gathering at a protest organised by Mangaluru unit of BJP against the decline of law and order system in Dakshina

Managluru, Nov 9: In a gut-wrenching tragedy, a 15-year-old boy was killed after a speeding tempo rammed into a motorbike under the limits of Ullal Police Station in Mangaluru taluk on Monday. The victim has been identified as Ibrahim Khaleel (15), son of Aboobakar, a resident of Someshwar Uchil. He was a Class 10 student at Falah High School in Kinya. The tragedy occurred near Kinya village, when

Bengaluru, Nov 9: The Opposition BJP has announced the boycott of Karnataka government's birth anniversary celebrations of the 18th century legendary king Tipu Sultan tomorrow, stating that the king was a "religious bigot". "It's a total boycott on our part, no public representative from our party at any level should participate in the official function," state BJP President Prahlad Joshi said

New Delhi, Nov 9: Hindutva veteran and former union minister Arun Shourie has revealed that he has been the target of severe abuse online by BJP supporters ever since he turned a critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Mr Shourie, a one-time admirer of Mr Modi, also said that the BJP supporters did not even spare his son, who has cerebral palsy. "If you gave me an opportunity to read the kind of

Mangaluru, Nov 9: Reacting to the landslide victory of Grand Alliance in Bihar Assembly polls, veteran Congress leader B Janardhan Poojary said that the Bihar elections result was a lesson not only for Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, but for all political parties and chief ministers of all states in the country. Addressing a press conference at DK district Congress

Patna, Nov 9: The number of Muslim members in Bihar Legislative Assembly has increased from 19 to 25 while the Janata Dal United led Grand Alliance registered a landslide victory against NDA in the recent polls. Out of the 24 newly elected Muslim MLAs 12 are from Lalu Prasad Yadav’s RJD. Six Muslim candidates from Congress, five from JDU and one from CPI (ML) have entered the Assembly. Several