Karnataka

New Delhi, Oct 13: Police officer turned BJP MP Satyapal Singh today kicked up a row with his remarks calling Dadri lynching a "small incident", evoking strong reactions from Opposition parties, which said it was a reflection of the party's "polarisation" strategy. "As far as a small incident like Dadri is concerned, our country's democratic atmosphere is fully competent to handle. Our country is

New Delhi, Oct 13: Music composer A R Rahman, Sunni cleric AP Ustad, industrialist Azim Premji, actors Shabana Azmi and Aamir Khan have made it to the list of 500 Most Influential Muslims In The World this year. AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi also made it to the list. Other Indians who have made it to the list include religious scholars and spiritual leaders. Though India has world's second largest

Mangaluru, Oct 13: Criticism and debate on the Yettinahole project in the public sphere is not appropriate, according to BJP leader and union minister DV Sandanada Gowda. Mr Gowda, who had formally given approval to the controversial project during his tenure as chief minister of Karnataka, argued that Nethravati river diversion and Yettinahole project are not the same. Speaking to reporters

Kolkata, Oct 13: India’s powerful Hindutva group wants minority Muslims and Christians to accept that India is a nation of Hindus, and is pushing some of them to convert. An election in the volatile state of West Bengal has become a prime target in its game plan. The group's strategy: To spread its Hindu-first ideology to all corners of India by propelling the ruling party of Prime Minister

Moodbidri, Oct 13: Four days after flower merchant and Bajrang Dal member Prashanth Poojary was killed by miscreants, Mangaluru CCB police have made no headway in the murder case. However, it is learnt that the police investigation has quickened and the police have picked up few local youth in Moodbidri on suspicion for questioning. As per the directions of Mangaluru City Police Commissioner S

New Delhi, Oct 13: In a dramatic incident, a Mumbai- based model allegedly whipped out a gun at a retail outlet in Karol Bagh here to thwart two men whom she claimed had tried to molest her, police said. The incident was reported at around 9 AM when the woman, on a visit to Delhi, had gone with her friends to the outlet near Karol Bagh Metro station. The episode unfolded at the billing counter

Mangaluru, Oct 13: The police have arrested a youth who was accused of sexually abusing a 16-year-old speech impaired girl at her residence near Uppala in September. Suresh, 30, a resident of Sharada Nagar, near Uppala, was rounded up from a hideout in neighbouring Karnataka by a Crime Branch team headed by Dy.SP. Premaraj on Monday. The accused was brought here late Monday evening, the police

Ballari, Oct 13: Rahamat Tarikeri, noted writer and professor, Department of Kannada, Kannada University, Hampi, has returned his Sahitya Akademi award in protest against the killing of scholar M.M. Kalburgi and rationalists Narendra Dabholkar and Govind Pansare. In a letter addressed to the President of the Akademi, Mr. Tarikeri said. “It is sad that the Sahitya Akademi has not condemned the

Bengaluru, Oct 13: JD(S) MP and former prime minister H D Deve Gowda on Monday urged writers, leftist thinkers and social activists not to return any awards conferred on them in protest against the killing of a person at Dadri in Uttar Pradesh for eating beef and the murder of Kannada scholar M M Kalburgi recently. Instead, they should fight together to uphold the secular principles and dignity of

New Delhi, Oct 13: Karnataka on Monday urged the Centre to release Rs 500 crore immediately to take up relief programmes in drought-hit areas. Agriculture Minister Krishna Byregowda, in his meeting with Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh here requested that if the Centre released some amount immediately it would help the states to take up some relief works to mitigate the situation. Earlier, the