Karnataka

Hassan, Sep 1: In a shocking incident, a woman committed suicide after throwing all her five children into a tank at Madanahalli, near Javagal, in Arasikere taluk of Hassan district. However, two of her daughters survived the ordeal miraculously. Indramma, the mother, was upset after a quarrel with her husband, said the police. So she took her children to the tank in the village and dropped them

Bengaluru: Sep 1: The Karnataka High Court has directed former union minister C K Jaffer Sharief, one of the shareholders in Amanath Co-operative Bank Ltd (ACB), to pay Rs 43 crore to the High Court registry within two weeks towards the amount to be deposited for revival of the bank. Justice S Abdul Nazeer passed the order hearing the petition filed by Masjid and Madrasa Arabia Waliullah seeking

Udupi, Sep 1: Two teachers from Udupi district have been chosen for the national best teacher award. They are Ashok Kumar Shetty, headmaster of Srinikethana High School at Matapady village near Brahmavar and Vasanthi N., headmistress at Gurukula Aided Higher Primary School at Mala village in Karkala taluk. They would receive the award from President Pranab Mukherjee at Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi

Mysuru: Sep 1: Security has been tightened at writer K S Bhagawan’s residence here in the wake of a Twitter comment that after M M Kalburgi, a similar fate awaited him. “It was U R Ananthamurthy, now M M Kalburgi and next it will be writer K S Bhagawan”, says a Twitter comment posted by a handler in Dakshina Kannada. However, it has to be recalled here that Ananthamurthy died naturally due to age

Dharwad: Sep 1: The city bid a tearful adieu to scholar M M Kalburgi on Monday as his mortal remains were laid to rest on the Karnatak University premises with full State honours. Prof Kalburgi was shot dead by an unidentified man at his residence in Kalyan Nagar in the city on Sunday morning. A number of academicians, elected representatives, political leaders, teaching and non-teaching staff of

Bengaluru/Dharwad, Aug 31: The Karnataka government today decided to hand over to CBI the probe into the murder of noted Kannada progressive thinker and scholar M M Kalburgi even as his body was laid to rest with full state honours. The state Cabinet took the decision to refer the case to the central agency, a day after the 77-year-old vocal and outspoken rationalist fell to the bullets of two

Mangaluru, Aug 31: A Bajrang Dal activist from Bantwal taluk in the coastal district of Dakshina Kannada was arrested by police a day after he openly justified the assassination of a veteran scholar of Karnataka and issued a veiled terror attack threat against another rationalist thinker. Bhuvith Shetty, who had been arrested in the past for vigilante attack under the pretext of cattle

Mangaluru, Aug 31: The Tulunada Rakshana Vedike began its agitations against the Nethravati River diversion project on Monday with prayers in a temple, a dargah and a church in the coastal city. A special prayer was held at the Mangaladevi temple at 11 a.m. on against the project. Leaders of the Vedike and other likeminded activists were present. Later, special prayers were at Hazrath Saidani Bibi

Muzaffarnagar (UP), Aug 31: BJP MP Yogi Adityanath, who often stokes controversy with his remarks, has said that "high" fertility rate among Muslims could lead to demographic imbalance and cited the recently released Census data. "The comparatively high fertility rate among Muslims will cause a dangerous demographic imbalance," he said while addressing a gathering at Yog Sadhna Yashvir Ashram at

Bengaluru, Aug 31: A CID probe was today announced by the Karnataka Chief Minister into the murder of progressive Kannada thinker and scholar M M Kalburgi at his residence at Dharwad in north Karnataka. "We have decided to hand over the case to CID.... This incident should not have happened. It is highly condemnable," Chief Minister Siddaramaiah told reporters here, a day after Kalaburgi was shot