Karnataka

Mangaluru, Aug 25: The Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) and Students Federation of India (SFI) jointly staged a protest on Tuesday against the brutal assault on a Muslim youth by Bajrang Dal activists in the city. Addressing the gathering in front of the Deputy Commissioner’s office in the city, DYFI State president Muneer Katipalla said the police complaint filed by the girl who was

Mangaluru, Aug 25: Hundreds of students from across Dakshina Kannada district on Tuesday staged a massive demonstration under the banner of Campus Front of India in front of Mangaluru City Corporation which houses minority welfare office, protesting against curbing educational scholarship given to minority communities and seeking fulfilments of various demands of student community. The students

Bengaluru, Aug 25: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, who campaigned intensively in the run-up to the Bruhat Bangalore Mahangara Palike (BBMP) elections, on Tuesday owned responsibility for the party’s dismal performance. “I own responsibility for the party’s defeat in the BBMP elections,” he said and took in his stride the poll outcome. The BBMP poll verdict would not become a referendum on the State

New Delhi, Aug 25: The Muslim community has registered a moderate 0.8 per cent growth to touch 17.22 crore in the 10 year period between 2001 and 2011, up from 13.8 crore, while Hindus population showed a decline by 0.7 per cent at 96.63 crore during the period, according to the latest census data on religion. While the census figure on religion was released today, more than four years after

Bengaluru, Aug 25: In a hat-trick of sorts for BJP in civic polls across the country, the party today won control of the IT city's civic body for a second term in the bitterly fought elections, with the outcome coming as a setback to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah. Upsetting Congress plans to wrest control of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) council with an all out offensive, BJP won 100

Mangaluru, Aug 25: A day after she was slapped and humiliated in a crowded marketplace in the coastal city for requesting the Bajrang Dal activists not to assault her senior belonging to another community, the female employee of a supermarket took a shocking U-turn on Tuesday and accused the victim of trying to pull her into his car. Shakir, a 28-year-old Muslim youth working for supermarket at

New Delhi, Aug 25: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday hailed the BJP's winning show in the Bengaluru civic polls, saying people's faith in his party "is humbling and gladdening". "People's continuous faith in the BJP is humbling and gladdening," Modi tweeted as results showed the Bharatiya Janata Party ahead of the Congress in the election. "We are fully committed to fulfilling (the)

Mangaluru, Aug 25: Social activists and feminists across India have denounced the latest Sangh Parivar vigilante attack in Mangaluru where a youth from the minority community was beaten up for allegedly accompanying a Hindu girl. Social activist Saraswati Ghosh dubbed the brutal attack on Muslim youth as 'shocking and unfortunate' and said that the people should instead react with the same force

Bengaluru, Aug 25: Social Democratic Party of India, the political arm of Popular Front of India, which had opened its account in the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) in 2010, managed to win one seat in 2015 too. Mujahid Pasha Buoyed by the victory of some of its candidates in 2013 civic polls and recent gram panchayat polls across Karnataka, the Muslim dominant party had contested for 18

Mangaluru, Aug 25: Activist, social worker and Congress leader Mohammed Badruddin passed away in Bengaluru on Tuesday. He was 54. A member of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC), he had been to state capital ahead of counting of votes in BBMP polls. Family sources said that he travelled to Bengaluru on Monday and stayed in the house of his friend and former MLC Saleem Mohammed. On Tuesday