Karnataka

Mangaluru, Mar 6: A youth has been arrested on charge of filming a woman on his cell phone while she was taking bath under the limits of Vittla Police Station in Bantwal taluk of Dakshina Kannada district. The police have identified the arrested as Mohammed Shafi alias Gooli Shafi (30), a local resident. Sources from Vittla Police Stations said that the police picked up the youth after a married

Mangaluru, Mar 6: In a festive ceremony, senior district Congress leader Ibrahim Kodichal officially took charge as the chairman of Mangaluru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) which had remained vacant for several months. Two days after the appointment was made by the state government, he took official charge as MUDA chairman from MUDA Commissioner Nazeer at his office in the city on Friday, in

New York, Mar 6: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been named among the 30 most influential people on the internet by Time magazine in a list which also features American television personality and porn star Kim Kardashian and other celebrities.

Chennai, Mar 6: Taking strong exception to the Maharashtra government’s ban on beef, Dravidar Kazhagam president K Veeramani on Thursday said eating habits are the fundamental rights of an individual and no government has a right to decide on them. Describing the move as ‘anti-Constitutional and anti-secular’, he said a majority of the people in the world eat beef and it was a nutritious diet

Mangaluru, Mar 6: Hindu Janajagruti Samiti, Mangaluru will organise a district-level Hindu convention on Sunday to unite Hindutva organisations and leaders to protect Hindu religion and establish a Hindu nation, said Samiti state secretary and state spokesperson of Hindu Mahasabha Dharmendra. Announcing this at a press conference here on Friday, he said that the convention was an attempt to bring

Mumbai, Mar 6: Maharashtra government has said it had reconstituted a high powered committee on the Maharashtra-Karnataka border row. The eight-member panel, headed by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, will comprise senior NCP leader Sharad Pawar and senior state ministers from both BJP and Shiv Sena. Leaders of opposition in State Legislature will also be part of the panel, according to a

Mangaluru, Mar 6: To spread light on the relevance and practicality of caste-based census with respect to social justice among castes in the country, a seminar on ‘Caste Census - Why and How’ was organised by Karnataka Beary Sahitya Academy in collaboration with Talent Research Foundation, at TRF auditorium in the city on Thursday. Inaugurating the seminar, AHINDA district president Vasudev Boloor

Mangaluru, Mar 6: A communal harmony activist in the city has lodged a complaint against Sadhwi Balika Saraswati for making a hate speech during the Virat Hindu Samajotsav recently held at Nehru Maidan. Teenage Sadhwi from Madhya Pradesh was the main speaker at the Samajotsav organized in the pretext of golden jubilee celebration of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad. In a complaint filed with Mangaluru

Bengaluru, Mar 6: The State government will consider whether penalty can be imposed on a builder for violation of norms in construction and formation of layouts, under the regularisation scheme of unauthorised structures in urban areas (popularly known as the Akrama-Sakrama scheme). As per the present rules, the regularisation fee is imposed on the property or the building owner and not on the

Bengaluru, Mar 6: The High Court on Thursday sought to know whether the word 'minority' in terms of linguistic and has been defined by the State government. Hearing the petitions filed by Kodagu Academy of Education and Culture and Citizen Education Society seeking directions from the court to exempt them from allotting 25 percent seats under the Right to Education (RTE)?Act, 2009, Justice B V