Karnataka

Bengaluru,Mar 3: The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has allotted 39 guntas of land to Janata Dal (Secular) to construct its head office in Bengaluru. The land is located on Platform Road in Seshadripuram near Krishna Flour Mills. JD(S)?national?president and former prime minister H?D?Deve Gowda performed the groundbreaking ceremony for the new party office on Monday. Addressing the

Bengaluru, Mar 3: A software engineer with a leading IT firm in the City was caught by alert residents minutes after he stabbed his friend’s wife to death at her flat in Domlur on Monday afternoon. Basudev Jena, 37, from Jagatsinghpur village in Odisha, works with IT firm Mindtree here. The police said Jena tried to loot valuables from the house of the victim, 35-year-old Prachi, to clear his

New Delhi, Mar 2: In a shocking comment, one of the convicts of the December 16, 2012 gang rape on a moving bus in Delhi, has blamed the 23-year-old woman for the fatal sexual assault on her. Mukesh Singh, one of the convicts in the gang rape case said women who go out at night had only themselves to blame if they attracted the attention of molesters. In an interview from jail for a BBC

Hyderabad, Mar 2: Stoking a controversy, senior MIM leader Akbaruddin Owaisi today termed the RSS as a "club of bachelors" and said that those who advocate producing more children have no right to say so as they themselves are not married. Owaisi asked all Muslims to be united while maintaining that his party would fight against "communal politics". Without naming BJP leader Sakshi Maharaj who had

Mangaluru, Mar 2: A case has been registered in Pandeshwar police station in the city against an online commenter for abusing Jesus Christ and Christian beliefs on a news portal. The complaint was lodged on Monday by Christian community leaders Roy Castelino, Fr. JB Crasta, Stany Alvares, Sheldon Crasta and ICYM director Fr. Ronald D'souza. It is stated in the complaint that a person named Shri

Dehradun, Mar 2: Suggesting that films starring Bollywood actors Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan and Salman Khan are spreading a culture of violence, BJP MP Sadhvi Prachi advised youngsters not to idolise the triumvirate. Speaking at a programme of Vishwa Hindu Parishad here yesterday, the Sadhvi, known for stoking controversies by her statements, said once she had been to a programme in Meerut where

Mangaluru, Mar 2: The authorities decided to go for a temporary solution prevent accidents at Nanthoor junction in the city, even as the National Highway Authority of India is awaiting the Centre’s nod for a permanent solution, i.e. construction of an underpass. Three days after a ghastly road mishap involving three vehicles claimed three lives and injured three others at the notorious junction

Mangaluru, Mar 2: The institutions should impart value based quality education to its students for their all round performance, said Mangaluru City South MLA J R Lobo. Addressing the students as a chief guest on the annual day celebrations of Shree Devi Group of Colleges held on Monday at Loyola Hall in the city, he said that the primary aim and objective of the students should be to gain vast

Mangaluru, Mar 2: An expatriate worker returning home to Uppinangady in Dakshina Kannada district from Saudi Arabia went missing after he landed at an international Airport in Mumbai in Mumbai recently. Family members and police said that 25-year-old Safwan has mysteriously gone missing ever since he arrived at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport from Riyadh on February 22. According to his

Mangaluru, Mar 2: The Mangaluru police have admitted that Sadhwi Balika Saraswati, the main speaker at Virat Hindu Samajotsav held at Nehru Maidan in the city, made apparent attempts to communally provoke the mob through her speech. S Murugan, the commissioner of police, Mangaluru City Commissionerate, stated that Sadhwi’s speech was provocative and dangerous. He said that the police are thinking