Karnataka

New Delhi, Jan 16: Former AAP leader Shazia Ilmi on Friday joined the BJP party ahead of crucial Delhi Assembly elections. Shazia Ilmi's induction into the BJP comes a day after former IPS officer and supporter of Arvind Kejriwal, Kiran Bedi joined the party. The former top cop is expected to be projected as the BJP's chief mineral candidate for Delhi. Earlier in the day, she met BJP President

Mangaluru, Jan 16: A minor fire broke out in the main building of District Wenlock Hospital at Mangaluru on Friday, causing panic and confusion among hospital staff and patients in the building. According to eye-witnesses, the fire was caused by a short-circuit in the CT Scan room located in the ground floor close to the entrance of the building at about 11.30 a.m. The fire triggered panic among

Mangaluru, Jan 16: The Pulse Polio immunization programme will be launched state-wide in Karnataka on Sunday, with the state health department making arrangements to set up as many as 32,628 booths across the state to serve the purpose. Addressing a press conference here on Friday, Minister for Health and Family Welfare U T Khader said that the two rounds of the pulse polio programme for 2014-15

Mangalore, Jan 16: To celebrate the birth moth of the final Prophet, the members of the Sunni Students Federation (SSF), organized a massive Milad rally and public gathering in the city on Thursday under the slogan ‘Ilal Habeeb’. Thousands of youths took part in the well-disciplined rally that started at Ambedkar Circle and culminated at Nehru Maidan where a conference was held. Speaking after

Bengaluru, Jan 16: The demand for a dalit chief minister is a new phenomenon and it is being supported by the younger generation in the community, said State Congress president G?Parameshwara. Reacting to the demand by certain Congress leaders for a dalit chief minister, Parameshwara said on Thursday that such demand was not aired when Kharge, Basavalingappa or Ranganath was minister. “But why now

Mangaluru, Jan 16: Shahzad K I and Vinu K Varghese, Yenepoya Physiotherapy College, Yenepoya University, have been selected to represent the Karnataka state football team, which will take part in the 69th Santosh Trophy at Manjery, Malappuram in Kerala. Anvar P A from Yenepoya University too has been selected as first standby in the state team. Vinu has been drafted in as striker, Shahzad will

Mysuru, Jan 16: A police constable who was promoted as head constable didn’t live to celebrate his elevation. He died in a road accident hours after he was informed of his promotion, on Wednesday. Chandrappa (48) was serving as the driver (in constable cadre) for the police van of City Armed Reserve. On Tuesday, he drove to Udupi along with an undertrial at Central Prisons, Mysuru, who was to be

Aboard the Papal Plane, Jan 15: Pope Francis said Thursday there are limits to freedom of expression, especially when it insults or ridicules someone's faith. Francis spoke about the Paris terror attacks while en route to the Philippines, defending free speech as not only a fundamental human right but a duty to speak one's mind for the sake of the common good. But he said there were limits. By way

Mangaluru, Jan 15: Criticizing the Narendra Modi-led NDA government for passing the latest ordinance to amend the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013, former union minister and veteran Congress leader B Janardhan Poojary said that the BJP government was set on ruining the nation's economy and lives of farmers by bringing the

Bengaluru, Jan 15: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has accused the BJP of trying to misuse the Governor's office over the issue of alleged denotification of land in the Arkavathi Layout in Bengaluru. He told reporters here on Wednesday that his government had not denotified land in the Arkavathi Layout. œAll denotifications were done during the BJP government's tenure,  he said. To a