Karnataka

Mangaluru, Nov 24: Health and Family Welfare Minister U T Khader has deputy commissioners have been authorized to appoint retired specialist doctors aged between 60 and 65 years on contract basis in government hospitals in their jurisdictions in Karnataka. Speaking to media persons in the city on Monday the minister said that the decision intents address the shortage of specialist doctors. “Many

Mangaluru, Nov 24: Veteran Congress leader and former union minister B Janardhana Poojary has said that excess activism like organizing kiss fest' in protest against moral policing may lead to greater problems in future. The remarks came after Bengaluru city police commissioner M N Reddi warned that no individual or organisation opposing the Kiss of Love event – proposed to be held on November 30

Muzaffarnagar, Nov 24: One more accused has been arrested in connection with gang-rape cases during the communal riots here last year, raising the number of arrested accused to 19, police said on Monday. The accused identified as Subhash was arrested yesterday and court has initiated attachment proceedings against him, they said. The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the riots had found the

Bengaluru, Nov 24: After 18 months, boards and corporations in the state finally got chairpersons on Monday with the Siddaramaiah government appointing Congress leaders and cadres to these statutory bodies. The appointments had been hanging fire due to differences between the chief minister and KPCC president G Parameshwara over names for the posts. There was no formal release of the list of names

Mysuru: Nov 24: Home Minister K?J?George said that he knew the plight of jail inmates as he had spent three days in a prison nearly 45 years ago. Addressing the inmates of the Central Prisons Mysuru, here, on Sunday, after opening the PG?Study Centre of the Karnataka State Open University and launching a handicrafts camp using silk, organised by Anthahakarana organisation and Sericulture

Patna, Nov 24: A senior state BJP leader, Srikant Bharti was shot dead in Bihar's Siwan district, triggering violent protests on Monday by his supporters, police said. Bharti was killed by unidentified men on Sunday night when he was returning from a marriage party. "Hundreds of supporters of the murdered leader, mostly BJP local leaders and workers, blocked roads and burnt tyres. They also raised

Mangaluru, Nov 24: Unidentified burglars gained entry into a jewellery shop after drilling a hole through a wall and robbed gold ornaments and cash in the intervening night of Sunday and Monday in the city. Police said that the thieves who first broke into an adjacent saloon drilled a hole on the wall to penetrate into the Shilpa Jewellers' located on Kadri Road, Manglauru. Using gas cutter, the

Mangaluru, Nov 24: In an indirect advice to the Hindutva activists to take law into their hands, Udupi-Chikkamagaluru MP Shobha Karandlaje advocated the use of whip (chaati) to deal with those who take away “Our” cattle and molest “Our” women! Speaking at Kesard Onju Dina' programme organized by Hindu Seva Sangah as part of Tulu Nadad Krishi Kranti at Brahmarakootlu near here, Ms Karandlaje

Bhatkal, Nov 24: Defence minister Manohar Parrikar has dubbed Karnataka's coastal town of Bhatkal as a landing point of smugglers. “Over 30 years ago, Goa was considered as a landing point for smugglers and now Bhatkal is considered as one,” said Mr Parrikar said addressing Navy personnel at the inauguration of the Information Management and Analysis centre (IMAC) of Navy in Haryana. On coastal

New Delhi, Nov 24: The Trinamool Congress has called national security adviser Ajit Doval a known RSS sympathizer and revealed that the Burdwan blast was a part of a "devious" master gameplan of the BJP that was "conceived, drafted and approved by RSS". "The NSA is a known RSS sympathizer, these plans are hatched at RSS headquarters," TMC leader Derek O'Brien said on Sunday reacting to Arun