Karnataka

Mangalore/Chikmagalur, Aug 23: Karnataka Police have registered a case against alleged BJP and Hindu Jagarana Vedike activists who burst crackers to "celebrate" the death of famed writer UR Ananthamurthy. A case was registered by the Mudigere police in Chikmagalur on Saturday against unidentified BJP and Hindu Jagarana Vedike activists under sections of the IPC relating to rioting, causing public

Mangalore, Aug 23: Officials of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), Mangalore have managed to nab the prime accused in connection with the red sandalwood smuggling case on Friday. The arrested has been identified as Hashim (39), from Kuthuparamba in Kannur district in Kerala. Hashim, who is the joint director of a Bangalore-based company Berakah Excim, was nabbed at an apartment located in

Mangalore, Aug 23: After the city witnessed a few youth purported to be Hindutva activists indulging in bursting crackers and celebrating the untimely death of Jnanapith awardee U R Ananthamurthy on Friday, it sparked outrage among several people in the society including academicians and scholars, who voiced their displeasure on social networking sites. Reacting to the celebration by Hindutva

Mandya, Aug 23: Two women in their early twenties allegedly committed suicide by jumping into the KRS Right Bank Canal near Majjigepura in the district today, police said. The bodies of the two women, identified as Pavitra (22) and Jayanti (22), who were friends hailing from different villages, have been recovered, police said. The two, who left their homes yesterday morning, are suspected to have

Mangalore, Aug 23: A person, who blackmailed a girl after she refused his marriage proposal, has been arrested by Surathkal police on Friday. The man met the girl through Facebook. The accused Nizamuddin, 24, of Nehrunagar, Bantwal, has got to know the girl, 22, from his community at Krishnapura. After six months when Nizamuddin put forth the proposal to marry her, she refused as she was engaged

Kaup, Aug 23: When officials from the Department of Mines and Geology arrived at Padoor in Udupi taluk on Thursday to conduct a survey with a view of setting up a stone crusher unit in the area, they were forced to return from the place by the villagers who did not allow them to conduct the survey. Earlier, huge boulders had accumulated in Padoor which were found during the time when a crude oil

Dr U R Ananthamurthy, Jnanpith award-winning Kannada writer, English teacher, Kottayam University vice chancellor, who played multiple other roles during his illustrious career, was one of contemporary India's outspoken, fearless and expressive writers. Having consciously veered away from writing in English and started writing in his mother tongue Kannada, he declared, “It is not possible to be so

New Delhi, Aug 23: The Supreme Court has further extended the bail period of Kerala's Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader Abdul Nasir Ma'adany for four weeks, rejecting the Karnataka government's contention that he was trying to “intimidate” witnesses by organising a public meeting in Bangalore. A bench of Justices J Chelameswar and A K Sikri allowed Ma'adany's plea noting that he has so far not

Mysore, Aug 23: The South Western Railway (SWR), in its efforts to provide more facilities for people, will introduce Wi-Fi facility in four trains, on a pilot basis. Addressing a press meet here on Friday, SWR?Divisional Railway Manager Rajkumar Lal said that they were in talks with Airtel and Vodafone to provide the facility.“The facility will be introduced in Chamundi, Tipu, Bangalore-Dharwad

Mangalore/Chikmagalur, Aug 22:?In a bizzare turn of events, members of a few Hindu organisations celebrated the death of Jnanapith awardee U?R?Ananthamurthy, by bursting crackers in Mangalore and Chikmagalur. The city of Mangalore had witnessed protests when Ananthamurthy had said that he won't live in India if Modi became the prime minister. Bajrang Dal district Suraksha Pramukh Puneeth Kottari