Karnataka

Mangalore, Mar 19: New Mangalore Port has successfully handled one giant Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC) at the Single Buoy Mooring (SBM) installed by MRPL. M.T. Humanity carrying 1, 63,000 tonnes of Iranian Mix Crude Oil called at the SPM, which is located 17 kms away from shore on March 18. The entire consignment is imported for MRPL Refinery. This is the largest parcel size of crude oil ever

Bangalore, Mar 19: The jailed People 's Democratic Party (PDP) leader Abdul Nasir Ma 'adany has said that he stood by his decision not to enter electoral politics. At a press conference here on Tuesday, PDP working chairman Poonthura Siraj said Mr Ma 'adany had conveyed this decision to him and other PDP leaders when they had called on him at the Bangalore Parapana Agrahara prison where he is at

Mangalore, Mar 19: Former vice chancellor of Manipal University and former director-professor and dean of Kasturba Medical College Dr B M Hegde conferred the annual PaGo Award for best rural reporting to Suresh D Palli, correspondent of Kannada daily Hosa Digantha, in a simple ceremony held at Press Club here on Wednesday. The annual award is instituted by Dakshina Kannada District Working

Bantwal, Mar 19: Activists of various right-wing organisations laid siege to the Bantwal Town Police Station for over two hours on Tuesday urging to withdraw the FIR against RSS leader Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat. They raised slogans against the police for booking Bhat who delivered hate speech against a particular community during Hindu Sangama programme held at B C Road on March 2. One Aboobaker

Bangalore, Mar 19: Kapil Sibal, Azharuddin, Ajay Maken are in the third list of 58 Congress candidates for the Lok Sabha polls announced on Tuesday evening. Cricketer Mohammed Azharuddin will contest from Tonk-Sawai Madhopur in Rajasthan. The list includes recently-appointed PCC presidents, Sachin Pilot (Ajmer) and Ashok Tanwar (Sirsa), Ajit Jogi from Mahasamund in Chhattisgarh. Suspended Congress

Bangalore, Mar 19: Samajwadi Party 's (SP) lone MLA in the State C P Yogeshwar rejoined the Congress in the presence of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president G Parameshwara at the party office here on Tuesday. Mr Yogeshwar, who began his political career with the Congress, quit the party in 2008 and joined the BJP after B S Yeddyurappa became the Chief

Bangalore, Mar 19: Long-time Congressman C?K?Jaffer Sharief may well be the prize catch for the JD(S) this election season. Sources in the party said that Sharief may opt to contest from Mysore on a JD(S) ticket. However, his family members want him to contest from Bangalore Central, it is said. If this happens, the minorities would drift to a certain extent from the Congress to the JD(S) is the

Ahmedabad, Mar 19: Gujarat riot victim Zakia Jafri on Tuesday filed an appeal against the Ahmedabad Metropolitan Court order accepting closure report of the Special Investigating Team (SIT) that gave a clean chit to Chief Minister Narendra Modi and 59 others for their alleged role in the 2002 riots. Zakia 's husband, former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, was killed when a rioting mob attacked the

New Delhi, Mar 18: Firing a fresh salvo at Narendra Modi, AAP National Convener Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said his decision to enter the electoral fray from Varanasi was not a “symbolic gesture” but to defeat the BJP 's prime ministerial candidate. “Narendra Modi has announced that he will contest from Varanasi. So even I am going to Varanasi. We will ask people there on whether I should contest

Bangalore, Mar 18: Actor-turned-politician and Karnataka Housing Minister Ambareesh, who is undergoing treatment at a hospital in Singapore since March 1, was taken off ventilator support and recovering well. "I will come back home. Your Rebel Star will be back as the Rebel Star. Jai Hind, Jai Karnataka," Ambareesh said in a video message recorded in the hospital. He expressed gratitude to his