Karnataka

Mangalore, Nov 8: The Friday prayers were offered at Melangadi Mohiuddin New Masjid, near Ullal Central Masjid, amidst police protection despite the confusions existing between two factions here. The police were deployed in the Masjid premises from morning itself. The devotees who turned up at the Masjid early in the morning for the prayers did not leave the Masjid till the Juma prayers were

Mangalore, Nov 8: With an eye on the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, the Dakshina Kannada BJP Yuva Morcha organised its first district party workers' meeting at the BJP office here on Friday. Mangalore MP Nalin Kumar Kateel inaugurating the meet said that the Congress-led state government has implemented'shaadi bhagya' scheme to grab the votes of the minorities. He also criticised the anti

Mangalore, Nov 8: One of the two terrorists who had kept three persons as captives in a under construction building near Rozario school was gunned down by the Centre for Counter Terrorism (CCT) personnel, Bangalore with the help of local police. The captives were successfully released by the team of police, thereby foiling the plans of the terrorists. While the scenes of the operation went on

Malappuram, Nov 8: Abdusamad Samadani, Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) legislator suffered a stab wound Friday after a person attacked him with a knife at his home. Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) legislator Abdusamad Samadani suffered a stab wound Friday after a person attacked him with a knife at his home. IUML Lok Sabha member E.T.Mohammed Basheer told reporters the injury is not serious

Mangalore, Nov 8: An expectant woman who was being rushed to the hospital owing to labor pain in 108 ambulance delivered a healthy baby girl on the way, on Wednesday evening. Resident of Koncharu Badriyanagar, near Bajpe, Nushrath started having labor pain on Wednesday night. While her family called an ambulance to take her to Lady Goschen Hospital, at about 12.40 am, she delivered the baby on the

Mangalore, Nov 8: Members of Karnataka Prantha Raitha Sangha (KPRS) staged a protest in front of DC office on Thursday against the'callous' attitude of the state government in granting them land rights. The protest was a part of a state-wide two-day protest to demand land rights to farmers and daily-wage labourers who have “encroached” government land, implementation of housing schemes for

Mangalore, Nov 8: Students Federation of India (SFI) staged a stir demanding CBI probe into all the rape, murder and unnatural death cases that have occurred in Ujire police station limits from 1986 to 2012. Madhuri Bolar of SFI Women's wing addressing the protesters during a rally outside DC's office on Thursday said that a woman was found dead in Ujire in 1987 under suspicious circumstances and

Bangalore, Nov 8: As many as 35 passengers had a miraculous escape as they alighted in time from a Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation?luxury bus which caught fire at Gorguntepalya on Thursday evening. The'Vaibhav' bus was on its way to the City from Hassan. The bus reached Gorguntepalya on Tumkur Road at around 5.30 pm and the driver Yusuf Ali Sharif halted the bus at the stop. The

Bangalore, Nov 7: We will do our best to oppose this proposed bill. We will not allow the session to run, if the government tables it in both Houses, says Prahlad Joshi. Opposing proposed legislation on anti-superstition and black magic in Karnataka, BJP today challenged the Congress Government to include superstitions practised by non-Hindu communities in the proposed legislation before it was

Mangalore, Nov 7: Criticising the state government led by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah for introducing'Shaadi Bhagya' scheme for poor brides belonging only to minority communities, the state unit of Akhila Bharata Hindu Mahasabha (ABHM) demanded that the scheme be also extended out to backward girls from the Hindu community in the state. Speaking at a press conference here on Thursday, working