Karnataka

Bangalore, Aug 14: Peeved over the tie-up between the JD(S) and the BJP, JD(S)?senior leader and former MP C?Narayanaswamy has tendered his resignation from the party membership. A JD(S)?member for the past 36 years, Narayanswamy said he has resigned from the party and decided to join the Congress on August 15. “I believed in the philosophy of secularism and joined the party. But the recent turn

Mangalore, Aug 14: Walking amidst the mucky fish market sniffing the pungent smell is soon going to be thing of past. Relishing on some fresh fish is going to be hassle free as fish sale is going online in Mangalore. You place the order online and sit back. The ordered variety of fish will be delivered at your doorsteps. Shireen Exports, owned by Muhammad Haneef from Ullal is contemplating to take

New Delhi, Aug 14: Acting for the third time since January, the government on Tuesday raised import duty on gold to 10 per cent to stem import of the yellow metal, a key contributor to India's exorbitantly high current account deficit (CAD) and the consequent currency depreciation. But concerns remained that a 10 per cent duty difference in gold prices in India and outside may lead to increase in

Kundapur, Aug 13: A family of pump operator was assaulted by a gang of miscreants who barged into their house, at Vandse in Kundapur taluk, late on Sunday night. The incident finds its roots in an issue of releasing water to a colony in the village. The victims Farida Banu (40), her sons Rizwan (21), Imran (18) and Irfan (17) are wife and children of Nazir respectively, who is a pump operator for

Mangalore, Aug 13: Students affiliated to the district unit of Akhila Bharata Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and Youth Against Corruption (YAC) staged a demonstration in front of the Deputy Commissioner's office here on Tuesday, against the corrupt UPA government and condemning the killing of Indian soldiers by Pakistani troops along the Indo-Pak border in Jammu and Kashmir. Addressing the

New Delhi, Aug 13: Congress leader Digvijay Singh today accused the BJP of sparking communal incidents in states of Bihar, Jammu & Kashmir and Rajasthan. The AICC General Secretary had alleged in July that BJP would instigate communal riots in Congress-ruled states ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections as the opposition party feels that it cannot win without "communalising" the polls. “6 Communal

Mangalore, Aug 13: A thief who tried staging a stunt of jumping from a building to escape being caught died owing to several injuries, at a private hospital in Moodbidri, on Tuesday. Victim has been identified as Vijay (35), a native of Polali. He was staying in his relative's house at Guddeyangady, Kodyadka and was working as a daily wage labourer in Moodbidri. It is learnt that on Tuesday

Mangalore, Aug 13: Sri Ram Sene will organise its annual study meet on August 17 and 18 at Shree Subramanya Mandir, Neermarga. Addressing a news conference on Tuesday, Sene State Vice-President Kumar Malemar said that the meet will have its national president, Pramod Mutalik, State organising secretary, Gangadara Kulakarni, Mahesh Koppa and Savitha Ranganath taking part in it. The meet will

Mangalore, Aug 13: An officer working in the District Small Scale Industries Office, landed in the Lokayukta net when he was caught red-handed by sleuths while accepting a bribe here on Tuesday. Vaman Nayak, Small-scale Industrial Promotion officer at the District Industrial Centre, was arrested by the Lokayukta police at Yeyyadi, after he was caught accepting a bribe of Rs 4000 from complainant

Mangalore, Aug 13: J R Lobo, MLA of Mangalore South visited the Mangalore Fisheries Port (Dakke) in the Port Ward, here on Tuesday, and held a discussion with the officials to take proper steps to solve the existing problems. It was noticed that cleanliness was the major problem of the area. The drains were full and the sewage was overflowing into the roads, accumulating at various pockets