Karnataka

Mangalore, June 30: President of Dakshina Kannada unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party K. Padmanabha Kottari said on Wednesday that the party had not accepted the resignation of the former minister B. Nagaraja Shetty to the primary membership of the party. He told The Hindu that Mr. Shetty had submitted the resignation letter to him five days ago. He had quit as chairman of Karnataka Coastal

Mangalore, June 30: Pravinchandra, husband of Chandrika Suvarna, who allegedly committed suicide in her house in Yekkur here on Tuesday, was arrested by the police here on Wednesday, the police said. Sub-inspector Prakash said that Pravinchandra had been arrested under sections 498A (cruelty by a woman's husband and relatives) and 306 (abetment to suicide). He added that his family members were

Mangalore, June 29: Since Yeddyurappa has support of money and RSS it is not easy to step him down from the power, opined Kagodu Thimmappa, senior congress leader. Addressing the party workers here recently, he said the party workers should make “Congress Nadige, Janara Balige” a success in the state. He admitted that Yeddyurappa could not be defeated easily as he has the support of caste and

Mangalore, June 29: In a curious incident, a parked car moved a few yards on its own and plunged into the backwaters of fisheries port here on Wednesday, before the very eyes of dozens of people. It is said that the car was parked in neutral gear. Abu Hurairah, a resident of Ullal, who had purchased the Maruti Suzuki Swift only a week ago suffered a loss of at least Rs 30,000 in the incident

Mangalore, June 29: Agriculture is a vital instrument for development of the country. However farmers have been neglected post-independence due to which farmer suicide is at peak. If central government fails to provide support price for the areca fruit than all state politicians will fight against government under one roof without any discrimination of political parties, said Nalin Kumar Kateel

Mangalore, June 29: Despite the hastened probe by Mangalore City Police, the mystery behind the brutal murder of a 35-year-old woman and her eight-year-old daughter on the outskirts of the city, has remained unsolved, even after a day. A city based scrap merchant's wife Raziya and daughter Fathima Zuha were stabbed to death in their house at Panjimogaru in Kavoor police station limits on Tuesday

Mangalore, June 29: Communist Party of India (CPI) led CITU and DYFI are playing a political gimmick by protesting against Mangalore City Corporation in the name of minority street vendors. They are not having any empathy with street vendors and are only trying to capitalize on the situation by protesting unconstitutionally, said Rahim Uchil, Honourary President, Mangaluru Alpa Sankhyaata Mattu

Mangalore, June 29: A man, who tried to deceive a married woman after developing physical relationship with her, was forced to tie the marital knot with her by the activists of Jaya Karnataka. Rajesh, a resident of Kumpala near Kotekar and Poornima of same village entered into wedlock at Subrahmanya Temple in Dogarkeri here. Poornima, after being deserted by her husband was leading a lonely life

Mangalore, June 29: Students who join postgraduate courses of Mangalore University from the academic year 2011-12 will have an added advantage pertaining to evaluating answer scripts. They can ask the university to get their answer scripts evaluated again under “challenge valuation”. In reality, if a student opts for “challenge valuation” his or her answer script undergoes evaluation either for

Mangalore, June 29: District in-charge Minister Krishna J Palemar on Monday promised to provide houses to the 1,126 families from the Koraga community in the district. He was speaking at an interactive programme with gram panchayat members here. The programme had been organised by Sugarama, an association of the elected gram panchayat members. Seena Shetty, ombudsman for the Mahatma Gandhi