Karnataka

Mangaluru, Dec 28: State health minister U T Khader is not just an able politician the state has seen, but also an able sportsman even from his college days. This became apparent when the minister donned the role of a batsman and faced deliveries during a cricket match held at Bellare in Sullia taluk recently. Mr Khader was one of the chief guests at a floodlight sports meet held at Bellare after

Mangaluru, Dec 28: A truck terminal being the need of the hour for parking trucks and lorries in Mangaluru, D Devaraj Urs Truck Terminals Limited has come forward to construct a truck terminal for which all necessary arrangements will be made by the company within the next six months. Announcing this at a press conference here on Saturday, president of the company S N Prakasham said that there was

Bengaluru, Dec 28: Alleging BJP of indulging in spreading false propaganda against the party by painting it anti-Hindu, Karnataka Congress chief G Parameshwara today called on the Congressmen to raise their voice against such wrong information. "BJP people are unnecessarily talking about the Congress,they are trying to project Congress as anti-Hindu, but the truth is Congress looks at all

Mangaluru, Dec 28: Dalit representatives raised the issue of the irregularity of SC/ST meetings held at police stations in Mangaluru City Police Commissionerate limits at the monthly grievance meeting held on Sunday. In the meeting chaired by Mangaluru City police commissioner R Hithendra, Dalit representative Ramesh Kotian said that SC/ST meetings were not being held regularly every month at

Mangaluru, Dec 28: At least three persons were injured, one of them critically, while dozens of people had a narrow escape, after a private bus ran out of control in the city on Sunday morning. Besides sending three persons to hospital, the'Vinayadurga' bus proceeding Adyar via mallikatte from State Bank Bus Terminus in the city, damaged at least eight vehicles including three cars and four two

Panaji, Dec 28: In the midst of a nationwide row over the issue of re-conversion, a senior RSS official said that the organisation was willing to facilitate the 'Ghar Wapsi' (re-conversion) of those willing Goan Catholics, whose ancestors were forcibly converted during the colonial Portuguese era. Speaking to a select group of journalists in Goa, on the sidelines of a training camp for 15-year-old

Bengaluru, Dec 28: For the past four years, Swapnil Nagare had been juggling his work at a software company in the city with his preparations for the Common Admission Test or CAT. This year, however, he finally achieved his highest score of 99.9 percentile in four years and is hoping to land a seat at any one of the top three IIMs. A number of candidates from the city who took the test in November

Kasaragod, Dec 28: Terming the œGhar Wapsi  or reconversion campaign of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad œdangerous , Kerala Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala has said stern action will be taken in cases of forcible conversion. Stating that no case of forcible conversion had been reported recently in the State, Mr. Chennithala said a person, under Article 25 of the Constitution, was free to practise one

Ahmedabad, Dec 28: Information sought by Jashodaben, wife of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on the security cover given to her through an RTI has been denied by the Mehsana Police on the ground that her queries were related to local intelligence bureau which is exempted under RTI Act. œThe information sought by her (Ms. Jashodaben) was related to the local intelligence bureau (LIB), therefore it

Kukke Subramanya, Dec 28: Devotees at the historical Kukke Subramanya temple on Saturday performed'Ede Snana,' a modified version of the centuries-old tradition of'Made Snana.' Under the tranformed version held to mark Kirushta festival, cows consumed food served on 432 plantain leaves, while 62 devotees rolled over the leftovers to fulfill their vows, under tight police security in the temple