Karnataka

New Delhi, May 4: Indore in Madhya Pradesh is India’s cleanest city and Gonda in Uttar Pradesh the filthiest, a nationwide cleanliness survey by the urban development ministry has found. The survey of 434 cities, conducted as part of the Modi government’s Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, or Clean India Mission, has seen the historic city in MP knock off Karnataka’s Mysuru, which has been topping the

Mumbai, May 4: The Bombay High Court today upheld the conviction and life imprisonment of 12 people (one among them is already dead) in the Bilkis Bano gang rape case while setting aside the acquittal of seven persons including policemen and doctors. The court also dismissed an appeal filed by CBI seeking death penalty for three of the convicts. "The appeal against conviction filed by the 11

Lucknow, May 4: The violence and barbarism unleashed by the activists of Hindu Yuva Vahini (HYV) in Uttar Pradesh in recent days has triggered alarm bells among state BJP leaders, who believe that non-BJP Hindutva group is harming the image of the government. HYV activists had recently lynched an old Muslim man to death in UP’s Bulandshahar district allegedly for protecting two lovers of different

Bengaluru, May 4: The department of Health and Family Welfare has suspended Dr Murali Krishna, administrative medical officer, Anekal general hospital, in connection with denial of ambulance service to the family of a child who died in a road accident. Abdul Raheem (3) met with an accident and he was brought dead to Anekal hospital on Sunday. His father had to carry the body of his son on a two

Bengaluru, May 4: A 21-year-old engineering graduate, who had secured a gold medal in the final semester exam, allegedly committed suicide by hanging from the ceiling of his residence in Girinagar, south Bengaluru, on Tuesday night just because he could not get a job during campus placement. Arpit Ravish, a native of Gubbi and resident of Dattatreyanagar, had lost his father to illness and was

Bengaluru, May 4: The JD(S) on Wednesday decided to strengthen the party’s grassroots by constituting booth-level committees across the state. Speaking at a meeting attended by JD(S) legislators and district presidents here, party state president and former chief minister H D Kumaraswamy said the JD(S) had lost around 20 “winnable” seats by a narrow margin in the 2013 Assembly polls. “We should

Bengaluru, May 4: A section of leaders in the Karnataka BJP, which has identified itself with senior leader K S Eshwarappa, has strongly pitched for replacement of P Muralidara Rao, BJP general secretary in charge of the state, with Ram Madhav. These leaders have approached the party top brass in New Delhi and suggested that Rao be replaced with Madhav, who is also one of the national general

New Delhi, May 4: The Congress-led Karnataka government on Wednesday defended before the Supreme Court its law granting protection to 'Gau Rakshaks' to prevent cow slaughter in the state and pleaded the court to dismiss a PIL challenging constitutional validity of the law. There are six states - Gujarat, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Jharkhand - which have framed law to

Mangaluru, May 3: A 16-month-old baby boy fell to his death from the seventh floor of an apartment at Jeppu Marnamikatte in Manglauru on Wednesday evening. The deceased has been identified as Muhammad Shaan, son of Imran Husain from Adyar Kannur, who is currently working in a Gulf country. The tragedy occurred in Shaan’s mother’s parental house located on the seventh floor of the Diamond City

Mangaluru, May 3: Hundreds of residents of Konaje and surrounding villages of Mangaluru taluk on Wednesday staged a protest in front of the Konaje police station on the outskirts of the city demanding immediate action against an inspector, who according to them, is not only a communal but also a criminal minded. The Popular Front of India backed protest was organised under the banner of ‘Konaje