Karnataka

Mangalore, July 9: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders in Dakshina Kannada, the home district of Chief Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda, have remained silent spectators to the development within the party leading to the replacement of Mr. Gowda with Jagadish Shettar as the Chief Minister. The BJP bastion of the coastal belt, has elected four MLAs to the Assembly in the last election and had laid

Mangalore, July 8: A beedi branch staff was waylaid by a motorcycle-borne miscreant near Ullal and robbed of Rs. 1.14 lakh, according to a complaint registered at the local police station. Siddik, a resident of Alekal, was heading to Bharath Beedi branch on an autorickshaw on Saturday with Rs. 2.62 lakh stashed in a suitcase. The amount was meant to be deposited at the branch. When the

Mangalore, July 8: The tradition of worshiping daivas has enriched the Tulu culture, said folklore expert Ganesh Amin Sankamar. He was speaking at the Tulu Academy's monthly 'chavadi' on the topic “The contribution of Daivaradhane in the development of the language ” here on Saturday. “A language does not develop only through reading and writing. The tradition of worshiping daivas is at the base

Mangalore, July 8: “Vondondu nadigu vondondu kathe” a book authored by Tharanatha Varkady was released at a function in SDM college auditorium here on Saturday. Speaking after releasing the book scholar Dr. Kabbinale Vasntha Bharadwaj said the new title would be very helpful for those who want to undertake further research on rivers. Writer Bhuvaneshwari Hegde introduced the book. Dr. N Narayana

Bantwal, July 7: In a heart-wrenching tragedy a 6-year-old son of a Nonresident Indian lost his life after he drowned in the overflowing Netravati River here on Saturday. Police have identified the victim as Abdul Shamit, a Class 1 student of a private school in Bantwal Lower Town. His father Abdul Jabbar is working abroad. As usually the boy had left his home in Nandavar early in the morning

Mangalore, July 7: The quality of discussion and values of democracy have deteriorated over a period of time in the last 60 years of Karnataka Legislative Assembly's history and voters too are partly responsible for this, said Siddharamaiah, Leader of Opposition, Karnataka Legislative Assembly. He was delivering a talk at the valedictory programme of a seminar on 'Sixty years of Karnataka

Mangalore, July 7: With Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda set to lose the chair to Lingayat leader Jagadish Shettar, the “conscientious citizens” former's home-district have launched a campaign to save their fovourite CM. Expressing frustration over the escalated campaign to overthrow Mr Gowda and to destabilize his government, Jaago Mangalore Association has called upon the people of the state

Mangalore, July 7: At least two persons of a same family were killed and two others critically injured in a head-on collision between a speeding city bus and a car in the city on Saturday. The deceased have been identified as Harshit Alva (22) and Suguna Alva (64). They were travelling in the ill-fated Wagon R car. Harshith Alva Geeta Alva and Sharavu Alva (12), who were also travelling the same

Mangalore, July 7: The Prime Minister as well as other ministers in the Centre have given their nod for compensation to arecanut growers in the state. But the state government is too busy in internal conflicts and Chief Ministerial tussle to follow up the areca-nut growers' problems, said Siddharamaiah, Leader of Opposition, Karnataka Legislative Assembly. He was speaking at an anti-BJP awareness

Mangalore, July 7: Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly Siddaramaiah on Saturday predicted that the change of guard in Karnataka would only worsen the infighting in crisis-ridden saffron party. His statement comes after BJP leaders are mulling for a change in leadership in the state by making a Lingayat strongman Jagadish Shettar as CM replacing Gowda. Responding to the queries of