Karnataka

Bengaluru, Nov 10: Vishva Hindu Parishat will hold a massive rally in Bengaluru on November 25 demanding the Union government to come out with a notification to remove all obstruction for construction of Ram Mandir at Ayodhya, VHP Secretary General Milind Parande said here on Saturday. Addressing a press conference here, he said that the public meeting will be attended by Sants, Sanyasis, Ram

Mysuru, Nov 10: Former Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah today said that “those who oppose Tipu Jayanti celebrations are the real communal people”. Speaking to media persons at Mandakalli Airport on Saturday, the JDS-Congress Coalition government Coordination Committee Chairman said “Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders are communal. Those who oppose such programmes are also communal. Hindus

Bengaluru, Nov 10 (PTI) Three days after remaining elusive, mining baron G Janardhana Reddy said on Saturday he would appear before the police in connection with an alleged ponzi scam, maintaining that he had not done anything wrong. In a video message from an unknown location, Reddy said he was not absconding and was very much in the city, asserting that there was no need for him to flee. He also

Bengaluru, Now 10: Residents of a Bagalkot village were surprised when two local youths turned spendthrifts overnight. Though jobless and lacking income, the duo binged on costly alcohol, hired cabs even for short distances and tipped lavishly, often up to Rs 100, at hotels and bars. Mahalinga Yenkappa Malali, 20, and his friend Kallapa Lakkappa Meti, 28, were the most-discussed persons in

Bengaluru, Nov 10: The Karnataka government Saturday celebrated the birth anniversary of the controversial 18th century ruler of the erstwhile Mysore Kingdom, Tipu Sultan, bringing the state under a thick security blanket amid threats of protest by the BJP and many Hindu outfits. Calling Tipu a "religious bigot", the state BJP unit had urged the JDS-Congress coalition government to drop its

Bengaluru, Nov 10: Hundreds of BJP workers, along with three BJP legislators were detained in Kodagu district when they protested against Karnataka government sponsored Tipu Jayanti Celebrations which was held amid tight police security on Saturday. Protests by BJP workers and members of other right-wing organisations marked the Tipu Jayanti celebrations in Kodagu, which had witnessed violent

Bengaluru, Nov 10: The Karnataka high court on Friday declined to pass interim orders regarding two petitions challenging the Tipu Jayanti celebrations by the state government. Declining the request, a division bench headed by Chief Justice Dinesh Maheshwari noted that it cannot pass an inconsistent order vis-à-vis orders passed by the court in 2016 and 2017. In 2016, the court directed the

Bengaluru, Nov 10: A 38-year-old woman and her husband have been arrested for allegedly murdering her lover last week. The body was recovered from the victim’s mini-goods vehicle recovered from Hoskote town.

Bengaluru, Nov 10: If you are reading this while you’re stuck in traffic, hold your breath. Yet another study has found that Bengaluru is the country’s most congested and second slowest city. A research paper, ‘Mobility and congestion in urban India’, published by US-based National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) recently, revealed that Bengaluru is one of the 20 most-congested cities in India

Mangaluru, Nov 9: Members of Krishi Bhoomi Samrakshana Samiti (KBSS) supported by the Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha (KRRS) sat in a silent protest in the Deputy Commissioner’s (DC) office at State Bank, Mangaluru on November 9 at 10.00 a. m. for the withdrawal of the land acquisition for Mangalore Refinery's fourth phase. The commencement of this protest was by being seated in the corridors of the