Karnataka

Udupi, Oct 26: A Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh functionary from coastal Karnataka’s Udupi district is said to have played a crucial role in organising protests across Kerala against entry of women into the Sabarimala temple earlier this month. Even though the Kerala police have arrested 1,400 people in connection with the violent protests and filed 440 cases, the issue has worked in favour of the

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New Delhi, Oct 26: An eight-year-old student of a madrasa died after being attacked allegedly by a group of minor boys in south Delhi's Malviya Nagar. The incident occurred on Thursday morning when the students objected to a few local boys playing and creating noise in front of the madrasa. The local boys insisted on playing since they claimed there was no other vacant place nearby. A scuffle

Byndoor, Oct 26: Congress leader and former chief minister Siddaramaiah said on Thursday campaigned for the coalition candidate Madhu Bangarappa of Janata Dal (Secular) for bypolls to Shivamogga parliamentary seat. Addressing a campaign meet at Nagur in Byndoor Assembly constituency, which comes under Shivamogga parliamentary seat, he said that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA government

Mangaluru, Oct 26: A court of Judicial Magistrate First Class in Sullia on Thursday remanded Hindutva chauvinist Chaithra Kundapura and six of her associates to judicial custody till November 3 in connection with the Wednesday’s assault on Hindu Jagarana Vedike leader Guruprasad Panja at Kukke Subramanya. The associates of Chaithra are Sudin, Vinay, Manikanta, Nikhil, Harish Kharvi and Harish

Mangaluru, Oct 26: The activists of Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) staged a protest in front of Bajpe police station on the outskirts of the city on Thursday, demanding action against a police officer who had allegedly assaulted a Muslim woman recently. The woman identified as Salika, 40, a resident of Ganjimutt near Kaikamba, is being treated at a private hospital here. According to

Alappuzha, Oct 25: Sister Anupama, who was at the forefront of protests demanding the arrest of rape accused Bishop Franco Mulakkal was on Thursday heckled and asked by some people to leave the cemetery where the funeral of a key witness in the rape case was going on. Kuriakose Kattuthara, a priest who had also testified against Mulakkal, had been found dead under mysterious circumstances in

Bengaluru, Oct 25: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday conducted searches at two locations here in connection with a foreign exchange contravention case against human rights watchdog Amnesty International India, officials said. They said the searches are being conducted under the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) and the central probe agency is looking for documents. The ED, they

Bengaluru, Oct 25: Sri Bharati Thirtha Swamiji, head of Sri Sri Jagadguru Shankaracharya Mahasamsthanam in Sringeri located in Chikkamagaluru district of Karnataka, has appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to restore Sharada Peeth in POK, which is currently in ruins, and enable pilgrimage by Indians to the holy shrine. In a letter written to Mr Modi, the Sringeri seer has stated that eighth

Bengaluru, Oct 25: A 19-year-old boy was charred to death after his motorcycle rammed a truck carrying LPG cylinders near Devanahalli, northeast Bengaluru, on Wednesday. The deceased, Somu alias Somashekar, was a resident of Bhattaramarenahalli, Devanahalli, and a private firm staffer in Devanahalli Town. He was riding to office when the accident occurred at 8.30am, police said. “Somashekar was