Karnataka

Subramanya (DK), Oct 25: A day after a local leader of Hindu Jagarana Vedike (HJV) was assaulted allegedly by the aides of Chaithtra Kundapura, a firebrand figure of ‘Hindutva’ over a religious controversy, a massive protest was held on Thursday at Subramanya, a temple town in Sullia taluk of Dakshina Kannada district. Guruprasad Panja, Sullia taluk secretary of HJV was hospitalised on Wednesday

Bengaluru, Oct 25: Adichunchanagiri mutt’s supremo Sri Nirmalananda Swami on Wednesday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah in New Delhi. The meeting coming days before the bypolls here and months before the general elections in 2019 has evoked much curiosity in political circles and led to many interpretations. A few months ago, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath

Bengaluru, Oct 25: Claiming that Israel is a natural hub of innovation because of the presence of thousands of start-ups, and the most scientists and engineers per capita globally, Dana Kursh, the Consul General (South India) of the Jewish regime said that her country is ready to share its practices with India. Speaking to media persons in Bengaluru, she said: “Now, India too is becoming an

Bengaluru, Oct 25: A senior executive of a multinational IT company in the city has been arrested by the Central Crime Branch in connection with a 15-year-old murder case. Tarun Jinraj, who was wanted for killing his wife in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad in 2003, was working with Oracle (Bannerghatta Road) under a fake name ‘Praveen Batle’ and used to take night shifts to keep a low profile, said a senior

Udupi, Oct 25: The general body meeting of the management committee of a mosque at Katapady village in Udupi district on Wednesday took a violent turn as two groups engaged in clashes. The clash began during the elections to the new Jamaat committee of the Katapady Jumma Masjid. Six people from both groups got admitted to different hospitals after the incident. According to police, at the general

Hubballi, Oct 25: Udupi-Chikkamagaluru MP Shobha Karandlaje has predicted that BJP State president B S Yeddyurappa will become Chief Minister soon after the byelections two assembly seats and three Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka. Addressing presspersons at Honnur village of Jamkhandi taluk, where she was campaigning for the party's candidate, Srikant Kulkarni, on Wednesday, Karandlaje claimed that

Mangaluru, Oct 24: A meeting of the Muslim Central Committee here on Wednesday resolved to urge the Congress to field a Muslim candidate from Dakshina Kannada parliamentary constituency in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. It decided to constitute an action committee to submit a memorandum to the Congress. It decided to rope in Ministers, such as U.T Khader, B.Z. Zameer Ahmed Khan, to prevail upon the

Sullia, Oct 24: Two hardline groups of self-proclaimed saviours of Hindutva on Wednesday clashed Kashikatte near Subramanya over a trivial issue. The clash was the result of the raging controversy between Kukke Subrahmanya Kshetra and Samputa Narasimha Mutt. Young Hindutva chauvinist Chaithra Kundapura and Hindu Jagarana Vedike Sullia taluk secretary Guruprasad had engaged in mudslinging over the

Mangaluru, Oct 24: Mohammed Eshaque ‘Bamson’, a veteran of tourist vehicles industry in the coastal district passed away on Wednesday at his residence “Bamson House” at Falnir in Mangaluru. He was 66. Popularly known as ‘Bamson’, Eshaque was the proprietor of Mangalore Tourist Services (MTS), the business he inherited from his father Late B Mohammed Hajee who had established it in 1960s. After his

Mangaluru, Oct 24: More than a year after a BSNL employee was hacked to death in front of his two children in Beltangady taluk of Dakshina Kannada district, a local court has awarded life term imprisonment to the convict. Chandrasekar, a BBM student with a college at Ujire, had surrendered before the jurisdictional police after committing the crime on June 2, 2017. The victim, Thimmappa Poojary