Karnataka

Mangaluru, Oct 10: The sound of ‘Shri Kaala Bhairava’ Jogi’s Bombay band sets the celebration mood and the Kudla’s popular troupe is celebrating its fifteenth anniversary this year. Said to be first to introduce Nasik band in Dakishina Kannada, the city-based troupe currently has over 80 members including girls. According to Nagaraj Jogi, the founder of the troupe, it is the first ever band troupe

Bengaluru, Oct 10: Congress and the Janata Dal (Secular), the coalition government partners in Karnataka, have resolved to hold joint campaigns ahead of the byelections to two Assembly and three Lok Sabha constituencies in the state. Speaking to presspersons after a meeting with JD(S) supremo H.D. Deve Gowda on Tuesday, the former Chief Siddaramaiah, and AICC general secretary in charge of

Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 10: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayanpresented a cheque of Rs 50 lakh as compensation to former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) scientist Nambi Narayanan, who was arrested in an alleged spy scandal in 1994. This comes as a follow up to the Supreme Court's order directing the Kerala government to pay a sum of Rs 50 lakh as compensation to the appellant. The

Bengaluru, Oct 10: Social mediaplayed a major role in propelling the BJP to power in the 2014 Lok Sabha poll, but the shoe could be on the other foot in 2019 if preparations by the Karnataka unit of Congress to combat the saffron party are anything to go by. Six months ahead of the general election, the Congress, which appears to have learnt a lesson from 2014, has scaled up its social media

Bengaluru, Oct 10: Amid growing discontent in the party and alliance partner Congress over her candidature, JD(S) has decided to go ahead and field Anitha, wife of chief minister H D Kumaraswamy, for the November 3 bypoll to the Ramanagara assembly segment. Following a meeting with party workers in Ramanagara on Tuesday, JD(S) taluk president Rajashekar said Anitha will file her nomination papers

Setting an example of religious harmony, people belonging to both Hindu and Muslim community pay obeisance at the Dargah of Harzat Shah Ruknuddin Tola in the Kalaburgi district of Karnataka. The doors of the shrine are apparently "open for all." The shrine is dedicated to a 14th century Muslim saint, who spent around 40 years praying on the hillock, on the top of which the shrine is constructed

New Delhi, Oct 9: Defending its decision to hold by-election in the three Lok Sabha constituencies in Karnataka, the Election Commission on Tuesday said that they have followed Section 151A of the Representation of the People Act, which mandates the Commission to fill the vacancies through by-election within six months. In a statement, the Commission said that “Section 151A of the Representation

Bengaluru, Oct 9: A teenage student-cum-bread winner paid a heavy price for following traffic rules after he stopped his bike at a junction when the signal turned red and was run over by a drunk motorist in southeast Bengaluru. Praveen Kumar(19), a resident of Chamarajpet worked as a data-entry operator to support his family and was a first-year BSc student at Jain Evening College. He was headed

Mangaluru, Oct 9: The passenger train services Bengaluru and Mangaluru will resume on Wednesday (October 10), after a gap of two months. The Bengaluru-Karwar/Kannur-Bengaluru night express will start on Wednesday while the day train will start on Thursday, said SWR CPRO E. Vijaya. Train services were cancelled following multiple landslips induced by torrential rains on Sakleshpur-Subrahmanya Road

Kalaburagi, Oct 9: In a disturbing incident, a 12-year-old boy hanged himself to death in this city of Karnataka, but police suspect that family matters could have been the cause rather than that he was influenced by the alleged 'blue whale' online challenge, as per reports. Police said on Tuesday that the boy died due to hanging and Raghavendra Police station officials had launched a probe on