Karnataka

Bengaluru, Oct 8: Karnataka BJP president B S Yeddyurappa Monday has rubbished the media reports that predicted Prime Minister Narendra Modi would be contesting the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Dakshina Kannada or any other Lok Sabha constituency from Karnataka. "All this is far from the truth, unnecessarily such news is being spread. There is no substance in it. PM will neither contest from

Newsroom, Oct 8: A woman journalist from Kerala has filed complaints with the cyber cells of Kerala and Kuwait Police for allegedly intimidating her and hurling abuses on Facebook. The journalist named Shahina Nafeesa, who is an associate editor of a magazine, has accused a Malayalee man living in Kuwait of using cyber space to threaten and humiliate her. Kerala-based Shahina's ordeal began when

Bengaluru, Oct 8: The Election Commission's decision to hold by-elections to three Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka on November 3 has come as a surprise to most political parties who questioned the necessity for the exercise in view of the general elections due early next year. Pointing to the short term of about five months those elected in the by-poll would have, Congress and BJP said the Lok Sabha

Bengaluru, Oct 8: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has shipped a key payload of Chandrayan-2, the Lander Ka Band Radar altimeter and HDA Processor, from its Satellite Application Center (SAC) in Ahmedabad to U R Rao Satellite Centre in Bengaluru that will be tested and integrated in this mission. ISRO website said that the Altimeter and HDA Processor was flagged off from SAC on Monday

Riyadh: Jam'iyyatul Falah, Riyadh Unit organized JF Super Cup 2018, a 6 over knock-out cricket tournament in association with Mangaluru Cricket Association (MCA) – Riyadh sponsored and supported by SMSA, UNIVERSAL, ALMARAI, NCMS, OPTIMUM &ZEITEXPRESS at Exit-18, Sulai MCA Grounds, Riyadh on 5th October 2018. 12 teams took part in the tournament with the matches being played on Friday 5th October

Shivamogga, Oct 8: Karnataka BJP chief and former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa breathed a sigh of relief after the district committee of the saffron party passed a unanimous resolution proposing his son B Y Raghavendra as the candidate for the byelection to the Shivamogga parliamentary seat. Mr Raghavendra’s name was proposed by K S Eshwarappa, Shivamogga MLA. The proposal was seconded by M B

Newsroom, Oct 8: The Janata Dal (Secular) is likely to contest in the Shivamogga and Mandya parliamentary bypolls while the Congress will take Ballari in the next month’s bypolls to three Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka, highly placed sources said. JD(S) supremo H.D. Deve Gowda said all decisions pertaining to the bypolls have been shared with the Congress and the candidate for Mandya would be

Bengaluru, Oct 8: A case has been registered against the editor and 12 reporters of a Kannada TV news channel in connection with a controversial report against a politician and demanding money from him. The case was booked on Sunday following a complaint lodged by Rajesh H M, brother of Janata Dal (S) MLC H M Ramesh Gowda. The complainant stated that a false report aimed at ruining the political

Mangaluru, Oct 8: The Bajpe police have arrested three more people in connection with the attack on Bajrang Dal leader Harish Shetty, at Sooralppady near Gurpura on September 24. With this, the number of arrested persons has increased to six. The arrested are rowdy-sheeters Mohammed Khalid (30) of Ulaibettu, Mohammed Sharif (27) of Sooralppady and Isan (21) of Kolambe kajepadavu. The police

Mysuru, Oct 8: In a shocking incident, a 45-year-old tusker identified as Ranga aka ‘Rowdy Ranga’ was killed in a road accident near Mattigodu, in Nagarahole Forest, near Hunsuru in the wee hours of Monday. It is learnt that a private bus from Kannur heading towards Bengaluru knocked down the jumbo while it was attempting to cross the road Ranga was severely injured on his hip and suffered a major