Karnataka

Mangalore, Jan 12: People of different age groups and different walks of life thronged from BEM High School here on Sunday to register themselves as the members of the Aam Aadmi Party during its membership drive programme. In all, as many as 410new members were registered in the two-hour drive, while more than 700 people participated in the informal gathering that supplemented the drive. The new

Bangalore, Jan 12: The Karnataka unit of the Aam Aadmi Party has launched 'Nanoo Janasaamaanya' (Main Bhee Aam Aadmi) campaign in the state as part of the party's national membership drive. Addressing a press conference in?Bangalore on?Saturday, AAP?National Executive member Prithvi Reddy said the process of nominations of candidates for the 28 Lok?Sabha constituencies in the state was also

Mangalore, Jan 12: Deputy Commissioner of Dakshina Kannada and administrator of Mangalore City Corporation AB Ibrahim has suggested horizontal growth of the Mangalore city for the development of infrastructures and to avoid the conjunction. He was reacting to the memorandum handed over by the Kanara Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Mangalore demanding change in hiked trade licence fees under

Mangalore, Jan 12: Unable to bear the burden of increasing price of Liquefied Petroleum Gas, both men and women members of different families took to the streets in Mangalore and staged a novel protest on Saturday. The protest was organized by Gas and Ration Users Forum, Mangalore, in association with Praja Vikas Seva Trust. Raising slogans against union government, the protesters gathered in

Udupi, Jan 12: In an apparent attempt to create communal disturbance in the region, unidentified miscreants have distributed the pamphlets containing obscene photographs of a young couple that had appeared in Facebook earlier this week. Besides obscene images of a Parkala based girl in compromising position with her lover Mohammed Yasir, from Katapady village who is now in police custody, the

Kasargod, Jan 12: Two youths were found dead under mysterious circumstances near the railway track at Kanwatheertha locality in Manjeswaram on Saturday. The deceased have been identified as Ajith Kumar (19), and Anil (25), a native of Mulky town in Mangalore taluk. According to sources the two were close friends and both were residing in two rented quarters at nearby Kunjathur locality. They were

New Delhi, Jan 12: New customs rules under which Indian flyers will no longer be required to fill immigration forms when they return from abroad, among other changes, will now be applicable at international airports in the country from March 1. According to the new rules, under Customs Baggage Declaration Regulations, 2013, an Indian citizen would need to fill up the immigration form only when he

Lucknow, Jan 12: The latest insensitive remark on deaths in relief camps of Muzaffarnagar and Shamli comes from state sports minister Narad Rai who said on Saturday that death occurs everywhere, even in palaces. "Death of children, adults or elderly is inevitable. It isn't necessary that only those living in camps are dying. People die in palaces too. It isn't that children in our homes don't die

Hubli, Jan 12: Bharat Kranti Sena chief Pranavananda Swami tried to commit suicide by pouring kerosene on himself, during a protest staged in front of the mini Vidhana Soudha on Saturday, opposing televangelist Benny Hinn's programme scheduled to be held in Bangalore from January 15. Pranavananda Swami had launched a hunger strike in the morning. In the evening, he suddenly pulled a kerosene can

Panaji, Jan 11: Actress-turned BJP-leader Smriti Irani has said that former Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa has been taken back into the saffron party to strengthen it ahead of the Lok Sabha election. Irani is in Goa to oversee preparations for the Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's rally Sunday. "Whatever needs to be done to strengthen the party will be