Karnataka

Bangalore, Aug 31: Rattled by a reported CBI dossier about state secretariat employees' prurient interest in watching pornography on official computers during office hours, Karnataka government has decided to install software to block such sites. "It has come to the government's notice. We have taken a serious view of the matter," state IT and BT Minister S R Patil told reporters, days after CBI

Kasargod, Aug 31: Two men were arrested by the police while they were transporting as much as 46 kilograms of cannabis (ganja) in Kasargod on Saturday. The two arrested have been identified as M G Murali (42) resident of Idukki and Sunil David (34) resident of Ernakulam. The police arrested the duo at a junction in Kasargod while they were transporting ganja in a Toyota Qualis bearing registration

New Delhi, Aug 31: Diesel prices may be hiked by Rs 3-5 per litre, kerosene by Rs 2 and LPG by Rs 50 per cylinder as Oil Minister M Veerappa Moily urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to take steps to tackle a record Rs 180,000 crore of losses arising from dipping rupee and surging oil rates. Moily, who had on Thursday met Finance Minister P Chidambaram on the issue, on August 30 wrote to Singh

Mangalore, Aug 31: K Pratapsimha Nayak of Belthangady took charge as the new BJP president of Dakshina Kannada district unit at an installation programme held at C V Nayak Hall here on Saturday. Outgoing district president K Padmanabha Kottary formally handed over the charge to Pratapsimha Nayak on the occasion. Prathapasimha Nayak has been elected for the second time as the district president of

Mangalore, Aug 31: “Martial arts and advocacy are inter-related since both have same principle of 'defend and fight' against the opponent. Here one has to respect his opponent and possess the knowledge that what he is going to do but not where is he from” said Advocate, Suryanarayan NK of Puttur in his inaugural address at 'Moot court society- 2013' of Shri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara law

Mangalore, Aug 31: As many as 10 personnel of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel, accused of beating up people in Kuthethur on August 11 were arrested were arrested by the Surathkal police on Friday. The arrested were Rajesh Chand Bose, Manoj Kumar, SB Achaiah, Harinder Pattar, Somanna Gowda, Ramanayya, D Raghupathy, S Suresh Babu, Digen Dekka Barua and A Ramakrishnan. However

Bantwal, Aug 31: Tension prevailed in Kalladka area after activists belonging to Hindutva outfits resorted to a fight on Friday night. The police intervened and brought the situation under control. It is learnt that members of Bajrang Dal and Om Shakti unit of Hindu Jagaran Vedike got into a fight due to some trifling reason. An altercation that broke out between Dal leader Jayaram and HJV leader

Bangalore, Aug 31: A month ago, Karnataka Janata Paksha?(KJP) President B?S?Yeddyurappa spoke about forging a grand alliance of opposition parties to take on the ruling Congress. But on Friday, Yeddyurappa dropped enough hints that his party was ready for seat-sharing with the Congress for the Lok?Sabha polls. The change in Yeddyurappa's stand is apparently due to the failure of the alliance

Mangalore, Aug 31: In a recent development in connection to the Panjimogaru double murder case, victim Razia's husband Hameed and his brothers Abdul Satthar, Mayaddi and Monu allegedly assaulted Muhammad Haneef (24), Razia's brother. Haneef is in the ICU of wenlock hospital. While a case was registered by the victim at Kavoor police station, a counter case was filed by Satthar against Haneef

New Delhi, Aug 31: A Sayeed, national president of Social Democratic Party of India, (SDPI), has given a clarion call to start a new political movement, a struggle for another freedom, together with all intellectuals from all walks of life under a common platform to defeat the forces of communalism to stop 'Politics of Terrorism'. Sayeed gave the call while delivering his presidential address