Karnataka

Bangalore, Aug 7: JD?(S) state president H?D Kumaraswamy on Tuesday said the main aim of his party is to defeat the Congress in the by-elections to two Lok Sabha seats. However, unlike his father H?D?Deve Gowda, he did not deny that the JD (S) will have no understanding with the BJP to achieve the set goal. In an interaction with this newspaper, Kumaraswamy said that the foremost goal is to retain

Mangalore, Aug 7: Condemning the ruthless assault on two Dalit sisters for indecent and vulgar exposure in Belthangady taluk, Dalit leaders demanded that the district administration should arrest the assailants as well as police officials who were involved in the attack. Speaking at a press meet here on Tuesday, member of Dakshina Kannada District Awareness and In-charge Committee Honnappa Kunder

Mysore, Aug 7: Wali, the 51-year-old male chimpanzee at the Sri Chamarajendra Zoological Gardens here, died of old age-related illness on Tuesday. The animal was the main attraction at the zoo and often played pranks on visitors. Chimpanzees have an average lifespan of 35-40 years in the wild. According to the zoo officials, Wali had been sick for the past two weeks. In the last few days, he did

Mangalore, Aug 6: Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal, Mangalore have jointly demanded immediate closure of illegal abattoirs in undivided Dakshina Kannada district, and urged the state government to implement the cow slaughter prevention act of 1964. Addressing mediapersons at a joint press conference in the city on Tuesday, VHP regional president M B Puranik said that the growing number of

Mangalore, Aug 6: Member of Legislative Council K Monappa Bhandary gave a stern warning to the Congress-led state government that the Bharatiya Janata Party would resort to district-wide protests if the former failed to stop the rampant cow-slaughter and close down illegal abattoirs in Dakshina Kannada. Speaking at a press conference at district BJP office here on Tuesday, he said that after

Mangalore, Aug 6: Fr Stanislaus R. Pereira mostly known as Fr Stanly Pereir) who is a priest of the Diocese of Mangalore passed away on Tuesday August 6, 2013 in the morning in Little Sisters of the Poor, Home for the Aged situated in Bajjodi-Mangalore due to age-related illness. He was 88 year old and was a priest for the last 60 years. Bishop of Mangalore Most Rev. Dr Aloysius Paul D'Souza and V

Bantwal, Aug 6: Hundreds of devotees thronged the Karinjeshwara temple and Narahari Parvatha in Bantwal here on Tuesday to take holy dip in the ponds on the occasion of 'Aati Amavasye'. The devotees especially newlyweds thronged both the temples starting from 4 a.m. A few devotees ailing from asthma offered coir ropes as offering to the temple and others offered beetle-leaves with areca nuts into

Kaup, Aug 6: A couple was burnt alive under mysterious circumstances at Katapady Beedu in Pangala in Udupi district after their home caught fire on Tuesday morning. The deceased are Vijaya Shetty and his wife Chandrika Shetty. Though preliminary investigation suggests the house was caught fire, it is said the couple intentionally set fire. The bodies of the couple have been sent for autopsies

Mangalore, Aug 6: In a gruesome incident, a youth was viciously stabbed to death by a gang of men late at night on Monday at Jeppu-Morgansgate in the suburbs of the city. The victim has been identified as Vikranth Shetty (27), resident of Kallapu near Thokkottu. The murder is said to have taken place at 11.15 p.m. on Monday. It is learnt that Vikranth was employed at a recreation club near Kallapu

Mumbai, Aug 6: Kuwait has warned that a dispute over a Rs. 70-crore flat in Mumbai could make it rethink bilateral ties. At stake is trade worth nearly Rs. 1,08, 000 crore. The royal family of Kuwait, which owns the Al Sabah court building in south Mumbai's posh Marine Drive, has moved the Bombay High Court through the building's caretaker Faisal Essa, accusing a builder, Sanjay Punamiya of