Karnataka

Bidar, February 1: Chief Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda's recent statement that the Government will try to bring Jains under backward classes 2B category has come under fire. At present, they come under category 3B. The Chief Minister had made the statement at the inauguration of the Mahamasthakabhisheka function in Venur a few days ago. 'Ridiculous' “It is ridiculous,'' C.S. Dwarakanath, former

Mangalore, February 1: Hajj pilgrimage from Karnataka has been made hassle free by the Regional Passport Office this year. The RPO will start issuing 350 additional applications for passports, especially for Hajj pilgrims. New counters have been opened at the passport Seva Kendra (PSKs) and passport applications issuing offices Mangalore, Hubli and Gulbarga, besides an increase in the number of

Mangalore, February 1: When most of the students attempting SSLC exams in the next few months are buried in their books studying, students of Swaroopa Adhyayana Kendra are busy singing, dancing and painting. Students of Swaroopa Adhyayana Kendra painting a picture, while singing their institution anthem, at Town Hall in Mangalore on Tuesday.However, people who are thinking that these kids are up

Honnavar, February 1: Members of a women's self-help group (SHG) on Tuesday laid siege to the Honnavar police station seeking the arrest of three persons who had been allegedly selling hooch at Keravalli village in Honnavar taluk. They said Ishwar, Narayan, and Gajanan were selling hooch in the village. This had led to law and order problem in the village. Many families in the village had lost

Mangalore, February 1: The minority morcha of the district unit of the BJP will hold a protest in front of the Deputy Commissioner's office in Mangalore on February 7 demanding withdrawal of cases filed against RSS leader Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat in connection with a speech he made in Uppinangady last month. Addressing presspersons here on Tuesday, Anwar Manippady, chairman of Karnataka Minorities

Mangalore, February 1: Members of the United Christian Association and Christian Reform Foundation staged a silent demonstration here on Tuesday demanding that some of the families residing in houses owned by the Catholic church be given ownership of the houses. They demonstrated in front of the Bishop's house in Kodialbail. In a pamphlet distributed to journalists, the two groups said that

Mangalore, January 31: The Supreme Court on Tuesday indefinitely postponed hearing a petition filed by The Central Arecanut and Cocoa Marketing and Processing Cooperative Ltd (CAMPCO) and other Arecanut marketing cooperative societies against a ban imposed by court on Gutka. Campco and other marketing cooperative societies had impleaded themselves in this case urging the court to reconsider its

Mangalore, January 31: The concerns of the Beary community fuelled by the uneasy political situation in West Asia were articulated at a discussion held here recently. It highlighted that the Arab spring has left the expat population in these countries worried about their jobs and safety although the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council countries, barring Bahrain, have remained relatively unaffected

Mangalore, January 31: Men with their faces, head and clothes covered with colours were all over the city on Tuesday suggesting it was the last day of the six-day grand car festival of Sri Venkatramana Temple on Car Street, here Okkuli, a traditional and religious sport in which people apply colours on one another and take mass bath under water pumped from parked tankers, was the highlight of the

Mangalore, January 31: Dakshina Kannada district level students' Kabaddi Championship will be held on February 5, at Nehru Maidan in the city. The event is being organized by The Dakshina Kannada district unit of Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC) in association with Jaya Karnataka and Dakshina Kannada District Amateur Kabaddi Association. The tournaments would be conducted in separate