Karnataka

Mangalore, January 23: Assayyid Fazal Hamid Koyamma Thangal Koorath son of Ullal Qazi Thajul Ulama Assayyid Abdurrahman Al-Bukhari took charge as the new Assistant Qazi on Sunday at the premises of Ullal Dargah. Thajul Ulama crowned the Assistant Qazi with the new responsibility by placing a turban on his head symbolizing the assumption of charge. Popularly known as 'Koora Thangal', he has been in

Mangalore, January 22: Congress leader Ivan D'Souza on Saturday accused the Mangalore police of directly involving in the state-wide bundh called by Bharatiya Janata party rather than maintaining law and order in the coastal city. Addressing media persons at the district Congress office, D'Souza said police have led the shutting down campaign in many parts of the city. “Many owners were forced to

Mangalore, January 22: The speculations that state-wide bundh call given by Bharatiya Janata Party government led by Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa will not be having any effect in the district have been proved wrong, after both government private buses stopped plying in the early hours of Saturday. The bundh was called in protest of Governor HR Bhardwaj's decision to allow filing of criminal cases

Kundapur, January 22: G. Mohammed Sarfaraz, a resident of Haseena Manzil in Badriya Mohalla of Gangolli died in Dubai following a massive heart attack. 25-year-old Sarfaraz, eldest son of GM Irfan, was working with Al Gurair Company for the past three years. He breathed his last at around 3.30 am on Friday, according to family sources. Sarfaraz had visited his home about 18 months back on a

Mangalore, January 22: Schools and colleges in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi remained closed in view of the bandh call given by the BJP on Saturday. Following Deputy Director of Public Instruction C Chame Gowda had on Friday made an announcement to this effect almost all colleges and schools declared a holiday to avoid any trouble. In several places students who had turned up at school without

Mangalore, January 21: In a new development, the vice-president of Sayyid Mohammed Shareeful Madani Darga and Juma Masjid, Ullal has tendered his resignation from the post protesting the alleged misuse of power and dictatorship by the Darga Committee President UK Monu. In his resignation letter addressed to the President UK Monu and other members of the Darga Committee, Abdul Rasheed, who was

Mangalore, January 2: “I would like to know whether Babar, who demolished Ram Mandir and built Masjid in the birth place of Ram, was your friend or enemy” this was one of the rhetorical questions posed by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad supremo Pravin Togadia to the saffron crowd that attended the Samajotsava at Nehru Maidan. “Surely he is enemy,” the crowd responded as many times as he repeated the

Mangalore, December 2: Despite the hatemongering speech by the Vishwa Hindu Parishat supremo Praveen Togadia, the saffron gathering dispersed almost peacefully from the Nehru Maidan on Sunday evening. The Hindu Samajotsava, which had turned the entire city into saffron, concluded at around 7:00 pm. Thousands of people, who had converged at Nehru Maidan dissolved immediately after Togadia ended his

Mangalore, January 2: Hardline Sangh Parivar leader Pravin Togadia on Sunday lashed out at Congress leaders including P Chidambaram, Rahul Gandhi and Digvijay Singh for their “support to Islamic terrorism” and declared that the Hindu organizations will build a grand Ram Mandir at Ayodhya within two years. Addressing the Hindu Samajotsava here at Nehru Maidan, in his characteristically aggressive

Mangalore, December 22: Saffron organisations are gearing up for the mammoth Hindu Samajothsava in the city to be organised under the banner of Sri Hanumad Shakthi Jagaran Samithi on January 2, as part of their non-legal battle to establish Ram Mandir at the site of demolished Babri Masjid in Faizabad. Addressing media persons here on Wednesday, Prof. M B Puranik, President of the district unit of