Karnataka

Bengaluru, Nov 9: Disqualified MLA Roshan Baig, who was expelled from the Congress for anti-party activities, on Saturday said he would volunteer for the construction of Ram Temple in Ayodhya. You (Hindus) build the Ram Temple. We will also volunteer. Please take us along. We will also ask you to join us to build the mosque on the land given to us. Together we build the mosque and temple, the

Bengaluru, Nov 9: The Congress in Karnataka on Saturday expressed hope that the ruling BJP would not use the Supreme Court verdict on the Ram Janmbhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute case for gaining "political mileage" and would conduct "responsibly". ".. this should not be seen as victory of any party or an ideology or an organisation. It is a court verdict, not anyone else. Supreme Court, after

Bengaluru, Nov 9: The Sriram Sena chief Pramod Muthalik on Saturday welcomed the Supreme Court verdict on Ayodhya dispute and termed it "historic". "It is a historic judgement. We welcome it," Muthalik told PTI. "It is a victory of Hindus after their 500 years of struggle and sacrifices", he said. Noting that the verdict has satisfied the "general sentiments", Muthalik appealed to the Centre to

Lucknow, Nov 9: Chairperson Zafar Ahmad Farooqui of the Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board, one of the main litigants in the Ram Janmbhoomi-Babri Masjid case, on Saturday welcomed the Supreme Court verdict and said it has no plans to challenge it. "We welcome the Supreme Court verdict in the case. The Board has no plans to challenge it," he said. "As of now, the verdict is being studied

Mangaluru, Nov 9: Supreme Court Judge Justice S A Nazeer, who was a member of the five Judge constitutional Bench that pronounced the verdict on politically-sensitive and century-old Ram-Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title suit case, hails from Karnataka’s Dakshina Kannada district and is an alumnus of SDM Law College, here. Born in Moodbidri, Justice Nazeer practiced in the Karnataka High Court for 20

Bengaluru, Nov 9: BJP's Karnataka unit chief Nalin Kumar Kateel on Saturday urged members of all communities to help build the Ram Temple in Ayodhya considering it as the construction of 'Rashtra Mandir'. Terming the unanimous judgment delivered by the five-judge bench of Supreme Court historic, Kateel said the dispute pertaining to the birthplace of Lord Ram that persisted for five centuries has

Bengaluru, Nov 9: Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Saturday urged people of the state to "wholeheartedly welcome" the Supreme court verdict in the sensitive Ayodhya land dispute case, and not to react "emotionally." Yediyurappa said that the judgement is neither a victory nor a defeat for anyone. "Let us all wholeheartedly welcome the Supreme Court verdict. This is neither a victory for

New Delhi, Nov 9: The Supreme Court in a unanimous verdict on Saturday cleared the way for the construction of a Ram Temple at the disputed site at Ayodhya, and directed the Centre to allot a 5-acre plot to the Sunni Waqf Board for building a mosque. In one of the most important and most anticipated judgements in India's history, a 5-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi

Bengaluru, Nov 9: Two Karnataka Premier League franchisees whose names have cropped up prominently in the ongoing match-fixing scandal in the T20 tournament, and who allegedly influenced cricketers CM Gautam and Abrar Kazi to fix matches, also own teams in the T10 League in Abu Dhabi that have some of international cricket’s biggest names on their roasters. Gautam, a former Karnataka Ranji captain

New Delhi, Nov 9: The Supreme Court on Saturday said the underlying structure below the disputed site at Ayodhya was not an Islamic structure, but the ASI has not established whether a temple was demolished to build a mosque. The observation by a 5-judge Constitution bench, headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, was made in its verdict in the politically sensitive case of Ram Janmbhoomi-Babri