Karnataka

Bengaluru, Apr 25: Mahesh Vikram Hegde, the editor of Post Card News, which is notorious for producing fake news to promote BJP and to spread communal hatred, was taken into custody by the Karnataka police yesterday for circulating a fake and inciting letter that was falsely attributed to Karnataka home minister and Congress leader M B Patil to defame him and his party during Lok Sabha polls

Bengaluru, Apr 24: The Janata Dal(S) in Karnataka will not field its candidate for the Kundagol and Chincholi Assembly seats, for which by-elections will be held on May 19 as both the seats were won by coalition partner Congress and the party will support its candidate. Speaking to newsmen, the JD(S) National president and the former prime minister H D Devegowda, informed that “In both the by

Bengaluru, Apr 24: Amid reports of one year old JD(S)-Congress coalition government in Karnataka facing uncertain future due to dissident activities within, BJP state unit has called a meeting of its Core Committee meeting in the city on April 25. Party sources said here on Wednesday that State unit president, B S Yeddyurappa, who is also chairman of the committee, had convened the meeting

Colombo, Apr 24: Mohamed Hasan has barely left his home in Colombo since a string of deadly blasts hit Sri Lanka on Sunday, afraid he could be attacked because he is Muslim. He has a job at a printing press, but the 41-year-old's family have begged him to stay home. "They are worried that if I go out, will I be able to come back alive?" he told AFP outside the Jumma mosque in Dematagoda, where he

Bengaluru, Apr 24: An estimated 68.15 % of the 2.43 crore electorate voted on Tuesday in Karnataka's remaining 14 Lok Sabha seats across the state's western and northern regions, an official said. "The overall voter turnout is 67.66 after polling ended at 6 p.m., with all those in the queue by then also casting their ballot," a poll official said. Among the 14 seats, Shivamogga in Malnad region

Bengaluru, Apr 24: Karnataka High Court today granted conditional bail to Kampli Congress MLA J N Ganesh who was accused of allegedly attacking his fellow party MLA Ananda Singh in a resort in the city, after he spent over 90 days in judicial custody. The Single Bench Judge Justice B A Patil granted bail to Ganesh asking him to present Rs two lakh personal bond and two sureties of equal amount

Poonch, Apr 24: Rehana Bashir the first woman from Jammu and Kashmir's Salwah village in Poonch district, who has cracked the coveted civil service exams, says schools in her area need better infrastructure and if she is posted there she will work to improve facilities. “Schools here need better infrastructure. If I get a posting here, I will definitely think about it. I am happy that my dream to

Bengaluru, Apr 24: The bodies of those killed in the serial bomb blast in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on April 21, brought by special flight at Kempegowda International Airport here, according to the Deputy Secretary State Protocol Vijay Mahantesh, who is also the Director of the State Hospitality Organisation. While the body of Shettipalya Ramakrishnappa Nagaraj reached by Sri Lankan Airlines UL 171 last

Mangaluru/Udupi, Apr 24: Moderate rains lashed parts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts in Coastal Karnataka last evening providing the people a respite from sweltering heat which they were experiencing for the last few weeks. Sullia, Guthigar, Madappady, Kallaje and surrounding areas in Dakshina Kannada received rain even as there was cloudy weather in the entire district. According to India

Mangaluru, Apr 24: Customs personnel at Mangaluru International Airport on Sunday seized 1.1 kg gold valued at Rs. 35.32 lakh that was being allegedly smuggled into the country by overseas passengers. Gold was seized from passengers coming from Qatar’s Doha by Air India Express. The passengers were arrested later. The sleuths arrested a passenger with 462.97 grams of gold valued at Rs. 14.81 lakh