Karnataka

Newsroom, Mar 17: At least five Indians have lost their lives while a few more Indian-origin people continue to be “missing” two day after a white supremacist terrorist massacred 49 people and injured many others at two mosques in Christchurch in New Zealand. From Gujarat Mohammad Farhaj Ahsan, the 30-year-old electrical engineer and three Gujaratis including a father-son duo from Vadodara and a

New Delhi, Mar 17: Folk Singer Teejan Bai, Larsen and Toubro chairman Anil Kumar Naik, scientist S Nambi Narayanan, actor Manoj Bajpayee and 106-year-old environmentalist Saalumarada Thimmakka were among the 54 noted citizens conferred the Padma award by President Ram Nath Kovind here on Saturday. Teejan Bai and Naik received the second highest civilian award Padma Vibhushan. RSS leader Darshan

Bengaluru, Mar 16: Resident Welfare Associations and several other organisations held a protest against the construction of an elevated corridor here on Saturday. However, Deputy Chief Minister G Parameshwara said that there is a difference in people's opinion. "People from the north of the city want this steel bridge and people from south Bengaluru do not want the bridge," Parmeshwara told

Wayanad, Mar 16: A final notice has been issued by church authorities to the nun who took part in a protest against rape accused Franco Mullakal, former Bishop of the Jalandhar diocese, asking her to leave her congregation. In its final notice, the Franciscan Clarist Congregation accused Sister Lucy Kalapura, belonging to its St Mary’s province at Mananthavady, of leading a life which was against

Kasaragod, Mar 16: In connection with the case of disappearance of over a dozen people from Kasaragod (who are suspected to have joined terror groups abroad), the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday filed supplementary charge sheet against Nashidul Hamzafar who is accused of hatching a conspiracy along with others with the intention of joining and furthering the objective of proscribed

Bengaluru, Mar 16: Former Chief Minister and state BJP president B S Yeddyurappa, met former External Affairs minister and senior BJP leader, S M Krishna ahead of the crucial core meeting on selection of party’s nominees for the coming general elections, here on Saturday. Both the leaders are expected to discuss about fielding the BJP candidate or to extend support to the cine star, Sumalatha, the

Bengaluru, Mar 16: The Congress party, playing second fiddle to minor partner Janata Dal (S) in Karnataka and had failed to get minimum number of Lok Sabha seats in 2014 to be the recognised as Opposition party, has no issues to go before the people in the coming Lok Sabha elections, senior BJP leader and former Deputy Chief minister of Karnataka, K S Eshwarappa, opined here on Saturday. Speaking

Christchurch, Mat 16: New Zealand's stricken residents reached out to Muslims in their neighborhoods and around the country on Saturday (March 16), with a fierce determination to show kindness to a community in pain as a 28-year-old white supremacist stood silently before a judge, accused in mass shootings at two mosques that left 49 people dead. Brenton Harrison Tarrant appeared in court amid

San Francisco, Mar 16: To tackle the spread of fake news via its platform, WhatsApp’s new beta version shows a test feature that would run Google-powered web-checks on images being shared on the app to verify their legitimacy. Called “Search by Image”, the feature would search an image on the web that a user either sent or received in their chats using official Google application programming

Lucknow, Mar 16: Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) leader Danish Ali on Saturday joined the Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party, ahead of the coming Lok Sabha elections. Danish Ali joined the BSP in the presence of the party's national general secretary Satish Mishra at the BSP office here. According to BSP sources, Ali, who was considered as a top leader in former Prime Minister H.D. Devegowda party, is