Karnataka

Bengaluru, Mar 14: Mathe Mahadevi (74), the first female jagadguru of the Lingayat community passed away on Thursday at city's Manipal Hospital due to a cardiac arrest. She was diagnosed with end-stage renal failure and was admitted to the hospital since March 8. Dr Sudarshan Ballal, chairman, Manipal hospitals said Mathe Mahadevi had a long history of diabetes, chronic lung disease and was on

Mangaluru, Mar 14: Congress veteran and former union minister has threatened his party high command that he would contest as a rebel candidate from Dakshina Kannada if the party gives ticket to M N Rajendra Kumar, President of South Canara District Central Co-op Bank Ltd. 82-year-old Poojary, who in the past has served as the General Secretary of All India Congress Committee as well as President

Mysuru, Mar 14: Karnataka Backward Classes Awareness Committee president K S Shivaramu has accused BJP leader and Mysuru-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha of misusing postal department officials for election campaign. Speaking to media persons here Shivaramu said that Pratap Simha is misusing the service of postman to send booklets of his achievements to the households. "He (Simha) has printed 50,000

Kasaragod, Mar 14: Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday met the family members of three Youth Congress workers murdered by the miscreants allegedly belonging to CPI (M) in Kerala. Mr Gandhi visted the houses of two slain youth congress workers, Kripesh and Sarath Lal, at Kallyot at Periya in Kasaragod district. The two were hacked to death by assailants allegedly masterminded by CPI(M)

Bengaluru, Mar 14: The All India Veerashaiva Mahasabha, the representative organisation of the Veerashaiva-Lingayat community in Karnataka will not direct the community members to support any one political party in the coming general elections. Addressing newsmen here on Thursday, former minister and senior Congress leader, Shamanur Shivashankarappa, who was re-elected as the National President of

Udupi, Mar 14: After Congress decided to sacrifice Udupi–Chikkamagaluru constituency to Janata Dal (Secular) as per seat sharing pact, at least four aspirants in the regional party have started lobbying hard for the ticket. According to Vasudeva Rao, working president, JD(S) district unit, three names were in contention in the party: S L Dharme Gowda, Deputy Chairman of Legislative Council, S L

Mar 14: Facebook Inc said on Wednesday some users around the world were facing trouble in accessing its widely used Instagram, Whatsapp and Facebook apps, making it one of the longest outages the company has suffered in the recent past. The Menlo Park, California-based company took to Twitter to inform users that it was working to resolve the issue, which had been plaguing some users for over 10

Bantwal, Mar 14: A teacher of a school at Mogarnad in Bantwal taluk of Dakshina Kannada district has been booked for alleged corporal punishment. According to a press release from Superintendent of Police B.M. Laxmi Prasad, during a social studies class at the school on Tuesday teacher Abdul Khader is said to have found a mistake in the notebook of the student. The teacher allegedly pressed the

Bengaluru, Mar 13: Breaking the logjam over the long-drawn seat-sharing deliberations, coalition partners Congress and JD(S) on Wednesday finally came to an agreement. The Congress will contest 20 Lok Sabha seats, while the JD(S) will field its candidates in eight constituencies including two in coastal belt of Karnataka. The JD(S), which had rattled the Congress by demanding 12 out of the 28

Hassan, Mar 13: The JD(S) has officially declared that Prajwal Revanna, the grandson of the former prime minister H D Deve Gowda will be the party candidate from the Hassan Lok Sabha seat in the April-18 General elections. In an election rally, Gowda officially declared Prajwal, son of State Public Works Minister HD Revanna, as the party's candidate. Mr Gowda, who is presently representing the