Karnataka

Bengaluru, Feb 13: Well known Kannada Film Producer Jayashridevi passed away following brief illness at Apollo hospital in Hyderabad on Wednesday. She was 60. She was survived by her adopted son Vasu. Ms Jayashtridevi had produced films like Bhavani, Nammura Mandara Hoove, Amruta Varshini, Sri Manjunatha, Nishabdha, Kona Eeedite and other popular films. She was also executive producer of recently

Bengaluru, Feb 13: Congress MLA Ramesh Jarkiholi, who had been missing for the last 10 days, arrived in Bengaluru on Tuesday night after his party recommended disqualification of four of its MLAs for not attending the ongoing Karnataka Assembly budget session. Jarkiholi had also not attended the Congress Legislature Party meet ahead of the budget session. On Monday, the Karnataka Congress had

Aligarh, Feb 13: In a shocking development, 14 students of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) in Uttar Pradesh were charged with sedition after a group of aggressive journalists belonging to Republic TV entered the campus without permission and fought with students under the pretext of reporting last evening. The journalists were backed by the activists of Sangh Parivar who not only thrashed the

Mangaluru, Feb 13: The five-day Brahma Rathothsava of Sri Lakshmi Venkatarama temple on Car Street here ended today with colourful 'Okkuli'. A large number of men, women, children alike with their faces, head and clothes drenched with colours gathered on Car Street for the event. The event was watched by hundreds of women and children from their houses and buildings on Car Street. Devotees, mainly

New Delhi, Feb 13: The Popular Front of India (PFI) has termed the ban imposed by on it by the Jharkhand state government asundemocratic and unconstitutional. In a release issued here the PFI said: “From the news carried by a section of media, we came to know that as per a notice issued by the State Home Department on Tuesday, Jharkhand government has banned PFI in the State. We strongly condemn

Begaluru, Feb 13: As many as 8,41,649 students from 14,454 schools across the State will be taking up the Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC) examination from March 21 to April 4. The Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board (KSEEB) set earlier dates owing to the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections. A press release stated on Tuesday that the exams would be conducted at 2,847 centres –

Mangaluru, Feb 13: A local court has sentenced a 44-year-old man to 10 years imprisonment and imposed on him a fine of Rs. 16,000 on finding him guilty of making an attempt to murder his wife. First Additional District and Sessions Judge Sharada B announced the quantum of punishment. According to the charge-sheet filed by the Ullal Police, Ravi stabbed his wife Rekha (38), a Home Guard, after she

Bengaluru, Feb 13: A city-based businessman, who has defaulted on income tax payments with arrears of Rs. 11.94 crore plus interest, was on Tuesday detained to a civil prison at Parappana Agrahara Central Jail for six months for failing to make satisfactory arrangement for payment of arrears, officials said. In a press release, the income tax department said the business was arrested by the Tax

Bengaluru, Feb 13: The drama over the alleged poaching audio clip continued for the second consecutive day in the legislative assembly on Tuesday with both the opposition and ruling parties agreeing to a probe into the issue. However, both sides differed on the mode of inquiry. While the BJP continued to press for a judicial probe or a House committee to inquire into the contents of the audio clip

Bengaluru, Feb 13: Refuting charges that he sent Sharanagouda, son of JD(S) MLA Naganagouda Kandakur, to Devadurga to meet state BJP president BS Yeddyurappa on the night of February 7 with the intention to trap him, chief minister HD Kumaraswamy insisted on Tuesday that it was BJP leaders who invited Sharanagouda to the Devadurga inspection bungalow. “Sharanagouda got 25 calls on that night,”