Karnataka

Bengaluru, Dec 31: Veteran Kannada actor Lokanath has passed away on Monday, 31 December. He was suffering from age-related ailments. He was 90 and survived by four daughters and a son. According to our sources, he breathed his last around 12.10 am after suffering a cardiac arrest. His mortal remains will be kept for public to pay homage at Ravindra Kalakshetra between 12 and 2.30 pm. He was born

Bengaluru, Dec 31: Clearing the decks for a third-generation politician in the family, JD(S) supremo H D Deve Gowda on Saturday announced that grandson Prajwal Revanna would contest from Hassan constituency in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Gowda said: “I have spoken to senior leaders of Hassan district. Prajwal has been working continuously for the past eight years in the district and has not gone

Bengaluru, Dec 31: Senior Karnatakapolice officer Roopa Moudgil has filed a complaint with cybercrime police against an Instagram user for fraudulently collecting donations in her name.The unidentified Instagram user had created a fake account in Roopa's name that included her photos and a post seeking donations for destitute women, Roopa told here. A case has been registered under relevant

Bengaluru, Dec 31: The hurried cremation of a woman has proved costly for her husband and his mother, who have been denied bail by the high court. Refusing bail to Bharatesh and his mother Sunanda, the court said the unnecessary urgency in cremating the body, before the arrival of the woman’s parents, gave rise to questions to which the mother-son duo had no answers. The court noted that the

Bengaluru, Dec 31: Terming Prime Minister Narendra Modi's remarks against the farm loan waiver scheme of Karnataka's coalition government unfortunate, Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy on Sunday reeled out figures to defend it. "The Prime Minister's remarks on our loan waiver is incorrect and unfortunate," said Kumaraswamy in a statement his office issued here. Interacting with BJP's booth workers

Mangaluru, Dec 30: A pall of gloom descended on Yadadi village, about 30 km from Udupi, when the body of IPS officer Madhukar Shetty was brought to his native place on Saturday night. Public, officials and people’s representatives started paying their last respects to the much-admired police officer from 8 am on Sunday. Later, the mortal remains of Shetty were consigned to flames after full state

Udupi, Dec 30: Two weeks since it went missing off Goa coast, the search for the missing fishing boat ‘Suvarna Tribhuja’ with seven fishermen on board from Malpe, continues without any concrete evidence about the fate of the vessel. The boat had left for fishing from Udupi’s Malpe fishing harbour on December 13. The last communication from the boat was on December 15. Raghupati Bhat, MLA, told

Madikeri, Dec 30: Despite coffee district of Kodagu getting back to normal, footfall in the famous tourist destination nestled in serene Western Ghats has not witnessed much improvement as expected with hotels and resorts seeing poor occupancy. Kodagu has seen an unprecedented drop in tourist arrivals this year. Tourism has not picked up after the devastating floods and landslides the coffee land

Mysuru, Dec 30: Writer and thinker Prof K S Bhagavan, who has incurred the wrath of hardline Hindutva outfits by criticising the controversial acts of Hindu religious figures has said it’s his duty to promote rationalism and scientific temper. A day after a police complaint was registered against him for allegedly insulting religious beliefs in his recently released book Rama Mandira – Eke Beda?

Honnavar, Dec 30: Around a dozen civilians, who had visited Basavaraja Durga Island, off the Honnavar coast in Uttara Kannada district, without permit, were sent back by the Coast Guard personnel yesterday. Located in the Arabian Sea, the uninhabited island has a total area of 19 hectares and an elevation of 45 to 50m. There are a number of fresh water wells. The island can be reached by boat