Bengaluru, Aug 11: Several Congress leaders are said to be lobbying for the party ticket to contest the upcoming by-election to the Karnataka Legislative Council.
Prominent among the ticket aspirants are former minister Rani Satish, former legislator Nazeer Ahmed, G C Chandrashekar, Ramachandrappa, M S Basavaraju and Vinay Karthik.
The bypoll has been necessitated due to the death of BJP MLC Vimala Gowda recently. The byelection is scheduled for August 31.
Davanagere, Jan 9: Residents of SVR colony of Channagiri Taluq here on Thursday built a temple in the memory of a male monkey, who died here 'unexpectedly'.
A group of monkeys entered the SVR colony around three months back. The monkeys have never disturbed anybody in the area and they used to play with children living in the colony.
Locals said that the monkeys are very obedient to them.
Unfortunately, one of the monkeys died suddenly on Wednesday, causing distress among people who were very fond of him.
Showing their love for the deceased monkey, locals performed his final rite according to Hindu tradition.
Later, the residents approached the president of the village Panchayat to allot funds to build a temple in the monkey's memory.
The construction of the temple has already begun in the area at the same place where the monkey's funeral was conducted.
Bengaluru, Feb 20: Leaving the organisers of an event to protest against the CAA, NRC and NRP here red-faced, a young woman on Thursday reportedly raised "Pakistan Zindabad" slogan in the presence of AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi, who denounced her action and asserted "we are for India".
The woman, identified as Amulya, allegedly asked people to shout with her "Pakistan Zindabad" after the organisers of the event under the banner of "Save Constitution" invited her to address the gathering soon after Owaisi came on the stage.
Soon Owaisi rushed to snatch the mike from her hands and was joined by others who tried to remove her from the state.
But the woman was adamant and raised the slogan again repeatedly. Later, the police stepped in and removed her from the dais.
Owaisi then addressed the gathering, saying he did not agree with the woman.
"Neither me nor my party has any link with her. We denounce her. The organisers should not have invited her here. If I knew this, I would not have come here. We are for India and we no way support our enemy nation Pakistan. Our entire drive is to save India," the AIMIM MP said.
JD(S) corporator Imran Pasha claimed she was planted by some rival group to disrupt the event.
The woman, he said, was not in the list of speakers and demanded that the police investigate the matter seriously.
Sources say Amulya hails from Chikkamagaluru and her parents have always been in the forefront of taking on government and its policies for well over a decade.
As per local TV reports, the student was taken to Upparpet police station, but later shifted to an undisclosed destination for more questioning.
Mangaluru, Apr 4: Dakshina Kannada district deputy commissioner (DC) Sindhu B Rupesh in an official reminder has ordered milk unions to disburse about 5,000 litres of milk to residents of notified and non-notified slums, construction labourers and migrant labourers and their families in shelters in the district.
A decision regarding the free distribution of milk to such needy families was taken in a meeting by the chief minister on April 1.
The DC has ordered cooperative milk unions in the district to distribute milk to such families from April 4 till April 14.
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