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Bengaluru, Dec 17: Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Tuesday made it clear that only those MLAs who won the recent by-polls will be made ministers and no one else. With cabinet expansion on the cards ever since the BJP secured a comfortable majority in the Assembly by winning 12 of the 15 constituencies which went to byelections on December five, hectic lobbying has started for

Shivamogga, Dec 17: State BJP President Nalin Kumar Kateel on Tuesday said that the Congress is an anti-national party as it is creating communal violence in the country by misguiding Muslims on the the Citizenship (Amendment) Act. Kateel said that the Act is not aimed at troubling Muslims but safeguarding interests of minorities in Pakistan and Bangladesh. He was speaking at District BJP special

Bantwal, Dec 17: The police on Tuesday registered cases against four members of governing body of Sri Rama Vidya Kendra at Kalladka in Dakshina Kannada district for recreating the Babri Masjid demolition by students during school annual day event. The cases were booked against RSS leader Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat, who runs the school, Narayan Somayyaji, Vasanth Madhav and Chinnappa Kotiyan. They

Managaluru, Dec 17: The Dakshina Kannada district police have arrested a 45-year-old man under Pocso Act for allegedly making sexual advances at a 10-year-old girl. The accused has been identified as Shivarama, who reportedly has two wives and has two children from one wife and three from another. The incident occurred at Dolpaty village in Kadaba taluk when the girl was returning from school on

Mangaluru, Dec 17: A 36-year-old man has been sentenced life imprisonment by a local court for raping his 13-year-old daughter. Though the incident took place in 2016, when the minor’s mother was admitted to a hospital for delivery, it came to light a year after. The second additional district and sessions court hearing Pocso cases pronounced the judgement. C Venkataramana Swamy, special public

Kuala Lumpur: Turbulence of today’s chaotic global scenario is a caution to world leaders of all the nations, to focus more on planet health than looking about individual and community health; said Dr. CP Habeeb Rahman, Chairman of Unity Health Complex. He was addressing leaders from various organisations from over a hundred nations who were gathered at Kuala Lumpur to discuss about collective

Bengaluru, Dec 17: A four-year-old LKG student was killed after his reversing school bus mowed him down, seconds after he alighted from it near Anekal on Monday. The bus (KA 51-B-8697), attached to St Peter’s school, Hebbagodi, had no attendant. Y Dikshit, a resident of Kammasandra, came under its rear wheels at 12.45pm when he got down and was walking home, around 10 feet away. Driver Channappa

Belagavi, Dec 17: A woman allegedly murdered her own son and sister-in-law when they came to know of her affair with a man in the village. The woman and her lover have been arrested for the murders that took place in Bellad Bagewaadi village of Hukkeri taluk, Belagavi. The crime came to light on Monday when police arrested the accused on Sunday night. The deceased are Bhagyashree Karigar, 32, and

Bengaluru, Dec 17: Chief minister BS Yediyurappa is under immense pressure to nominate his deputy Laxman Savadi to the legislative council to enable him to continue in office. Savadi, a former MLA, took oath as minister in August, hoping the party will give him a ticket to contest the byelections from Athani. However, the party denied him the ticket and instead promised him a berth in the upper

Mangaluru, Dec 16: Exhorting the people to learn the religion with an open mind, Islamic orator Muhammad Kunhi said that acquiring knowledge about one’s own religion will help to eliminate misconceptions about other religions. In an interaction programme with the local newsmen organised by the Highland Islamic Forum (HIF) as part of its campaign to spread the message of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) at