Karnataka

Bengaluru, Jun 9: The BJP in Karnataka on Sunday alleged that the Congress-JDS coalition has received "kickbacks" for selling 3,667 acres of land, having rich deposits of iron ore, to JSW steel company in Ballari district. The comments by Karnataka BJP Chief B S Yeddyurappa have come a day after chairman and managing director of the steel giant, Sajjan Jindal said that the company never does

Newsroom, Jun 9: The Editors Guild of India and several media associations have strongly condemned the arrests of three journalists - Prashant Kanojia, Ishita Singh and Anuj Shukla, for sharing and broadcasting a woman’s comment on Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath. While freelance journalist Kanojia was arrested for his Twitter activity, Ishita Singh and Anuj Shukla, the head and

Bengaluru, May 9: The police have arrested five persons following the coldblooded murder of a youth over smartphone ludo game at Ilyas Nagar in Kumaraswamy Layout in the city. The victim, Mohammed Ali Shaahib, a fabrication worker hailing from West Bengal, was allegedly stabbed by his friend Sheikh Milan. The incident took place on Friday night when Milan and Shaahib were allegedly placing bets on

Mumbai, Jun 9: Social activist and thinker Ram Puniyani, who had received threats and abuse over phone from unidentified saffron extremists on the night of June 6, has been provided 24 hour police protection. Puniyani, a former IIT Mumbai professor, had filed an FIR with the Mumbai police after he received threat calls. "I am relieved that the police have provided me and my family with round-the

Mangaluru, Jun 9: Aadhya A, a five-year-old girl from the city, set a new world record in hula hoop spun which was confirmed by India Star Book of Records and India Star World Records in the first week of June. Aadhya has spun hula hoop 4000 times continuously in kneeling down position and the total time that she took to spin was around 34 minutes and 25 seconds. Aadhya gave her record setting

We are living in times where the social norms, the values of Constitution have been violated times and over again. The increasing atrocities on dalits, the lynchings of minorities in the name of Cow-Beef have changed the social equations in a drastic way during last few years. This in a way is part of the ascendance of a politics of communalism which believes in narrow, sectarian religious

Madikeri, Jun 9: Kodagu district administration has provided individual houses for the displaced tribals of Diddahalli forests which was developed as modal settlements. Residential colonies coming up in Kodagu for displaced tribals of Diddahalli forests are being developed as ‘model settlements’, putting across facilities usually found in layouts developed in cities, such as well-laid roads, piped

Bengaluru/Hubballi, Jun 9: Chief minister HD Kumaraswamy will review the coalition government’s decision to sell 3,667 acres of land to JSW Steel and take a final call on Sunday. This follows stiff opposition to the deal. Congress leader HK Patil, who has been opposing the sale, and industries minister KJ George will meet the CM on Sunday. “Based on the outcome, the CM will decide whether to go

Bengaluru, Jun 9: A man who used to cite proximity to a Congress minister and collect money from people stating he could get their kids admitted to private schools, has been arrested by Electronics City police on charges of theft. Sudhakar Vakkal , 39, of Naganathapura is accused of stealing a gold chain from a businessman's house. The complainant, Nagaraj of Doddatogur, told police: "I was trying

Mangaluru, Jun 8: A 25-year-old man, hailing from north Karnataka, has been arrested by the police on the charge of murdering a 22-year-old woman in Attavar in Mangaluru. Anjana Vasist, 22, hailing from Tarikere in Chikkamagaluru district, was found dead in a room on Friday evening. She was reportedly strangled to death. The Mangaluru South police on Saturday arrested Sandeep Rathod from his