Karnataka

Mangaluru, Jan 2: B M Lakshmi Prasad, who took charge as the new Superintendent of Police of Dakshina Kannada district yesterday, has stressed on people-friendly policing and having mutual respect between the police and the public. Talking to reporters, Mr. Prasad said it was necessary for the police to have a patient hearing of people’s problems. “There is a kind of fear about police in the minds

Mangaluru, Jan 2: A thief or a gang of thieves struck at a medical store near state bank bus terminus in the heart of the city and decamped with Rs 5.5 lakh cash in the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday. The unidentified miscreants gained entry in to the medical store after breaking into an adjoining shop. “They broke in to the adjoining shop where the owner had kept around Rs 500. Then

Bengaluru, Jan 2: Former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda Wednesday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for taking a jibe at the Karnataka government's farm loan waiver scheme and questioned him about demonetisation and the Ram mandir issue. "I have observed taunting statements of @narendramodion Karnataka's crop loan waiver scheme. Dear PM, more than60,000 farmers have already received money

Bengaluru, Jan 2: The Janata Dal(Secular) National President and former Prime Minister H D Devegowda has convened a meeting of the party’s senior leaders on Jan 4 to chalk out strategies for the 2019 Lok Sabha election. According to party sources, senior party leaders including Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy, State President H Vishwanath, former Legislative Council Protem Chairman

Bengaluru, Jan 2: Former Karnataka chief minister and Congress leader Siddaramaiah on Wednesday challenged the BJP to come clean on its alleged attempts to bribe his party MLAs to destabilise the coalition government in the state. The Congress leaders are locked in a war of attrition with the BJP ever since the ministry was recently expanded and reshuffled, amid reports that the saffron party was

Bengaluru, Jan 2: Identification of illegal immigrants, fighting against drug menace and maintaining law and order are among the top in the agenda of the Karnataka Police, Home Minister M B Patil said here on Wednesday. Addressing a press conference after holding a review meeting with the senior officials of his department here, he said that “the state police are on the verge of cracking the

Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 2: Police fired tear gas, stun grenades and water cannon as protests and clashes erupted across the southern state of Kerala after two women entered the flashpoint Sabarimala temple, local media reported. Violent clashes were reported between scores of people in front of the state parliament in Thiruvananthapuram, while protests with sporadic violence were also reported in

New Delhi, Jan 2: The women wing of All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) on Tuesday criticised the Triple Talaq Bill, which is likely to be tabled in Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, stating that the "ill-drafted legislation gives a false sense of women empowerment". The Triple Talaq Bill makes the practice of instant divorce among Muslims a criminal offence with a provision of three-year jail

Mangaluru, Jan 2: A 24-year-old budding advocate, hailing from Vittla in Bantwal taluk of Dakshina Kannada passed away after a brief illness. Muhammad Shafi, son of K A Hasainar is the deceased. He is survived by his parents, two brothers and two sisters. After completing his graduation at Vivekananda Law College, Puttur, he was practicing under a senior advocate of Karnataka High Court. A few

Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 2: Two women below 50 walked into the Sabarimala temple in Kerala before daybreak on Wednesday, becoming the first to do so since the Supreme Court ordered the end of a decades-old ban on women of menstrual age entering the shrine. The temple has been shut for ritual "purification". Bindu and Kanaka Durga, both in their early 40s, entered the hilltop shrine early this