Mangaluru: Popular Front of India (PFI) and Campus Front of India (CFI) has termed the anti-Hijab agitation launched by a group of students belonging to Hindutva groups as “undemocratic.” PFI and CFI have urged concerned authorities to maintain the status quo in allowing Muslim girls to wear un

Mangaluru: In a bizzare protest to exert pressure on the Principal to impose ban on Muslim girl’s Hijab – traditional veil inside college, about 50 boys have started coming to college with saffron shawl. Interestingly, the Dr K Shivaram Karanth Government First Grade College and Post Graduation C

Bengaluru: Malls and high-rise buildings, including apartments, built illegally on storm water drains of the city would be demolished to prevent flooding after heavy rains, Karnataka Law Minister T.B. Jayachandra said on Wednesday. “We are determined to demolish all buildings constructed illegall

Bengaluru, Sep 1: Bengaluru is in third place among the most unsafe metro cities in India. As per the data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), a total of 35,576 FIRs were registered in Bengaluru, while 1.73 lac incidents were reported in Delhi and 42,940 in Mumbai in 2015. As many as 2

Udupi, Aug 22: Fake notes were found at Syndicate bank currency chest and a complaint has been lodged about the same. As per details, 21 notes amounting Rs 13,000 were found between 1 December 2015 and May 31 this year. Out of them, 5 notes are of Rs 1,000 denomination and 16 notes are of Rs 500

Udupi (Karnataka): In a brutal incident of cow vigilantism, a BJP worker was killed and another person injured allegedly by VHP and Bajrang Dal activists who waylaid and attacked them near Hebri in this district last night. Praveen Poojary (28) and Akshay Devadiga (20) were surrounded and attacke

Bengaluru, Aug 13: At a time when the government is dilly-dallying in the matter of revising salary and perquisites of government employees, transport staff, policemen etc, some legislators have urged the government to hike their remuneration, although a hike was already given to them last year.

MANGALURU: BJP national president Amit Shah and union minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy will be in Mangaluru to take part in various programmes to be held under the aegis of party's Dakshina Kannada district unit as part of the 70th Independence Day celebration. Union minister of state for skill developmen

Bengaluru, Aug 10: Sheikh Amir Ali, named as main accused in serial church bomb blasts case in the state, was arrested after a gap of 16 years. He was taken into custody from Hyderabad on Tuesday August 9 in a joint operation conducted by Telangana state police and Karnataka criminal investigation d

The trailer of an LPG tanker fell into a stream near Udane on the Mangaluru-Bengaluru National Highway on Tuesday afternoon leading to diversion of traffic. As the LPG leaked into the stream, which joins the Kumaradhara, alerts were sent to villagers downstream not to use water for around five hours

MANGALURU: Jet Airways has started a new daily service between Mangaluru and Sharjah from Sunday. Addition of this new service will bolster Jet Airways offering to the Gulf market, further strengthening the airline's growing network and significantly enhance connectivity for guests. With the additio

Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday flew to Brussels to see his elder son Rakesh, who was admitted to a university hospital in Belguim after falling ill while on a tour to Europe, an official said. “The Chief Minister had to rush to Belgium at short notice as Rakesh was u

Bengaluru, July 28, 2016, DHNS:The three-day strike by the employees of the four state transport corporations ended on Wednesday with trade unions agreeing for a 12.5% hike in wages. The unions had been demanding a 35% hike. The salary revision will cost the STCs an additional Rs 700 crore a year

HUBBALI 27 July, 2016: Three passenger travelling in a private bus charred to death after the bus caught fire on the Pune-Bengaluru highway near Hubballi. The mishap occurred on Wednesday early morning at Varur village which located about 10 km from Hubballi. The ill fated bus belonging to Durgam

Talks between govt., transport unions stalled; one bus service resumes in Mandya Bengaluru, 26 July, 2016:The strike by employees of road transport corporations entered the second day, causing confusion and chaos on the roads as no buses plied on Tuesday as well. Several people switched over to a

"If they are Hindus, what are we then," asked a young Dalit. SHANTIPURA (CHIKKAMAGALURU), July 26, 2016 : “If they are Hindus, what are we then,” asked a young man, who was part of a group gathered outside the house of Balaraj, one of the five Dalits attacked on July 10, allegedly by a Hindutva g

Bengaluru: Condemning the Chikmagalur attack on a Dalit family by the members of Bajrang Dal over rumours of cooking beef, Karnataka’s Urban Development Minister R. Roshan Baig on Sunday said the state will not tolerate moral policing in the name of religion. “The Dalits are beaten up by the so c

Bengaluru, Jul 24, 2016, (PTI) : More than one lakh employees of state-owned Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation will launch an indefinite strike from this midnight to press for their demand of hike in salary. As many as 23,000 buses of KSRTC will stay off the roads, including in Bengaluru