Bhatkal: Tensions flared on Tuesday following an attempt to install a Devinagar board near the Makkah Masjid at Second Cross on Jali Road in Bahtkal. Despite authorities denying permission, protestors were advised to submit a written memorandum to the Jali Panchayat for further consideration. The

Karwar, Jan 16 (IANS): BJP MP and former Union Minister Anantkumar Hegde on Tuesday challenged Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah for an open debate on decency. Hegde had stirred a controversy by addressing Siddaramaiah as his son while criticising him for issuing statements in connection

Bengaluru, Jan 16 (IANS): At least six persons were injured and five houses damaged due to an LPG cylinder blast in Bengaluru on Tuesday, police said. According to the police, the condition of two injured persons is said to be critical. They have been transferred to Victoria Hospital. The

New Delhi, Jan 15 (IANS): The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) on Monday said that FASTags with incomplete KYC will be deactivated or blacklisted by banks after January 31, as part of its move to enhance efficiency of the electronic toll collection system and provide seamless movemen

Lyricist Javed Akhtar attended funeral of Shayar Munavvar Rana who breathed his last at PGI hospital in Lucknow on Sunday following a cardiac arrest. He was 71 and had been battling with a prolonged illness for the past several months. The mortal remains of the renowned Urdu poet reached his residen

Mandya, Jan 15 (IANS): An elopement case involving a Muslim boy and a 15-year-old Hindu girl took a communal turn with Hindu activists alleging it to be a case of 'love jihad' on Monday. The incident was reported in K.R. Patna police station in Mandya district. The parents of the gir

Kalaburagi, Jan 15 (IANS): Karnataka Police filed an FIR against a headmistress on Monday for making students clean the school toilet in Kalaburagi district of the state. The police filed an FIR against Johar Jabeena, headmistress of the Moulana Azad Model English School on a complaint by th

Acclaimed poet Munawwar Rana passed away at a hospital in Lucknow due to cardiac arrest on Sunday, 14 January. He was 71 years old. "He was hospitalised for 14 to 15 days due to illness. He was first admitted to Medanta in Lucknow and then to SGPGI where he breathed his last around 11 pm tod

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and senior party leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday flagged-off his ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’ from Manipur’s Thoubal. From Manipur to Mumbai in Maharashtra, the yatra will cover around 6,700 kilometres over 67 days and pass through 110 districts

Bengaluru, Jan 13 (IANS): Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi is likely to contest on two seats from Karnataka and Telangana during the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Sources said that AICC -- without informing the local Congress unit -- has already conducted surveys in Koppal constitu

Bengaluru, Jan 13 (IANS): Amid speculation whether his son and former chief minister H. D. Kumaraswamy will get a berth in Union cabinet if BJP wins the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, JD(S) founder H. D. Deve Gowda on Saturday said he does not know what is on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's mind.

A woman named Manju Gupta, in an effort to reduce smartphone dependency within her family, has introduced an innovative disciplinary measure. Fed up with continuous screen time and lack of personal engagement, she implemented rules whose violation would lead to a month-long prohibition from ordering

Hazrat Maulana Khalid Saifullah Rahmani President of All India Muslim Personal Law Board has said in his press note that the concept of Islam about the universe and its creator is very clear and that is that there is only one God, who created it. He created the universe and all its things, He gives

Silchar: An IndiGo flight bound for Guwahati from Mumbai made an emergency landing in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka on Saturday morning amid poor visibility, people aware of the matter said. IndiGo flight 6E 5319 was forced to reroute to Dhaka as it failed to make a landing at Lokpriya Gopin

New York: India's permanent representative to the United Nations, Ruchira Kamboj, strongly condemned the loss of civilian lives in the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas saying that the alarming humanitarian crisis was 'clearly unacceptable'. "The ongoing conflict between Israel

India signed a slew of bilateral cooperation agreements with the United Arab Emirates and the Czech Republic at the Vibrant Gujarat summit.  With the UAE, India reached agreements on healthcare, development of food parks, and renewable energy, while with the Czech Republic it signed a strate

Bengaluru, Jan 10 (IANS): The family of the four-year-old, Chinmay, murdered by his startup CEO mother in Goa, was preparing for the last rites at the Harishchandra Ghat here on Wednesday after which the Goa Police will question his father, said sources. Venkataramana, the father, arrived fr

Koppal, Jan 10 (IANS): The photos and videos of a Muslim family hosting 'anna santarpana (to provide food with gratification)' for Sabarimala pilgrims have gone viral on social media in Karnataka. The gesture was being appreciated by people across the state. Khashim Ali Muddaballi