Chamarajanagar (Karnataka) | At a time when Karnataka is witnessing communal flare up, the story of a Muslim man building the Lord Ganesha temple near Chikkahole reservoir in Chamarajanagar district has won hearts. P. Rahman, who continues to work as the gatekeeper at the Chikkahole reservoir, is being appreciated for his noble gesture across the state. […]
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4 of family killed in AC explosion in Karnataka’s Vijaynagara
Vijayanagara (Karnataka) | In a tragic incident of fire mishap due to an explosion in Air Conditioner (AC), a couple and their two children were killed in the early hours of Friday in Mariyammanahalli village of Karnataka’s Vijayanagara district. The house was also gutted in the incident. The deceased have been identified as Venkat Prashanth (42), […]
Leave us alone: Karnataka Muslim girl Muskan Khan’s father tells Al-Qaeda chief
Mandya (Karnataka) | Terror outfit Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri’s praise for Karnataka student B.V. Muskan Khan — who had received widespread attention for her “Allahu Akbar” slogans while confronting a mob chanting “Jai Shri Ram”, has received a cold shoulder from her father Mohammed Hussain. Reacting to Muskan’s video and praising her, al-Zawahiri called the Mandya […]
Y-category security for Karnataka HC judges who gave Hijab verdict
Bengaluru | The Karnataka government has decided to beef up security for the High Court Judges who are part of the Special Bench that ruled against the plea for allowing Muslim girl students to wear hijab in school and college classrooms. Karnataka government’s decision comes in the wake of death threats to the judges from certain […]
Karnataka HC dismisses plea seeking permission to wear hijab in classrooms
Bengaluru | The Karnataka High Court’s special bench on Tuesday dismissed petitions filed by students seeking direction for permission to wear hijab in classrooms. The court said, “Wearing of hijab was not an essential part of Islam.” “The prescription of uniform is constitutional and students can’t object to it.” The court dismissed all the petitions filed […]
Aadhaar card reunites speech impaired boy with his mother after 6 years
Bengaluru | In a joint operation, authorities in Karnataka and Maharashtra managed to reunite a speech impaired boy with his mother after six years with the help of fingerprints on an Aadhaar card. The boy, B. Bharath Kumar, had gone missing in 2016 from a market when his mother, Parvathamma, was selling vegetables. Parvathamma had lodged […]
Hijab row: Karnataka Congress leader arrested in Hyderabad
Kalaburagi (Karnataka) | The Karnataka Police on Tuesday arrested Congress leader Mukarram Khan in Hyderabad for making a controversial statement on hijab. Khan had given provocative statements during the protests on the hijab row, which had gone viral. In the video, he had said that those who oppose students wearing hijab will be ‘chopped to pieces’ […]
Karnataka boy’s death in Ukraine: BJP MLA says more students can be brought in place of body
Dharwad (Karnataka) | Karnataka BJP MLA Arvind Bellad stirred a controversy on Thursday by stating that more students could be brought back in the place of a dead body, while answering a question on the plight of students from the state and bringing back the body of medical student Naveen Shekarappa Gyanagoudar, who was killed in […]
Karnataka HC upholds 10-year jail term for ‘rapist’ father
Bengaluru | Karnataka High Court has upheld a 2016 judgement of a lower court that handed down 10 years imprisonment to a man for sexually assaulting his then 13-year-old daughter. The court has also dismissed the accused father’s appeal. A bench headed by Justice K.S. Mudagal, in a recent judgment, did not consider the argument of […]
This reason made former cop become car thief, arrested
Bengaluru | Karnataka police have arrested a former Bahraini policeman who took to crime to treat his son ailing with cancer, police said here on Wednesday. The arrested person is identified as 61-year-old Nazeer Ahmad Imran a.k.a Pilakal Nazeer, a native of Kerala. According to police, Nazeer served as a cop in Bahrain for 9 years […]