Animal rights group PETA will move the Supreme Court challenging the legislation passed by Tamil Nadu and Karnataka state assemblies allowing Jallikattu and Kambala respectively. “We will challenge the legislations in the Supreme Court. We will do it in the next few days. We are consulting our lawyers on whether[Read More…]
The Supreme Court on Monday will hear the plea relating to Cauvery water dispute between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. The issue, which resulted in dispute between the two states for decades, had resulted in violent protests in 2016. Earlier, the top court had asked Karnataka government to allow release of [Read More…]
Karnataka Assembly on Monday passed a bill to facilitate the conduct of “Kambala”, a traditional annual buffalo race held in the coastal districts of the state. The demand for lifting the ban on Kambala garnered massive support after the success of Jallikattu protest in Tamil Nadu. However, a clause in[Read More…]
India may add another feather in its hat as a Bengaluru based company is very close to give India its first indigenous jet engine. Poeir Jets Private Limited, an R&D firm under the city-based Intech DMLS, has earmarked Rs 20 crore for the project, of which about Rs 9 crore[Read More…]
In another shocking event, a 15-year-old girl student of a government school became pregnant after being frequently raped by her guardian for the past several months, said police. Krishnappa, a labourer in Basrikatte village of Karnataka’s Koppal district, took protection of the minor girl together with his blind wife Shanthamma,[Read More…]
Karnataka High Court on Monday decided to await the top court verdict on Jallikattu to decide the fate of Kambala. The interim ban on the annual buffalo race would remain for at least another two weeks. “This honourable court will wait for the Supreme Court order on Jallikattu (bull taming[Read More…]
Three anonymous individuals stole Rs 21 lakh in cash from an ATM on the outskirts of Tumakuru town in southern Karnataka, said police on Tuesday. The ATM of the state-run Karnataka Bank Ltd is located at Gubbi on the ring road, connecting the town to the state highway, about 80[Read More…]
A case of sexual violence has again resurfaced in Bengaluru. Around Lakshmidevi Nagar area in Bengaluru, a 20-year-old woman was allegedly kidnapped, stripped, beaten and tortured. The accused allegedly rubbed chilli powder on her private parts, while her mother was forced to watch. Police arrested five people including three women,[Read More…]
In Bengaluru, you may not be allowed to keep a large dog anymore in your apartments. The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike has sent out a set of draft guidelines for approval, putting restrictions on the number and kind of pets people are permitted to keep. The BBMP’s Animal Husbandry department[Read More…]
An Assistant Sub Inspector raped a mentally challenged woman in Tumkuru , Karnataka. The Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has asked the cop to be arrested and dismissed from service. This is especially shocking as the Karnataka government has adopted a no-tolerance policy in crimes committed by the police. This incident has added to more[Read More…]
A new footage surfaced showing a woman being sexually assaulted by two men in a residential area in Bengaluru on New Year’s Eve. This is the second such incident that comes into the light at a time when the state government and its police are already facing enormous criticism for[Read More…]
After a large number of women were allegedly molested on MG Road and Brigade Road in the heart of Bengaluru by a mob during New Year, Karnataka home minister G Parameshwara reacted on it by saying “these kinds of things do happen”. “In events like New Year or Christmas Day,[Read More…]
Drunken unruly men molested women during the New Year celebration on Saturday night at Brigade Road and MG Road in Bengaluru. A photojournalist from the Bangalore Mirror alleged that he had seen several distraught women approaching police women and complaining that hooligans had molested them and made lewd remarks during the[Read More…]
Excise minister and senior Congress MLA HY Meti resigned on Wednesday after a sex tape allegedly involving him was released on a local TV channel. Although it was claimed the tape was of 30 minutes, the clip that was released on the regional Kannada channels is of 30 seconds only.[Read More…]
Days after G Janardhan Reddy’s daughter’s lavish wedding grabbed headlines for its splash-of-cash, the Income Tax Department has raided the mining baron’s offices in Bellari. Reportedly, a number of documents have been found and are being examined. His residence is also likely to be raided, reported India Today. Reddy, a[Read More…]
Over 30 activists, who organized occupy RBI protest in Bangalore against the demonetisation move, were detained by Bengaluru Police on Thursday. Activists from various organizations including CPI (ML) Liberation, AICCTU, New Socialist Alternative/ Peoples’ Solidarity Concerns, Social Democratic Party of India, Street Hawkers Association and Karnataka Tamil Makkal Aaikyam were[Read More…]
Former Karantaka chief minister and current BJP state unit President BS Yeddyurappa has been acquitted along with fellow accused in the Bellary illegal mining case. A special CBI court in Bengaluru on Wednesday acquitted the BJP strongman along with his two sons and son-in-law along with some JSW Steel affiliates[Read More…]
Cauvery issue has come to rock the city of Chennai again as various farmers’ organizations began their 48-hour ‘rail roko’ agitation in Tiruchi on Monday. Demanding the constitution of Cauvery Management Board, they garnered support from opposition parties like the DMK as former DMK Minister K.N. Nehru courted arrest after[Read More…]
The Supreme Court has reprimanded the Karnataka government for failing to follow the apex court’s order of sharing Cauvery River water with its neighbour Tamil Nadu. Furthermore, in a fresh ruling the Siddaramaiah-led government has been asked to release 6000 cusecs of water every day to Tamil Nadu, starting October[Read More…]
Union Minister Uma Bharti has offered to ‘go on a hunger strike if there is any problem in either Karnataka or Tamil Nadu’, after the government failed to broker a solution to the Cauvery water dispute. Uma Bharti, who is the Water Resources Minister, was asked by the Supreme Court[Read More…]