Thousands of members of the Christian community including religious leaders carried out a silent protest march from Bishop Sargent School to Tomlinson Church in Tumakuru city on Monday condemning the petrol bomb attack on Tomlinson Church. They urged the State government to arrest the culprit and to provide protection to their community. Head of Church of South India of Central […]
» Read moreBengaluru Development Minister K.J. George resigned from the Cabinet on Monday evening, hours after a JMFC court at Madikeri ordered filing of FIR against him and two top police officers in connection with the alleged suicide of Deputy Superintendent of Police M.K. Ganapathy. The deceased officer had, in a television interview before his death, alleged harassment by the three. Chief […]
» Read moreA church in Tumakuru city was attacked by a person yet to be identified in the wee hours of Thursday. At around 4.10 a.m., a person who had covered his face stood outside the Tomlinson Church, near Sira Gate, and hurled a lit beer bottle filled with petrol. He later hurled two more beer bottles standing outside the locked gate, […]
» Read moreHindustani maestro Bade Ghulam Ali Khan once complimented the legendary Carnatic vocalist M.S. Subbulakshmi, “You are not Subbulakshmi, you are Suswaralakshmi (goddess of perfect tone).” A Kannada translation of ‘MS: A life in Music’, a book by T.J.S. George, aptly bears the nameSuswaralakshmi Subbulakshmi . Journalist Jayaprakash Narayana took up the translation. He has handled several translations, including writings of […]
» Read moreA Nigerian woman was tied with a rope by the police here in a bid to restrain her after she allegedly attacked shopkeepers and policemen in an inebriated condition at National Market. Authorities at K.C. General Hospital claimed that the woman, in her late 20s and identified as Mariam, had to be physically pinned down before being sedated. The African […]
» Read moreActor and former Housing Minister M.H. Ambareesh sent his resignation letter to the MLA’s post to the Deputy Speaker’s office through an aide on Monday noon, due to dropped from Cabinet. However, Deputy Speaker Shivashankara Reddy, who is currently officiating as Speaker, has rejected the resignation letter on the grounds that the MLA has failed to personally handover the resignation as […]
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