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A day after a 111-year-old chief of the Siddaganga Mutt, Shivakumara Swamy was laid to rest, the Congress has targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not attending his funeral. Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister G Parameshwara took to Twitter to question the Prime Minister’s absence and added that repeated requests to confer the Lingayat seer the Bharat Ratna have gone in vain. Also, Karnataka C...

Taking a U-turn on his earlier stance on women of menstruating age entering the Sabarimala Temple, Congress President Rahul Gandhi said that he sees validity in arguments in favour of the women's rights and the traditions of the temple. Gandhi was speaking at a press meet during his 2-day UAE tour. “I can see validity in the argument that tradition needs to be protected and I can see validity i...

With the 'Mahagathbandhan' of opposition parties taking shape ahead of Lok Sabha polls Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday said some more parties will be asked to join it. Naidu, who was on one-day visit to the national capital, met Sharad Pawar, Congress President Rahul Gandhi and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, and discussed the issue in the wake of a rally in ...

Much has transpired in the five states of South for the year of 2018 and for states like Kerala and Tamil Nadu it has been the worst of all the years considering the kind of calamity both the states were going through. What is it that made news in the five states of South? HW News English presents a round-up for the year 2018 for the five states of south.

HD Kumaraswamy on Thursday said Tamil Nadu and Karnataka were not "Indo-Pak enemies" and the states can resolve the matter of proposed Mekedatu project on Cauvery River. The centre is expected to call a joint meeting of the heads of both the states in the next 10-15 days to iron out the differences. Chief Minister Kumaraswamy met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday and thanked the centre f...

After several years of delay, Andhra Pradesh will finally have its own High Court in Amaravati. President Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday issued a gazette notification for the functioning of the new High Court in Amaravati with effect from January 1. The new High Court for Andhra Pradesh will be the 25th High Court in the country. The new Andhra HC is expected to function from a temporary structur...

A 24-year-old pregnant woman tested positive for HIV after being given a blood transfusion at a government hospital in Tamil Nadu. The HIV positive blood had been donated by a young man on November 30 and given to the woman on December 3 after technicians at a government blood bank’s laboratory found nothing wrong in the tests. However, by the time he could alert the hospital, the blood had alr...

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu responded to the attempts by TRS Chandrasekhar Rao, to form a 'Federal Front Naidu said that it would only end up benefiting the ruling-BJP at the Centre. In a separate development, he also lashed out at the opposition YSRCP in the state and the AIMIM for extending their support to KCR with their own political mo...

Ahead of the cabinet expansion of the coalition government in the state on December 22, several party legislators are lobbying for their inclusion with party's leader and former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah. As Congress Legislative Party leader Siddaramaiah discussed the cabinet expansion and appointment of chairmen of boards and corporations with about 70 legislators on short-listing some of th...

From 4 transwomen allowed to offer prayers at Sabarimala to Chandrababu Naidu being lashed out for visiting Rajasthan and MP for Congress' new CMs' oath-taking ceremony, what is it that transpired in the 5 states of South? Watch HW News English to watch the latest updates from the 5 states of South

From DMK's Stalin's proposal for Rahul Gandhi's name for the PM candidate to pacing up on the progress on disbursing compensation to the victims of Agri Gold scam, what is it that is happening in the five states of South? Watch South Connect to know it all!

From the Indian Navy putting out a warning message for an upcoming cyclonic storm to appointing a new home minister for Telangana, watch it all here for all the latest updates from the 5 states of South

Now lets take a pause for a while and think..think for sake of humanity.. so many lives were gone and the centre aided with just Rs. 600 crore where as for a statue the centre had spent 3000 cr, the statue. Honestly, I did not have a privilege of being born in the same era as Sardar Patel himself but it causes me to reflect on the fact that a man who played such an important role in India's str...

Twenty hours after Chandramukhi, the transgender candidate contesting the Telangana elections on a Bahujan Left Front (BLF) ticket, went missing, the trans community in Hyderabad has stated that they will be filing a petition to the Hyderabad The community will also be filing a complaint with the Telangana Election Commission. Chandramukhi has reportedly been missing since 8.25 am on Tuesday. T...

Kamal Haasan on Tuesday appealed to Kerala chief minister P Vijayan to "rise above politics" and extend support to the people affected by Cyclone Gaja in Tamil Nadu. Haasan wrote to the chief minister, saying Cyclone Gaja has caused "widespread damage and destruction to life and property". He said his party, Makkal Needhi Maiam has urged the Kerala government and its people to come forward and ...

BJP chief Amit Shah Sunday attacked the state govenment's proposal to give 12 per cent quota to Muslims, saying his party will never allow it as religion-based reservation is unconstitutional. Shah hit out at TRS chief and Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao over the issue during campaign rallies ahead of the December 7 Assembly polls in the state. Shah had further said that Rao promis...

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami sought an assistance of Rs.15,000 crore from the Centre for dealing with the destruction caused by cyclone Gaja in the state during a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi today. The cyclone that created havoc in Tamil Nadu's 12 Cauvery delta districts killed 63 people and left hundreds homeless. Mr Palaniswami requested the Prime Minister to...

The BJP in Karnataka took to the streets on Wednesday in support of the section of sugarcane farmers protesting against the state government this week. Senior BJP leaders including leader of the opposition BS Yeddyurappa. Kumaraswamy was also criticised for appearing to dismiss the concerns of the protesters after he described the protesters as 'goons' and claimed that they were not sugarcane f...

A lawmaker from Telangana's ruling party has quit and is heading for the Congress. With weeks to go for assembly elections in the state, the resignation of K Vishweshwar Reddy -- the richest parliamentarian in Telangana, with declared assets worth over Rs. 500 crore -- is seen as a deep setback for the K Chandrashekar Rao's Telangana Rashtra Samithi. He will join Congress in presence of Sonia G...

Andhra Pradesh Accusing the State government of extending full support to the promoters of the Kakinada Special Economic Zone (KSEZ) by using police power over farmers who were fighting for their land, State secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) P. Madhu on Monday said the party would call for massive transplantation in the land acquired for the purpose in the last week of Decemb...

Kerala:Activist Trupti Desai, who wants to enter Kerala's Sabarimala temple in defiance of a decades-old custom on women of menstrual age, has been blocked by hundreds of protesters at the Kochi airport since she landed at 4:30 am on Friday. The protesters, who staunchly support the restrictions on women despite the Supreme Court ending the ban in a landmark order in September, say they won't a...

Andhra Pradesh With the election campaign heating up, Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu said that the Telangana state government was unable to use Hyderabad properly due to lack of proper administrative skills. “I put Hyderabad on the global map,” he said after inspecting the construction activity in the new AP capital of Amaravati. Telangana Recent reports state that Telangana Chief Minis...

Late Union Minister Ananth Kumar was cremated with State Honours on Tuesday. Senior BJP leaders had gathered to pay their final tributes to Union Minister Ananth Kumar who passed away on Monday. Journalist Santosh Thammaiah who was arrested by the Karnataka Police for derogatory remarks against Prophet Muhammad was granted bail on Tuesday evening. Santosh is the editor of the right-leaning maga...

Karnataka: Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid his last respect to Union Minister late Ananth Kumar at his residence in Bengaluru on Monday. Prime Minister Modi also met the family members of Ananth Kumar and expressed his condolences. Ananth Kumar passed away at the age of 59 while battling lung cancer. Kerala: The Supreme Court decided to hear the review petitions against Sabarimala Judgment...

Tamil superstar Rajinikanth Friday lashed out at the ruling AIADMK in Tamil Nadu for its protests against certain scenes in actor Vijay’s release ‘Sarkar’, questioning the rationale behind protesting against a film certified by the Censor Board. He “strongly condemned” the demands for deletion of scenes. He had also tweeted that “It is against the law to hold protests seeking removal of some sc...

Jana Sena Party chief Pawan Kalyan on Sunday addressed a massive gathering of supporters at Jaggampeta in Andhra Pradesh said that his decision to extend support to the ruling Telugu Desam Party (TDP) in 2014 was a 'mistake'. The JSP chief also said that there would not be a repeat of 2014 as the party would never entertain Naidu’s move to make his son, Nara Lokesh, the next Chief Minister of t...

The Karnataka Police on Wednesday said Ballari-based mining baron and former Bharatiya Janata Party minister Janardhan Reddy is absconding. The Bengaluru Police are looking for Reddy in connection with a bribery case and accused Reddy of demanding Rs 18 crore to bail him out of a case. Reddy was a minister in the BS Yeddyurappa government at the time. The money was allegedly converted to gold a...

With the Sabarimala temple in Kerala set to reopen on November 5, the district collector in Kerala has imposed Section 144 of the CrPC in Sabarimala and nearby areas. The hill shrine in Sabarimala will be open for devotees on November 5 and 6. Prohibitory orders will be in place from Saturday midnight till Tuesday midnight.

A weather warning has been issued to fishermen in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry in view of impending rains. The Tamil Nadu State Disaster Management Authorities (TNSDMA) tweeted on Thursday that strong winds from the East would be impacting the coast of North Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. Tamil Nadu DMA stated that winds would reach up to 35 to 45 kmph and that they have cautioned fisherfolk in the re...

Days after the attack on YS Jaganmohan Reddy inside Vizag airport, Andhra Pradesh Opposition leader and YSRCP chief has written two letters to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh. While in one he sought central intervention on the attack, in the other one he sought assistance to the state government towards Cyclone Titli relief measures by releasing funds. The letters were submitted to Rajnath Si...

Tension following the Supreme Court verdict allowing women of all ages to enter the Sabarimala temple continues to prevail in the state of Kerala. On Saturday, the ashram of Swami Sandeepananda Giri, the director of the School of Bhagavad Gita, was attacked by unidentified men, who set ablaze two cars and a scooter parked in the compound of the ashram located in Kundamankadavu in Thiruvananthap...

The Enforcement Directorate, which conducted a search and seizure operation at Amnesty lndia’s office in Bengaluru on Thursday, has stated that the NGO had violated the Foreign Transaction (Regulation) Act. The ED has frozen Amnesty’s bank accounts since the search operation began on Thursday afternoon. In a statement released to the media, the ED said that Amnesty International India Foundatio...

More than a year after 18 AIADMK MLAs, who had pledged loyalty to ousted AIADMK Deputy General Secretary and independent MLA TTV Dhinakaran, the Madras High Court upheld the Tamil Nadu Speaker’s order disqualifying them. The order will come as a relief for the Palaniswami government The verdict also means that the Election Commission have to notify bye-elections to the 18 constituencies that ha...

The Maharishi Valmiki Award for 2018-19 has been conferred on former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda for his work in uplifting SC/ ST communities, the Karnataka government led by Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy said on Tuesday. The announcement was made by Social Welfare Minister Priyank Kharge who met the veteran politician to invite him to accept the award.

The death of Father Kattuthara at St Mary's church Monday has sent a shiver down the spine of nuns, who had protested against rape accused Bishop Franco Mulakkal. Father Kattuthara, who was a prosecution witness in the rape case had given a statement to the police against Fr Franco, was found dead on Monday morning. While the exact cause of his death is not known, Father Kattuthara ’s brother J...

A New York Times journalist named Suhasini Raj climbed part-way up the Sabarimala hill on Thursday morning. Suhasini who was apparently climbing the hill to report on the story. Initially, the protesters began shouting at her. Suhasini reportedly told protesters, that she was 50 years old, but they remained suspicious and understood at some point along her journey that she was below the age of ...

Franco Mulakkal, the senior Catholic priest accused of repeatedly raping a nun, has been granted bail by the Kerala High Court over three weeks after he was arrested.The priest had approached the high court for bail last month after it was rejected by a lower court. Franco Mulakkal's bail comes with certain conditions. He has been directed to surrender his passport and not enter Kerala except f...

Former ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan received compensation of Rs 50 lakh from the Kerala government on Tuesday, asa directed by the Supreme Court. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan presented the compensation himself to the scientist, who was wrongly accused of spying on India, thus plunging his life and career in uncertainty. The Supreme Court on September 14 had ordered the government pay Rs 50...

The National Ayyappa Devotees Association has filed a review petition against the landmark judgement of the Supreme Court allowing women of all ages into the famous Sabarimala shrine. According to the report, the petitioner further demanded the review petition should be considered as an appeal and allow re-appreciation of facts, evidence and law. Anusha Bhattacharya gives more insights

Telangana caretaker minister and son of TRS chief K Chandrashekar Rao, KT Rama Rao said that the TRS will not support the BJP in the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections. Rama Rao was using the Twitter platform as a means to reach out and said that the BJP and the TRS have a strong difference of opinion. He further added that TRS doesnt polarise based on any criteria and therefore there is no question of j...

Hundreds of Ayyappa devotees, including women, blocked state and national highways in various parts of Kerala on Tuesday, protesting against the recent Supreme Court verdict, permitting women of all ages to worship at the hill shrine at Sabarimala. In the state capital, the activists squatted on the road from 11 am to noon, chanting Ayyappa mantras, but allowed ambulances and vehicles carrying ...

The Ministry of Health on Monday confirmed the reports of oral polio vaccines contaminated with the type-2 polio virus which were given to the children in Telangana and other states like Maharashtra and UP. As per the reports, a Health Ministry official confirmed that some vials of the oral polio vaccines were contaminated. The officials further added that there is no need to panic. The polio s...

AP BJP president Lakshminarayana said that Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu misused the funds released by Centre and also donations given by people for capital construction. he said that the government did not take any initiative to develop capital city. Lakshminarayana alleged that Chief Minister Naidu was doing real estate business with the lands of Amaravati capital city. He had also asked...

A day after Home Minister Rajnath Singh said at a public speech in Kerala that Rohingyas have started entering Kerala, a communication from the Railway Protection Force marked ‘secret’ claimed that a huge number of Rohingyas are coming to Kerala by train. The communication is dated September 26 – a day before Rajnath Singh made his speech – and was sent from the Principal Chief Security Commiss...

Despite stiff opposition Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy’s plan to start English medium in government schools is close to becoming a reality. A report from the Regional Institute of English makes it a strong point for the government of Karnataka to take this pilot run in at least 1,000 schools all across the state.

As the BJP and the Congress are debating over the alleged irregularities in the Rafale deal, the grand old party has come out with a list of 26 scams to target the ruling party. With the assembly elections to five states and the Lok Sabha elections fast approaching, Divya Spandana, the social media who heads of the Congress party, tweeted a list of “All the scams and corruption of Modi and his ...

Of the 50 Maoist squads who killed Araku MLA Kidari Rao, the Vishakapatanam rural police has released the pictures of three Maoist suspects including two women. These three Maoists were also identified by the police. As per reports, the Maoists who got information about the MLA's visit took the advantage and killed him along with ex-MLA Siveri Soma.

An Andhra Pradesh lawmaker and a ruling Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leader were shot dead by Maoists in Visakhapatnam district.The daylight killings today triggered violence in the area and furious locals set police stations on fire in Dumbri Guda and Araku. A lot of files were burnt and furniture was damaged in the vandalism. Rao, who was the legislator from Araku was attacked when he was returni...

The Karnataka wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday accused Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy of sedition and sought action over his remark asking people to "rise in revolt" against the saffron party for its alleged attempts to destabilise the state government. Holding placards and raising slogans against Deve Gowda and kumaraswamy the BJP staged a protest terming the chief minister's ...

The interrogation of Bishop Franco Mulakkal, who has been accused by a nun of raping her, got underway for the third day at the hi-tech interrogation cell in the Crime Branch office today. Superintendent of Police, Kottayam, who is leading the interrogation team, had told the media on Thursday night that the interrogation will be wrapped up on Friday. The bishop has been interrogated for over 1...