K.R.Nagaraja’s role in promoting Kannada in Delhi remembered

September 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei on Tuesday praised India for promoting peaceful tilisation of Atomic energy. Addressing International conference on 'Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy' in New Delhi, he said India had successfully harnessed nuclear technology in fields of radiation, nuclear medicine and agriculture and was a role model for developing countries.

May 16th, 2009 BANGALORE - Congress veteran B. Janardhana Poojary, a former central minister, Saturday lost to the Bharatiya Janata Party's Nalin Kumar Kateel by 40,420 votes in the Dakshina Kannada Lok Sabha constituency of Karnataka.

April 30th, 2009 BANGALORE - Kannada director Prem has called off shooting two songs of his film 'Raaj' in Canada due to swine flu. 'We had made plans to shoot the songs in Canada.

April 30th, 2009 BANGALORE - Kannada director Prem has called off shooting two songs of his film 'Raaj' in Canada due to swine flu. 'We had made plans to shoot the songs in Canada.

April 11th, 2009 BANGALORE - Another Padukone, Sanchitha, is ready to hit the Kannada film industry. But before you jump to conclusion - no, she is not related to her more famous namesake Deepika.

April 9th, 2009 CHENNAI - With its 24-hour Tamil kids channel Chutti TV becoming popular, Sun TV Network has decided to launch similar channels in Telugu and Kannada languages. In a statutory filing with the stock exchanges Thursday, the broadcaster said the new channels - Kushi TV (Telugu) and Chintu TV (Kannada) - would go on air April 12.

March 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A Mangalore court on Monday banned Sri Ram Sene Chief Pramod Muthalik from entering 'Dakshin Kannada District' for one year. Mangalore is the headquarter of Dakshin Kannada District.

March 10th, 2009 BANGALORE - Tamil star Priyamani grew up in Bangalore but has only now got around to signing her first Kannada film 'Raam'. A remake of Telugu superhit 'Ready', she will be starring opposite Puneet Raj Kumar.

March 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India should take a 'more active role' in promoting religious harmony abroad, Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said here Friday. 'India must take a more active role in promoting peace and religious harmony in the new world, which are heavily interdependent,' he said at the inaugural session of the India Today Conclave.

March 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - After playing a south Indian belle in comedy flick 'Golmaal Returns', Bollywood actress Celina Jaitley is signing a Kannada film titled 'Shreemati'. The beauty queen-turned-actress will star opposite Kannada superstar Upendra, who has already written the story and screenplay of the movie, said a source.

March 3rd, 2009 BANGALORE - Tamil superstar Rajnikant has endorsed his colleague Kamal Haasan's view that art and politics should not be mixed and urged politicians to not create divisions between artists of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. 'Please don't divide us and don't bring politics into cinema,' Rajnikant said Monday at a felicitation function organised by the Karnataka Film Chamber of Commerce.

March 1st, 2009 BANGALORE - Southern superstars like Rajnikanth, Kamal Haasan and Vishnuvardhan are set to come together as the Kannada film industry celebrates its 75-year existence with a three-day extravaganza that kicks off here Sunday. The inaugural event at the Bangalore Palace grounds would also be attended by Karnataka Chief Minister B.S.

January 20th, 2009 BANGALORE - Tamil star Prabhu, the son of legendary actor Shivaji Ganesan, is busy shooting in Mysore for his first Kannada film, 'Boss'. Prabhu, who plays an investigative officer in the film, will be shooting for 10 days in Mysore for the film.

January 14th, 2009 BANGALORE - Suman Ranganath is happy with her second innings in Kannada films, which she started with the hit song 'Chitraana Chitraana' in 'Budhdhivantha' last year. 'The year 2008 has been a lucky year for me as far as my film career is concerned.

December 22nd, 2008 NEW DELHI - Kannada, Telugu, Sanskrit and Tamil are the four classical languages of India, Tourism and Culture Minister Ambika Soni informed the Rajya Sabha Tuesday. Soni said the government has not taken any view in classifying Malayalam as another classical language as they have not received any representation from the Kerala government.