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Chikkamagaluru, Sept 20: As many as six officials attached to the Tanigebailu range of the Forest Department were allegedly assaulted by timber smugglers near Saidukhan village in Tarikere taluk on Sunday night. The officers attacked are forest officials. They are Praharsha Kumar, deputy range forest officer, Raghavendra, forest guard, Vasanth Kumar, Sampreeth, Mahesh – all forest guards and

Bengaluru, Sept 15: Income Tax officials on Thursday raided Kalyani Group in Bengaluru and other parts of the country. Simultaneous raids were conducted at eight premises, officials said. Several teams of I-T officials searched the premises belonging to the group in Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Chennai. The companies raided include, Kalyani Motors and Kalyani Developers. The directors of Kalyani

Udupi, Sept 12: Abhinav Karaba K., a 7th semester Mechanical Engineering student of Sri Madhwa Vadiraja Institute of Technology and Management (SMVITM), Bantakal, won the ‘Best Student Award’ in the Karnataka section at the 14th ISTE State Level Student Convention 2017 at GM Institute of Technology, Davangere, on September 8

Bengaluru, Sept 6: Not entirely happy with the performance of the five revenue-generating departments, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has asked them to pull up their socks. Siddaramaiah on Tuesday reviewed the progress of tax/revenue collection by the Commercial Taxes, Excise, Transport, Stamps and Registration and Mines and Geology Departments, after the implementation of GST. On learning that not

New Delhi, Sept 6: Schoolteachers from Karnataka have won as many as 16 national awards for their outstanding contribution to education. Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu gave away the awards at a Teachers’ Day function here on Tuesday. The award carries a silver medal, a certificate and a cheque for Rs 50,000. Rathnamma B M got the national award for her contribution to increasing the enrollment in

Bengaluru, Sept 6: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday recollected fond memories of his school teacher who persuaded him to rejoin school after he had dropped out. He was speaking at a programme organised by the department of public instruction on the occasion of Teacher’s Day. “If Rajappa master had not got me readmitted to school, I would not have been standing before you as the chief

Madikeri, Sept 6: K K Pavana, wife of DySP M K Ganapathi, on Tuesday said that the family has got justice to some extent with the Supreme Court ordering a CBI probe into her husband’s suicide. “The family had demanded a CBI probe. But, we did not get enough support in the beginning. I will stand by my father-in-law M K Kushalappa and brother-in-law M K Machaiah in this fight,” she said. Pavana

Bengaluru, Aug 25: C.M. Ibrahim of the Congress has been elected unopposed in the byelection to the Karnataka Legislative Council. As Opposition parties did not field candidates, Mr. Ibrahim was elected unopposed, said Assembly in-charge secretary, S. Murthy. The byelection was necessitated following the death of Vimala Gowda, BJP MLC. The newly elected member’s tenure will end in June 2018. Mr

Kasaragod, Aug 18: The police here seized nearly 22 kg of ganja valued at Rs. 5 lakh and arrested its 30-year-old carrier, Abubacker Siddique, from Kunjathur, near Manjeswar, on Thursday. Initially, the police team led by Kumbla Circle Inspector V.V. Manoj had seized 250 grams of ganja from Abubacker, who resides near Hosabettu beach. Detailed interrogation of the youth led the police team to 10

Mangaluru: S.M. Geleyara Balaga, Bondel, Mangaluru, celebrated the 71st Independence Day in a unique way in the presence of a Border Security Force (BSF) official. M. Sanjeeva Kulal, a resident of Maryhill in the city, who has been serving as an Inspector with the BSF, was the chief guest on the occasion. He unfurled the tricolour. Prajwal, Ashwin, Sanathkumar, Harish and others were among others