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Bengaluru, Jun 4: The Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre has issued a flood alert and heavy rain warning for Bengaluru and other parts of the state. This is the first thundershower and flood warning of the season, and it has been announced just before the monsoon hits Bengaluru in its full force. Heavy rains have triggered deluge in Mangaluru last Tuesday causing deaths and

Mangaluru, Jun 4: The intervention by the Coast Guard helped the timely medical evacuation of a Chinese sailor who fell ill on board ship ‘MV Tao Brave’ which was sailing towards Dahej port in Gujarat from Australia. The Coast Guard put its ship ‘Kasturba Gandhi,’ that was 26 nautical miles away from the merchant vessel, on standby, to respond to any exigency. The local agents of the vessel, on

Bengaluru, Jun 4: Accusing the Congress and the Janata Dal(S) of going against people’s mandate, Pralhad Joshi, Member of Parliament from Dharwad and former Karnataka BJP president, predicted that the state may face another Assembly polls along with 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Speaking at a programme in Dharward to mark the fourth anniversary of NDA rule in the country and also a thanksgiving

Bantwal/Jubail, Jun 4: An expatriate worker from coastal Karnataka, and two other non-resident Indians who were working in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia lost their lives in a road accident yesterday. One of the victims has been identified as Anwar (26), who hailed from Goodinabali near Panemangaluru in Bantwal taluk of Dakshia Kannada district. The tragedy took place when Anwar and three other

Udupi, Jun 3: In connection with the death of cattle trader Hussainabba earlier this week, the Udupi police have arrested three policemen including D N Kumar, the sub-inspector of Hiriyadka police. The arrest comes after it was found that Hussainabba, 62, a resident of Jokatte in Mangaluru, who was reportedly found dead under mysterious circumstances near Perdoor on May 30, had in fact died inside

Mangaluru, Jun 3: Locals reportedly thrashed drunk doctor, whose reckless car driving resulted in a mishap and injured seven people including two medicos near Yenepoya hospital at Deralakatte on the outskirts of the city last night. The incident took place around 11.45pm on Saturday. An auto-rickshaw driven by Divakar, 35, a resident of Asaigoli with four passengers in it, which included George

Udupi, Jun 3 Congress leader and MLC Ivan D’Souza has alleged that both the BJP and JD(S) were giving inducements to teachers, who are the voters of the South West Teachers’ Constituency for the Legislative Council elections. Addressing presspersons here, Mr. D’Souza said that he would lodge a complaint with the Election Commission on this issue as it was against the Model Code of Conduct. “While

Bengaluru, Jun 3: Karnataka North Congress working President SR Patil on Sunday tendered his resignation on moral grounds owing to party’s performance in recent assembly elections in the state. Patil has sent his resignation letter to Congress President Rahul Gandhi. “I have sent my resignation to Shri Rahul Gandhiji through an email some days back after taking up moral responsibility for the

Bengaluru, Jun 3: Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy has asked all government staff members in the state to cut down on unnecessary expenditure. The move by the Janata Dal Secular (JDS) leader is aimed at strengthening the financial condition of Karnataka. The office of the Chief Minister released an official statement in this regard, asking the officials to reconsider the requests raised for

Bengaluru, Jun 3: A pilot project employing Israeli model of farm practices will be launched on the 900-acre Vishweshwaraiah Canal (VC) Farm/College of Agriculture, in Mandya soon, according to Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy. Kumaraswamy, who had led a JD(S) delegation to Israel to study innovative agriculture methods last year, told media persons yesterday that the technology would