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Bengaluru, Feb 28: The Karnataka state government has promoted 34 senior KAS officers to the IAS rank under promotional quota. The Union Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances, and Pensions has cleared the list of KAS officers recommended by the State for promotions. However, promotion of KAS officers will come into effect only after the disposal of cases pending before the Supreme Court and the

Bengaluru, Feb 28: Police have managed to arrest three persons for allegedly sexually harassing a 29-year-old female journalist and beating up her two male friends near Poorvankara park in the city. According to the police, the woman and her friends were confronted by three men on a motorbike who began passing lewd comments. When she objected, the trio got down from their bike and began to

Mangaluru, Feb 28: A local court has sentenced four alleged associates of underworld operative Vikki Shetty to life on finding them guilty of the murder of garage owner Keshava Shetty (35) in Soorinje on January 6, 2015. The convicted are Satish Soorinje (33), Lithesh (28), Shobharaj (26), and Yuvaraj (26). Nerale Veerabhadraiah Bhavani, Judge of the Fourth Additional District and Sessions

Bengaluru Feb 28: The state government will launch Universal Health Coverage scheme which intends to bring all the health schemes under a single umbrella on March 1. "The scheme will be launched on Thursday by chief minister," said Ajay seth, additional chief secretary, department of health and family welfare. He said that the scheme will start in 10 hospitals across the state, out of which three

Shivamogga Feb 28: Rock climber Jyothi Raj aka Kothiraj who went down Jog Falls in search of a missing youth, who had allegedly jumped into the water falls, has himself reportedly gone missing from the falls near Kargal, Sagar taluk on Tuesday. Three days ago, a youth, identified as Manjunath (23) from Bengaluru, arrived at Jog Falls on a high-end motorcycle, parked it near the Falls with a

Udupi, Feb 27: Two labourers, engaged in construction work about 14 feet below the ground at an underground drainage (UGD) site, died when loose soil from above fell on them at Kaup in Udupi district on Tuesday. The deceased have been identified as Dasappa, 43, from Mesarahalli near Davangere; and Umesh, 45, from Nandipur near Chitradurga. Both of them were digging for the new underground drainage

Davangere, Feb 27: In a blistering attack on the Siddaramaiah government in Karnataka, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today dubbed it as "seeda Rupaiya sarkar" (money first) which should not be allowed to continue 'even for a minute'. "It is now certain that this Karnataka government will go," he told a BJP farmers' rally here, asserting that there was public anger against the Siddaramaiah regime

Bengaluru, Feb 27: The Karnataka Chief Minister on Tuesday launched a new mobile canteen named Saviruchi and also distributed retrofitted two-wheelers to the needy in Bengaluru. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah started an initiative to promote the female employment in the state by introducing a women-centric mobile canteen where the entire team of employees and managers shall comprise of women. He

Mangaluru, Feb 27: Dr C P Habeeb Rahman, Chairman and Medical Director of Unity Hospital, has received a coveted a award from the European Medical Association at the Arab Health Congress held at Dubai recently, in recognition of Best Health Practices at Unity Hospital for the past 4 decades. In the process, Dr Habeeb Rahman made a comparison between the role of the European Medical Association

Bengaluru, Feb 27: Serial rapist and murderer M Jayashankar committed suicide at the Parappana Agrahara Central Prisons in the early hours of Tuesday. Police suspect that he slit his throat using a blade that he got during a haircut/shave within the jail premises. The convict who was in isolation was kept in a separate cell and did not mingle with any other convict, the police said. He slit his