In The News

Bengaluru, Feb 18: Congress leader and Shantinagar MLA NA Haris' son Mohammed Nalpad has been booked along with his 10 supporters for allegedly assaulting a man at a cafe in Bengaluru's UB City and later at a hospital. The victim has been identified as Vidvath, son of businessman Lokanath. The police have lodged an FIR based on the complaint filed by Vidvath’s friend Praveen Venkatachalaiah

Mangaluru, Feb 18: Disha Career Fest-2018, a placement drive exclusively for students from non-engineering stream organised by the Dakshina Kannada district administration, in association with Centre for Entrepreneurship Opportunities and Learning (CEOL) and Alva's Education Foundation, Moodbidri, on Mangalore University campus, received a good response on Saturday. As many as 331 candidates got

Bengaluru, Feb 18: The Janata Dal (Secular) which has cobbled up a pre-poll alliance with Bahujan Samaj Party, used its rally on Saturday to flaunt its strength as lakhs of fans of party supremos HD Deve Gowda and H D Kumaraswamy, and former UP CM Mayawati converged in Bengaluru and sent a warning to the ruling government of Karnataka. The JD(S) leadership juxtaposed its 'marriage of convenience'

Mandya MLA M H Ambareesh, who was dropped from the Chief Minister Siddaramaiah-led cabinet of ministers a couple of years ago over inefficiency, now has expressed his desire to become the chief minister of Karnataka. Speaking to media persons in Bengaluru on Saturday, the actor-turned-politician revealed that he had been nursing a chief ministerial dream for the last 15 years. "I have been a chief

The Janata Dal (Secular) took everyone by surprise on Saturday, Feb 17, by announcing candidates for 126 Assembly seats even before the election schedule for Karnataka is announced by the poll panel. The list was made public on the same day that the JD(S) supremo H D Deve Gowda addressed an election rally with BSP chief Mayawati in Bengaluru, indicating that a seat sharing formula has been worked

Madikeri: In a shocking incident, a tourist from Hyderabad died at a hospital on Friday, a day after a group of rafting guides brutally thrashed him at Dubare near here over a trivial issue. The deceased is Razi Ahmmed. He had suffered injuries on the head. After receiving first aid at Kushalnagar Community Health Centre he was taken to Mysuru for further treatment where he breathed his last. It

Mangaluru, Feb 17: Three college students suffered injuries when a group of miscreants thrashed them on Saturday at Talapady Junction on the outskirts of the city over a trivial issue. The injured students have been identified as Imran, Fairoz and Sadiq, who are studying in a city-based college. Two among them have been admitted to a private hospital in Thokkottu for treatment. The attack took

Sharjah, Feb 17: More than 2000 people, including families visited Thumbay Medical & Dental Specialty Center, Sharjah to attend the free mega health camp organized as part of Thumbay Group’s CSR program, on Friday, 16th February 2018. Organized with the aim of promoting health awareness among the public and offering them easy access to quality healthcare, the camp offered specialist consultations

Kasaragod, Feb 17: A month after the murder of 60-year-old Zubaida at her house at Ayampara, near Periye here, the police have arrested the prime accused in the case. Three other accused are already in judicial custody. Azeez, 30, a native of Ajjavara near Sullia town in Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka, was rounded up in the forests by the investigating team headed by Bekal Circle Inspector

Buoyed by a robust growth in services sector, the Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) of Karnataka is set to record higher growth rate of 8.5% even as the country's GDP growth is projected to decline to 6.5% in 2017-18 as compared to 7.1% in 2016-17 at constant prices (2011-12). According to the state Economic Survey for 2017-18 tabled in the legislature ahead of the Budget for 2018-19 by Chief