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Bengaluru, Feb 16: Faced with ballooning expenditure on the one hand and sluggish economic growth on the other, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday presented the last budget of his current tenures on Friday. Personally this is Siddaramaiah’s 13th budget. Here are the key highlights from the Nava Karnataka Budget 2018: With a Budgetary Allocation of Rs 5,849 crore for the Department of

Kasaragod, Feb 16: A fire that broke out at a bar outlet attached to a three-star hotel here destroyed the liquor stock and other properties on Thursday. It took Fire and Rescue Services personnel and the police about two hours to put out the fire at Hotel Highway Castle at Nullipadi, about a kilometre from the municipal bus station. The fire, suspected to have caused by short-circuit, was noticed

Mangaluru, Feb 16: The players’ auction of the much awaited Mangalore Premier League cricket tournament-2018 jointly organized by the Brand Vision Events, Mangalore Occasional and Sea Bird Cricket Academy with the approval and guidance of Karnataka State Cricket Association will be held on Saturday, February 17, at II Floor of Forum Fiza Mall. This was confirmed on Friday at a joint press meet by

Mandya Feb 16: Cauvery Hitarakshana Samiti president G Madegowda expressed satisfaction over the Supreme Court verdict on Cauvery river water sharing dispute. Speaking to reporters at Mandya, he added that meeting will be called soon to discuss next steps. Gowda said that expansion of agricultural land acreage, usage of drinking water and other pertinent matters will be discussed during the

New Delhi, Feb 16: India's top court today directed the Karnataka government to release 177.25 tmcft of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu from its inter-state Biligundlu dam. The judgement clarified that Karnataka will now have an enhanced share of 14.75 tmcft water per year while Tamil Nadu will get 404.25 tmcft, which will be 14.75 tmcft less than what was allotted by the tribunal in 2007. Earlier, in

Bengaluru, Feb 16: BJP state president B S Yeddyurappa said that the state budget to be presented by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday will have no consequence as the election code of conduct will come into force before it is implemented. Speaking to reporters in Bengaluru on Thursday, Yeddyurappa said, Siddaramaiah, who also holds the finance portfolio, should not hoodwink the people by

Bengaluru, Feb 16: The JD(S) is all set to forge an alliance with the Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) ahead of the Assembly polls. Pawar, who was in the Bengaluru on Thursday for the working committee meeting of the NCP, met JD(S) state president H D Kumaraswamy and had a telephonic conversation with JD(S) supremo and former prime minister HD Deve Gowda. "We did not go into the

Bengaluru, Feb 15: An outfit formed by senior BJP leader K S Eshwarappa has warned that any move to sideline him in the coming assembly elections would spoil the party's prospects. The 'Rayanna Brigade', launched a year ago by Eshwarappa at the height of his feud with state party chief B S Yeddyurappa, said it was ready for any conflict if its leader faced any challenge politically. In a Facebook

Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 15: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan today termed as factually wrong the statement of Union Minister Kiren Rijiju that the state had sought a ban on the Popular Front of India, a Muslim organisation. Vijayan was reacting to Rijiju's reported statement that Kerala had pressed for a ban on the PFI at the annual DGP conference held at Madhya Pradesh last month and Centre

Bengaluru, Feb 15: At least three labourers were killed and seven injured when a four-storey building under construction collapsed on Jail Road at Kasavanahalli in Bengaluru on Thursday afternoon. Eight fire tenders reached the spot and rescue personnel and local residents managed to rescue as many as seven labourers trapped under the debris. The injured were taken to hospitals nearby. A search