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Bengaluru, Oct 11: The BJP on Tuesday made fresh charges against Chief Minister Siddaramaiah stating that he mislead courts to get 6 acre and 26 guntas of land in Bhoopsandra (RMV II Stage) in Bengaluru denotified. Addressing a press conference here, BJP MLC and former minister B J Puttaswamy charged that a certain Keerthi Raj Shetty, a close associate of Siddaramaiah since his days in the JD(S)

Bengaluru, Oct 11: The state government has decided to provide sites for Kannadigas who were recently evicted from Baina beach by the Goa authorities. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah who chaired a meeting at his official residence Krishna in Bengaluru on Tuesday, said the government was committed to rehabilitating the families and that sites would be provided in the first phase. Siddaramaiah asked the

Mangaluru, Oct 10: The State government has appointed Sasikanth Senthil S, a 2009 batch Indian Administrative Service officer as the new Deputy Commissioner of Dakshina Kannada district. He is expected to take charge within a couple of days from the outgoing DC Dr K G Jagadeesha who received transfer order on Tuesday. In fact the two officers have swapped the posts. Jagadeesh has been posted as

Bengaluru, Oct 10: A woman riding pillion on a two-wheeler was killed today when a truck rammed the vehicle as the rider was trying to avoid a pothole near Devanahalli, police said. With this, four persons have died in accidents this month because of the battered condition of some of the citys roads. Police said G Veena (21), a resident of Kundana in Devanahalli, was heading home riding pillion

New Delhi, Oct 10: The President is likely to approve in a "day or two" the Karnataka land reform bill which provides for giving farm labourers rights over houses build on the land not belonging to them prior January 1, 1979, the state's Assembly Speaker K B Koliwad said today. The Karnataka Land Reforms (Amendment) Bill, 2016 was passed unanimously in both the Houses of the state legislature. It

Wayanad, Oct 10: Gold ornaments weighing about 34.350 kgs and worth more than ₹11 crore were seized from six passengers of a private bus in the district early today. Acting on a tip off, a team of excise department sleuths intercepted the bus, proceeding to Perinthalmanna in Malappuram district at 4.45a.m. at Tholpetti check post, an excise official said. During the search, the gold ornaments

After Chief Minister Siddaramaiah expressed his desire to contest the 2018 assembly elections from Chamundeshwari constituency in Mysuru, his friends-turned-foes in both the JD(S) and the BJP are learnt to have put their heads together to come up with a ‘game plan’ to “politically finish” their common arch-rival. In a politically significant development, former Minister V Srinivas Prasad from the

Kannur, Oct 10: The Kerala police have recovered a huge cache of weapons from the office of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Kannur district following a raid. The police have seized steel bombs, swords, iron rods and other sharp weapons from the BJP office in Panoor area of Kannur. The raids were conducted after a tip-off from the local residents living in the area around the office. The development

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh leader Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat has urged the Karnataka government to issue a strict diktat to the religious centres of Christians and Muslims to compulsorily celebrate all the national festivals of India. Speaking to media persons in Belagavi on Monday, Bhat said that it was the responsibility of the State government to ensure that national festivals are celebrated in

Mangalurean beauty Joyce John Rego has been crowned ‘Mrs India Dubai 2017’ at the ‘Mrs India Earth' grand finale in Delhi. She was among the top 25 contestants and the only finalist chosen among the 1000 applicants from the UAE. The Finale was held on October 6 at New Delhi. Joyce, a semi government employee and mother of 2 kids, is residing in UAE past 12 years. She is daughter of John Gudinho