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Bengaluru, Sept 21: Excise revenue in the state fell by Rs 500 crore due to the Supreme Court’s ban on sale of liquor along highways, Excise Minister R B Timmapur said on Wednesday. As many as 789 liquor stores along national and state highways had to be relocated following the apex court’s ban on sale of liquor within 500 metres of highways. This included about 200 stores in Bengaluru urban

Bengaluru, Sept 20: The viscera report of Karnataka cadre IAS officer Anurag Tiwari, who was found dead on the road in Lucknow in May this year, has clearly ruled out the ruled out poisoning as the cause of death. With this the death of Tiwari remained a mystery. The viscera report was opened before a panel of four doctors, who had conducted the postmortem of Anurag's body. Sources said that

Mangaluru Sept 20: Karnataka Home Minister R Ramalinga Reddy on Wednesday reportedly took senior police officers to task for failing to take immediate action against Hindu Jagarana Vedike (HJV) leader Jagadish Karanth whos provocative speech sparked tension in the region last week. Delivering keynote address at a protest meet organised by HJV at Puttur on September 15, Karnanth not only tried to

Mangaluru, Sept 20: Communist Party of India-Marxist has decided to form a 1,500-km-long human chain on January 30, 2018 (Martyrs’ Day) to promote harmony in Karnataka and to protest against Congress government’s alleged failure to control communal forces in the state in general and coastal belt in particular. Addressing presspersons in Ballari on Tuesday, G.V. Sriram Reddy, general secretary of

Hyderabad, Sept 20: The police in Hyderabad have arrested 20 people including five Omani and three Qatar nationals, three Khazis, five brokers and four hotel owners in connection with child marriages to Arab nationals. After an incident of wedlock of a fake Omani Shiek with a minor girl here on 17 August and her subsequent abduction to Oman, the police succeeded in digging deep into the network of

Mangaluru, Sept 20: Calling Indians “lazy and gossip lovers”, eminent scientist C.N.R. Rao said that the country can prosper only if it makes strides in the fields of science and technology on the lines of the U.S., Japan, Korea and China. He was speaking after distributing scholarships to wards of self-help group members under the Sujnana Nidhi scheme of Sri Kshetra Dharmasthala Rural Development

Bengaluru, Sept 20: BJP state president B S Yeddyurappa on Tuesday charged that there were 36 cases registered with the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) against Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and his Cabinet colleagues and the state government was trying to hush them up. Speaking at a party event in Bengaluru, Yeddyurappa charged the government with being the most corrupt and targeting honest officers.

Bengaluru, Sept 20: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday accused the BJP-led Centre of tapping phones of Congress leaders in the state. “It is not the state government, but the Centre that is tapping phones,” Siddaramaiah told reporters, reacting to BJP leader R Ashoka’s allegation that the Congress government had tapped the phones of BJP and JD(S) leaders. “Tapping phones of opposition party

New Delhi, Sept 20: Indian telecom regulator TRAI on Tuesday came out with a regulation cutting call termination charges from mobile to mobile by over half to 6 paise per minute effective from October 1. The measure drew stiff opposition from a majority of telecom operators who plan to seek legal redressal. The sector regulator also plans to phase out Interconnection Usage Charges (IUC) by January

New Delhi, Sept 20: The Supreme Court on Tuesday said there should be tolerance for different views and hypersensitivity in religious issues must be stopped. “True religion teaches detachment and all its true followers are detached. They don't bother about worldly affairs. Only those who are interested in politics of religion have all kinds of problems,” a bench of Justices S A Bobde and L