Karnataka

Bengaluru, Sept 18: Srikant Pangarkar, a former Shiv Sena councillor of Jalna Municipal Corporation in Maharashtra, has become the 14th accused arrested by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the murder of journactivist Gauri Lankesh. Investigators also suspect that Srikant was in Bengaluru on September 5, 2017, the day Gauri Lankesh was assassinated. He has been remanded into SIT custody

Raichur, Sept 18: All India Congress Committee general secretary and MLC N S Boseraju has claimed that at least six MLAs from the BJP are in touch with the Congress, and none from his party will join the BJP. Talking to reporters here, Mr. Boseraju said that the BJP was trying to destabilise the coalition government. But, its efforts will bring no results as MLAs from the Congress and the Janata

Mangaluru, Sept 18: The Bajpe Police have arrested five persons on the charge of stealing electricity cable kept for railway electrification at Kenjar village and recovered stolen cable worth Rs. 2 lakh along with a van allegedly used to commit the crime. The police gave the names of the accused as Arif alias Mohammed Arif alias Munna (28), a resident of Kalavaru, Ramlan Ideen alias Kamal (20), a

Mangaluru, Sept 17: U T Khader, Minister for Housing, Urban Development and Dakshina Kannada district in-charge, has said that new state-of-the-art markets would come up in Mangaluru in near future. Speaking to reporters, he said that the Karnataka government has proposed to have a market at Kadri at a cost of Rs. 12 crore and another at Kankanady at an estimated cost of Rs. 41 crore. A fish

Dubai, Sept 17: The Bearys Chamber of Commerce & Industry (BCCI), Mangaluru is all set to form its UAE chapter on 19th October, 2018, at Pearl Creek Hotel, Deira, Dubai. BCCI President Hajee S M Rasheed will preside over the function. U T Khader, Minister for Housing and Urban Development, B M Farookh, MLC, Thumbay Moidin, NRI entrepreneur, Abdul Latheef, Mohammed Mansoor and other dignitaries

Paris, Sept 17: Robots will handle 52 percent of current work tasks by 2025, almost twice as many as now, a World Economic Forum (WEF) study said Monday. The sharp increase could also see a net gain in "new roles" for humans, who will have to revamp skills to keep pace with the "seismic shift" in how we work with machines and computer programmes, the forum estimated. "By 2025 more than half of all

At a time of widespread complaints regarding misuse of social media by people, here is a heartening story of how social media served a useful purpose in advancing scientific knowledge about a unique species of spiders. Thanks to a sharp observation made by a Facebook user, one of the largest social media platforms in the country, an endemic South-Asian species of jumping spider, Hyllus semicupreus

Mysuru, Sept 17: The Karnataka government has released Rs 600 crore the development of Government Colleges in the state, District In-charge and Higher Education Minister G T Devegowda said. Speaking to newsmen here on Monday he said that a tender will be called for taking up the development works on time bound manner. “Our aim is to develop all the Government Colleges in the state. The central

Bengaluru, Sept 17: Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) President Dinesh Gundu Rao said that the reduction in levy on Petrol and Diesel by Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy to bring relief to consumers is the State's gift to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his birthday today. "We have reduced the State taxes on fuel prices and petrol and diesel prices are lower by two rupees from today. It is

Kalaburagi, Sept 17: The Karnataka Government on Monday announced a reduction in petrol and diesel price by Rs. 2 each. Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy said, "Today, we are taking a decision that we are going to reduce Rs. 2 on both petrol and diesel". Earlier on September 10, Karnataka's neighbouring state, Andhra Pradesh also slashed the prices of petrol and diesel by Rs. 2. Following