Karnataka

Mangaluru, Aug 4: The Bharatiya Janata Party, which is the opposition party in Mangaluru City Corporation has accused a civic body committee of brazenly flouting rules and approving an office to J R Lobo, Congress leader and former MLA of Mangaluru City South, in the corporation’s commercial complex at Mallikatta. Premananda Shetty, Leader of the Opposition in the MCC, said the Standing Committee

Chikkaballapur, Aug 4: Two brave boys rescued a 5-year-old girl from drowning by exhibiting great presence of mind at Appegowdanahalli village in Shidlaghatta taluk of Chikkaballapur district. The incident took place on Thursday while Poorvika (5) was playing. She accidently slipped into a 9-foot sump near her house, where her neighbour Ganeshappa, is constructing a house. 6-year-old Satvik and 5

Mangaluru, Aug 4: Cases were slapped against as many as 193 conductors by the Mangaluru City Traffic Police in a single day for not issuing tickets to passengers. The cops also collected a fine of Rs 19,300 through Friday’s operation. The unexpected action was a fallout of the weekly phone-in programme of City Police Commissioner T.R. Suresh, wherein many callers used to complain about non-issue

Bengaluru, Aug 4: To provide relief to a choked Bengaluru busting at seams, Karnataka Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy on Friday told investors to set up their manufacturing units or services centres in tier-2 cities across the southern state. "I appeal to investors to locate their industries or services centres beyond Bengaluru in tier-2 cities like Mysuru, Hassan, Mangaluru, Hubballi, Belagavi

Bengaluru, Aug 3: Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy said the state government has not taken any decision on throwing open the national highway cutting through the Bandipur Tiger Reserve in Karnataka fornight traffic. The Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has recently proposed to allow night traffic and claimed that the state government had agreed to give its consent.

Mandya, Aug 3: Within two weeks after he was posted as Tahsildar KR Pet, Mahesh Chandra, one of the senior revenue officials in the State, has been allegedly abducted by unknown miscreants. According to reports Mahesh Chandra has been missing since Thursday night. According to the police and revenue officials, they tried to reach the Tahsildar on his phone but found it to be switched off. The

Karwar, Aug 3: A non-resident Indian hailing from coastal Karnataka, has allegedly been abducted by extremists in Afghanistan. Patson Rodriguez (39), who hails from of Christian Colony at Kadawad in Karwar taluk of Uttara Kannada district, has been working as a cook with a France based company in Kabul for the last 10 years. Rodriguez's family members have confirmed that he was abducted on

Bengaluru, Aug 3: A four-year old boy lost his life after hot sambar fell on him, in Jayanagar 4th Block in Bengaluru. The deceased, Vivek S, was the son of Suresh and Asha. The couple from Shivamogga had come to the city a few years ago. Asha is a cook. The incident took place when Asha and her son were having dinner and Suresh was outside. Meanwhile, there was a knock at their door and Asha went

Bengaluru, Aug 3: Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy led coalition government of Karnataka has decided to make yoga a mandatory extra-curricular activity in all universities and colleges in the state starting this academic year. Addressing a press conference after a meeting with Vice Chancellors and officials of all universities in the State, here yesterday, Higher Education Minister G T Deve Gowda

Mumbai, Aug 3: The Shiv Sena on Thursday said that the Maharashtra government should approach the Supreme Court and urge it to send a contempt notice to the Karnataka government for its Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy’s remark about making Belagavi the second capital of the state. The Sena said Maharashtra and Karnataka were embroiled in a border dispute, centring around Belagavi in the Supreme