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Bengaluru, Jul 14: The Congress-JD(S) coalition government, in its first major reshuffle of IAS officers, transferred 21 people including L K Atheeq and Subodh Yadav. Following are new postings of IAS officers according to an official notification: The government appointed 1989 batch officer Jawaid Akhtar as the new principal secretary to the department of Health and Family Welfare. Akhtar will

Bengaluru, Jul 14: To pre-empt any such move, former chief minister Siddaramaiah has asked Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy not to remove Syndicate members at public universities, who were nominated by the previous Congress government. “Our previous government has nominated academic experts from all categories as Syndicate/Executive Council members. You are requested not to change them and let them

Mangaluru, Jul 13: Amidst continuous rains, a portion of the tiled roof of the old building of Ullal Railway Station collapsed on Friday following reported weak wooden scaffolding supporting the tiled roof. The building had been abandoned and ticket issuing counter was shifted to a new building constructed next to the old building, said a senior engineer from the Palakkad Division of Southern

Mangaluru, Jul 13: Public Works Minister H.D. Revanna and Housing and Urban Development Minister U.T. Khader will inaugurate the Shiradi Ghat road on Sunday at 1.30 a.m. at Gundya in Dakshina Kannada. For past six months motorists were using alternative routes as the concretizing work was going on. The ancillary works are expected to be over within a couple of days for Package 2 of reconstruction

Bengaluru, Jul 13: Karnataka deputy chief minister G Parameshwara said today the government would not hesitate to invoke the 'Goonda Act' against drug peddlers to crack down "mercilessly" on the drug menace and asserted that he would not allow the state to become "another Punjab." "We have not come to the Punjab-like situation. We should not come to such a situation. If we don't take precautions

Bengaluru, Jul 13: The Karnataka assembly on Friday passed a bill amending an act, disallowing a private university from conducting courses pertaining to agriculture science. The bill was introduced in the wake of protests by students of Universities of Agricultural Science across the state against the entry of private players in farm education. The bill, amending the Rai Technology University

Kochi, Jul 13: A section of nuns, priests and laity of the Roman Catholic Church has written to the Vatican over the alleged rape of a nun in Kerala by a bishop, urging it "to do what is right" to provide justice to the women in the church. The letters were written to Giambattista Diquttro, Apostolic Nuncio to India and the Catholic Bishops Conference of India Cardinal Oswald Gracias. The church

Kalaburagi, Jul 13: A man who was declared dead by the doctors, all of a sudden opened his eyes and started breathing during his funeral. This miracle occurred at station Ganagapur in Afzalpur taluk of Kalaburagi. Ishwar Pawade (34) is the man who came back to life after been declared dead. Pawade, who works in Mumbai, had come to Ganagapur seven days ago. As he fell sick amid the visit, he was

Bengaluru, Jul 13: Justifying his budgetary proposal to hike taxes on fuel, Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy has claimed that such a move was necessary to mobilise resources for the farm loan-waiver scheme. Congress Legislature Party chairman and his predecessor, Siddaramaih, had written to Mr. Kumaraswamy requesting reconsideration of the proposal to increase tax on fuel. Newly appointed State

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