Karnataka

Udupi, Jul 7: The Principal District and Sessions Court has posted the hearing in the Bhaskar Shetty murder case to July 16. Special Public Prosecutor, M. Shantharam Shetty, did the chief examination of S.V. Girish, who was the inspector of Manipal police station, when the murder took place. The court also directed that the main accused in the case, Rajeshwari Shetty, her son, Navneet Shetty, and

Kasaragod, Jul 7: Veteran academician and thinker S V Seshagiri Rao has been appointed new Chancellor of the Central University of Kerala (CUK) situated in Kasaragod. Prof. Seshagiri, who is known for his academic and research works for over four decades, has been appointed by President Ram Nath Kovind in his capacity as Visitor of the university, said a CUK statement here on Friday. Born in

Mangaluru, Jul 7: Sanketh P Bharathish, fifth year student of city-based Srinivas Institute of Technology, is the first scholarship recipient of International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism (INTBAU) scholarship. This year INTBAU launched the biennial travel scholarship to anchorage the next generation of researchers and practitioners of traditional architecture and to

Mangaluru, Jul 6: A WhatsApp rumour about child-lifters that triggered widespread mob frenzy across the country, this time instigated a group of people in coastal Karnataka to attack a 35-year-old man who was travelling in an auto-rickshaw with his own child. The incident took place at Ujire in Belthangady taluk of Dakshina Kannada district on Thursday, July 5. The victim has been identified as

Putrajaya, Jul 6: Rubbishing the reports of Indian media as baseless, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Friday clarified that physician-turned-preacher Dr Zakir Naik, who claims that he is being targeted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA government, will not be extradited to India. Zakir Naik, an NRI, never visited India after Indian media began a hate campaign against him in 2016

New Delhi, Jul 6: Following Karnataka's USD 5 billion write off, the nation's farm loan waivers will double to USD 40 billion by the summer 2019 elections, says a Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofAML) report. Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy in the maiden budget of the Congress-JDS coalition government yesterday announced a mega Rs 34,000 crore farm loan waiver scheme. He capped the

Mangaluru, Jul 6: A state-level volleyball coach and a tree-cutting contractor have been booked by the Forest Department for the alleged illegal felling of a rain tree and the pruning of over a dozen other trees in and around the volleyball training ground adjoining the Mangala Stadium in the city. The department took action after green activist Shashidhar Shetty brought the issue to its notice

Bengaluru, Jul 6: Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy on Thursday gave himself and his team of officers a pat on the back for what he termed was “a record budget” while hitting out at the BJP “for being thankless.” Addressing a press conference, Kumaraswamy strongly defended the first budget of the Congress-JD(S) coalition amid criticism from the BJP. “I have shown a revenue surplus of Rs 106 crore. It

Bengaluru, Jul 6: Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly B S Yeddyurappa on Thursday accused Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy, who also holds the Finance portfolio, of cheating the farming community. “The finance minister is silent on the issue of mobilising the resources to compensate the loan waiver of Rs 34,000 crore. Farmers should not get carried away by the debt waiver. The chief

Bengaluru, Jul 6: Coalition partner Congress, especially former chief minister Siddaramaiah, has had the last laugh as Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy has been forced to retain the previous Congress government’s February 2018 budget almost in its entirety. Siddaramaiah’s pet schemes - Anna Bhagya, Ksheera Bhagya, Krishi Bhagya, Mathru Poorna among others - will continue. In fact, Kumaraswamy said