Karnataka

Mangaluru, Jun 14: The Centre for Advanced Learning (CFAL) has the first and second rank in Dakshina Kannada district in the prestigious entrance examination JEE Advanced 2018. Navaneesha is the first rank holder in district (AIR- 406) and Shreesha G Bhat is the second rank holder (AIR-851). JEE-Main and JEE-Advanced are the two stages involved with the selection process of Indian Institutes of

Udupi, Jun 14: The local unit of Youth Congress has urged the party high command to make Udupi’s lone Congress MLC K Pratapchandra Shetty a minister in the coalition government led Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy. Speaking to media persons here Kundapur Youth Congress Committee president Ichitartha Shetty said that Udupi district, wherein Congress lost all the seats to BJP in recent assembly polls

Bengaluru, Jun 14: The accused in the Gauri Lankesh murder case planned to assassinate Kannada writer K S Bhagwan three months after her slaying or before the Assembly polls, it has emerged. The team, however, shelved the idea after accused K T Naveen Kumar’s arrest. SIT sources said all the accused in the Gauri Lankesh case conspired to kill Bhagwan and had started a recce at his house. Naveen

Bengaluru, Jun 14: Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy on Wednesday said an announcement on the quantum of farm loan waiver would be made in the state budget, likely to be presented in July first week. Speaking to reporters after participating in the ‘Amavasye puja’ at Kalabhyraveshwara temple at Adichunchanagiri Mutt, he said, “I am not an escapist like leaders of other parties. I am committed to

Bengaluru, Jun 14: Lingayat spiritual leader Mathe Mahadevi on Wednesday advised disgruntled Congress leader M B Patil to quit the party since he was not given a Cabinet berth. “Never have I made political statements, but today, I must say that M B Patil was at the forefront of the Lingayat religion movement. Him being denied a Cabinet position because of that is an insult to the entire community

Bengaluru, Jun 13: The Bharatiya Janata Party won in three out of the six Karnataka Legislative Council seats, the results of which were announced on Wednesday. Of the remaining three, JD(S) won two seats while Congress won one seat. Polls were held on June 6, for six seats of which four were held by BJP and two by JD(S). BJP candidates A. Deve Gowda, Ayanur Manjunath and Y.A. Narayanaswamy

Bengaluru, Jun 13: Eminent film and theatre personality Girish Karnad and several litterateurs and rationalists were on the hit list of those suspected of killing journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh, officials said on Wednesday. Besides Karnad, a recipient of the Jnanpith Award, the highest honour in literature, politician-litterateur BT Lalitha Naik, pontiff Veerabhadra Channamalla Swamy of

Bengaluru, Jun 13: The victory of Sowmya Reddy in prestigious Jayanagar Constituency takes the tally of women legislators in the new Karnataka Legislative Assembly to eight. (from top to left) Sowmya Reddy, Lakshmi R Hebbalkar, M Roopakala, Kaneez Fatima, Anjali Hemant Nimbalkar, Shashikala Annasaheb Jolle, K Poornima, Roopali Santosh Naik. On May 15 when results of 222 assembly constituencies

Mangaluru, Jun 13: Doctors at KS Hegde Hospital here have performed a rare first of its kind procedure. A young 26 year old man Sripad Naik (name changed) presented to the hospital with severe abdominal pain and progressive abdominal distension for a month. On evaluation he was found to have severe pancreatitis with a large cystic collection adjacent to the pancreas suggestive of pseudo cyst of

New Delhi, Jun 13: Bengaluru is the second least expensive city to relocate in terms of living expenses for the first month, following Egyptian capital Cairo, says a report. According to a study by furnished apartment search engine Nestpick, the first month living expense in Cairo stood at USD 656, while for Bengaluru it was at USD 742.13. In the overall list, the Indian city was ranked 79th