Karnataka

Bengaluru, May 28: A team pf Income tax officials raided the house of a Congress leader in Rajarajeshwari Nagar on last evening. The polling began in the constituency on Mondaymorning. A team of officials entered the house of Ravi Gowda, the president of Rajarajeshwari Nagar block Congress, near BDA Complex in Nagarabhavi around 4 pm and searched it till8.30 pm. They pored over some documents and

Panaji, May 28: A fever patient, who travelled from Kerala to Goa, was quarantined at the isolation ward of the state-run Goa Medical College and Hospital (GMC) on Monday after he developed symptoms of those affected by deadly virus Nipah. Speaking to reporters, Health Minister Vishwajit Rane said it was not clear whether the person was suffering from the Nipah disease or not and it would be clear

New Delhi, May 28: Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy, who held a meeting with Congress veteran Ghulam Nabi Azad in New Delhi on Monday, later told media persons the differences over sharing of portfolios among the Congress and the JD (S) have been resolved. Kumaraswamy, who landed here on his first official visit after becoming the chief minister, met Azad at an undisclosed venue and discussed the

Bengaluru, May 28: The opposition BJP's appeal to farmers and the public to "voluntarily observe a bandh" across Karnataka on Monday to protest the alleged failure of Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy to keep up his farm loan waiver promise, got off to a dull start. Reports from across the state said normal life has not been affected, with schools and colleges, as also public transport services

Bengaluru, May 28: The Non-Karnataka candidates have bagged 58 of the top 100 ranks at the undergraduate engineering courses examinations conducted by the Consortium of Medical Engineering and Dental Colleges of Karnataka (COMEDK) 2018, the results of which were announced last evening. The list of top 10 rank holders was an all-male affair, and of them, three ranks went to Bengaluru-based students

Dubai: Saanvi Kiran Rai, a Class 9 student from Mangaluru was recently honoured during the 44th UAE Bunts family annual programme held at J W Marriott Hotel, Dubai by the patron of Bunts Padmashree Dr B R Shetty as the ‘2018 Prathibha Puraskar’ student. In April 2016, when she was a Class 7 student at St Joseph’s School, Abu Dhabi, Saanvi had received the prestigious ‘Sheikh Hamdan Award’ which

Bagalkot, May 28: Former union minister and newly-elected Congress MLA Siddu Nyamagouda died in a road accident in Bagalkot district early on Monday, a senior police official said. Nyamagouda was on the way to his constituency Jamkhandi from Goa when the car he was travelling in tried to avoid a lorry and hit a roadside parapet wall, District Superintendent of PoliceVamshikumar said. The 70-year

Bengaluru, May 28: Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamytoday said he was at the 'mercy' of Congress and not the 6.5 crore people of Karnataka as his government had not received the full mandate which his party had sought in the assembly elections. Ahead of his Delhi visit to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other union ministers, he reiterated that farm loan waiver was his priority as he

Bengaluru, May 28: Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy, on Sunday, hinted that there was a tug-of-war between the Congress and the JD(S) with regard to portfolio allocation. The two parties have already come to an understanding that the Congress will have 22 ministerial berths (including chief minister) and the JD(S) will have 12 (including the CM) in the council of ministers. Kumaraswamy is keen on

Mangaluru, May 27: A police constable suffered burns on his face reportedly following lightening at the IPL fan park set up in Nehru Maidan, in the city on Sunday night. According to police, the lightning struck near the big LED projector in the fan park. Siddappaji, a constable with City Armed Reserve (CAR), who was near the projector suffered burns and was immediately shifted to nearby private