Karnataka

Mumbai Mar 10: Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi has openly warned Karnataka Congress leaders against being overconfident ahead of looming Assembly polls. "Karnataka is a very important state for us...we have to do our best to return to power," she said at the India Today conclave in Mumbai, victory will not be very easy. "Our people there are quite confident, however, it is better not to be

Bantwal: In what is seen as a challenge for Congress leader and forest minister B Ramanath Rai, the Social Democratic Party of India has decided to field a candidate in the upcoming Karnataka assembly poll from Bantwal constituency where BJP is leaving no stone unturned to register a victory. At a party worker’s meet held at Al Khazana Community Hall here on Friday, March 9, SDPI state president

Bengaluru Mar 9: Lakshmi, the 23-year-old daughter of K Shivamurthy Naik, the Congress MLA from Mayakonda (Davangere district), who was "missing" since March 7, appeared before the Yelahanka New Town police on Friday, along with her husband. The police said that Lakshmi gave a statement saying that she had married Sundar Gowda of her own free will. Gowda is the producer of Kannada film "Mastigudi

Bengaluru, Mar 9: Five days Special Investigation Team (SIT) custody has been granted to suspected accused K T Naveen Kumar by the Bengaluru Magistrate Court on Friday in connection with the murder of journalist and activist Gauri Lankesh. On March 3, the Karnataka Police has taken Naveen Kumar into police custody for questioning in connection with the case. According to media reports, Naveen was

To mark International Women’s Day, budget carrier Air India Express on Thursday operated eight international all-women crew flights including one from Mangaluru to Dubai. Apart from Mangaluru, the all women-crew flights took off from Kochi, Kozhikode, Thiruvananthapuram, Mumbai, Chennai and Delhi. The airline also felicitated all its women/girl passengers traveling on the women’s day with sweets

Mangaluru, Mar 9: A wild elephant trampled a labourer to death and injured two of his colleagues at Kombaru village in Subramanya Range Forest Division in Dakshina Kannada district two days ago. The deceased and injured were 15 labourers from Tamil Nadu employed for constructing a railway bridge on the Subramanya- Mangaluru Railway line. While 12 had left the site to attend a function in their

Honnavar, Mar 9: A group of miscreants belonging to saffron groups waylaid a vehicle transporting cattle and assaulted two persons at Honnavar in Uttara Kannada district on Wednesday night. The Honnavar police have so far arrested four persons allegedly involved in the attack. Superintendent of Police Vinayak Patil said that Noorul Amin, 40, and Guran Pote, 35, were transporting eight heads of

The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) of Karnataka government on Friday carried out three separate raids in different parts of the state and unearthed documents pertaining to alleged illegal wealth acquisition by officers. Excise DySP Vinod Kumar The tam of ACB officers raided the Mangaluru house of Excise Deputy Superintendent Vinod Kumar on Friday. Including this house, they simultaneously raided six

Bengaluru, Mar 9: Lokayukta Justice P Vishwanath Shetty, who was stabbed by Tejraj Sharma, has told members of his family that the attacker did not even give him any time to react and, stabbed him. Justice Shetty's son Shashi Kiran Shetty, senior counsel at High Court of Karnataka, told DH that his father told him on Thursday that he was no way connected with the complaints filed by Sharma. "His

The transfer of Hassan deputy commissioner Rohini Sindhuri Dasari will be put on hold till March 13, the state government informed the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) on Thursday. The2009-batch IAS officer moved the Bengaluru bench of the CAT after the government, on Wednesday, issued an order transferring her as the Commissioner, Department of Employment and Training. This is the second