Karnataka

Mangaluru, Mar 1: Low-cost passenger carrier IndiGo has announced seven new domestic flights. “IndiGo will operate two direct daily flights on Hyderabad-Nagpur-Hyderabad sector, three direct daily flights on Hyderabad-Mangaluru-Hyderabad sector from March 25, 2018,” the airline said in a statement. From May 1, two direct daily flights will operate on the Chennai-Mangaluru-Chennai sector, it said.

Bengaluru: A three-year-old female leopard, escaping a forest fire, strayed into amusement park WonderLa near Bidadi, on the outskirts of Bengaluru, on Wednesday afternoon. Around 800 visitors were in the park when the wild beast entered the park and took refuge in the Ghost House, even as many unsuspecting families with children passed through thrill-house assuming it to be one of the scary items

Tumakuru Mar 1: Karnataka is ahead of all states in the generation of solar power said Energy Minister D K Shivakumar. He was speaking at the inauguration of the 600 MW first stage of solar park at Shakti Sthala in Pavagada taluk, Tumakuru district, on Thursday. The minister revealed that 3,628 MW was being generated in the state. In comparison, Gujrat was generating 1,585 MW; Madhya Pradesh 1,537

New Delhi, Mar 1: Senior Congress leader Madhusudan Mistry will head the party's screening committee for the upcoming Karnataka Assembly elections. Congress President Rahul Gandhi today approved his name while constituting the screening panel for the crucial poll. Party MPs Tamradhwaj Sahu and Gaurav Gogoi will be members of the panel which will also comprise of party general secretary in-charge

Mangaluru, Mar 1: U T Khader, Minister for Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs, who landed in a controversy following this recent scathing attack against those who object him visiting Hindu religious programmes, has downplayed the ongoing hate-campaign against him on social media platforms. Speaking at an event near Puttur in Dakshina Kannada district a few days ago, the minister had said

Bengaluru Mar 1: Chief Electoral Officer of the state, Sanjeev Kumar, on Wednesday dismissed apprehensions about pooling in EVMs (electronic voting machine) and VVPATs (voter verifiable paper audit trail) from Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat. Addressing reporters here, Kumar said that deployment of EVMs and VVPATs is done on requirement for a particular election and availability of the same in the state

Bengaluru Mar 1: JD(S) leader P G R Sindhia on Wednesday said the state government should convene a meeting of leaders of all political parties and irrigation experts to discuss the Supreme Court verdict on the Cauvery river issue. The state has to be careful in order to protect the interest of people in the Cauvery basin region. The state may land in trouble if appropriate steps are not taken

Mysuru, Mar 1: MP Pratap Simha said, actor Prakash Raj has sincerely admitted his value in the society, before the court itself, by filing a defamation case against him, claiming a damage of Re 1. He was addressing a media conference, here on Wednesday, after Raj filed a case against him in a city court, on Tuesday, for sharing a post that said 'Raj slept with a woman, when his son died', on the

Bengaluru, Mar 1: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said the vision of the state government was to make Karnataka 'hunger-free', 'hut-free', 'drought-free' and also 'communalism-free'. Speaking at 'Prajamatha', an interactive programme with experts from various sectors organised by Prajavani, a sister publication of Deccan Herald, in Bengaluru, Siddaramaiah said his government, during the last five

Ajman (UAE): Away from the cameras' flash and the eyes of her millions of fans in India, the actress Sridevi's body made its way to a simple mortuary in the United Arab Emirates, where one man helped sign out her remains to return home. Listed only as "ASHRAF" on the official paperwork in Dubai is Ashraf "Sherry" Thamarassery, a 44-year-old Indian from Kerala who has become a ferryman of sorts for