Karnataka

Bidar, Feb 2: A team of the Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday reached Karnataka's Bidar to investigate the mysterious death of 2007 batch Karnataka cadre IAS officer, Anurag Tiwari. Anurag was found dead in mysterious conditions outside a VIP guest house in Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow last year. The post-mortem report had said the cause of death was "asphyxia". Earlier, Tiwari's murder case

Bengaluru, Feb 2: Terming the proposed Bengaluru Bandh on February 4 as ‘unconstitutional’ the Karnataka High Court on Friday directed the state government and law enforcement agencies to do all that is necessary to ensure that commerce and industry as well life of common people are not affected by any way when Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Bengaluru. The court was hearing a public interest

Mangaluru, Feb 2: The Karnataka state committee of the Social Democratic Party of India has nominated Ataullah Jokatte as the new president of its Dakshina Kannada district unit. The announcement was made during the party’s district committee meet here recently. SDPI state president Abdul Hannan, general secretary Abdul Lateheef and district committee office bearers and members were present in the

A conman, who claimed to be a paediatrician hailing from Mangaluru and working in the United Kingdom cheated a 33-year-old hospital admin executive in Bengaluru of around Rs 2 lakh after promising to marry her. Deepika (name changed) was surprised when Dr Stanislaus Lobo, a doctor from the UK, expressed interest in her profile on the matrimonial site. The two exchanged telephone numbers and began

Mangaluru, Feb 2: The Anti-Rowdy squad of Mangaluru South Division has arrested a native of Kerala, who is allegedly involved in 13 criminal cases. The arrested has been identified as Mohammed Rafiq alias Nappate Rafiq (29), a native of Uppala in Kasaragod district. The police said that a complaint was recently against Rafiq, and his aides, who were accused of entering a house in Kuttar in

A S Patil Nadahalli, MLA from Devarahipparagi in Vijayapura slapped a youth on a stage during a public event when the latter accused the former of encroaching upon his land. The incident took place on Thursday when Karigouda of Adavisomanna village came near the stage accusing Mr. Nadahalli of donating land belonging to him for a government hospital. The man said the land actually belonged to him

Bengaluru, Feb 2: The online application form for the Common Entrance Test (CET) 2018 was released by the Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) on Thursday. Students who want to write the entrance examination should complete the application form by 5.30 pm on February 26. Instructions on filling the online application are available on the KEA website (http://kea.kar.nic.in/). Students are advised

Mangaluru, Feb 2: A retired Panchayat Development Officer and a Panchayat Secretary in Mangaluru taluk were on Thursday sentenced to one year imprisonment in a bribery case. The III Additional District and Sessions Judge B. Muralidhar Pai also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on finding the two guilty of accepting bribe of Rs. 3,000. According to the chargesheet, Konaje Panchayat Development Officer

New Delhi Feb 2: In an apparent move to rein-in Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, the Congress high command has issued a strict instruction to the state leadership not to promise the party ticket (B Form) for the upcoming Assembly elections to any aspirants, without its approval. The Congress top brass' instruction comes in the wake of complaints from a section of Karnataka Congress leaders that

Bengaluru, Feb 1: The situation has turned worse again in Bellandur lake on Thursday afternoon, after another fire broke out, barely half a month after a massive fire took root in the diseased lake. The fire was first spotted by the locals at 3.30 pm. "Then it seemed small and by 4.30 pm it seemed like it was coming down. but now it is increasing. By 5.30 pm it has started to spread," said