Karnataka

Bengaluru, Oct 28: Justice K N Keshavanarayana Commission of Enquiry has almost completed the enquiry into the death of DySP M K Ganapathy. The Commission has so for recorded the statements of 47 witnesses during the enquiry. The state government had constituted the commission of enquiry in July 2016. Commission sources said that only the statements of Madikeri SP P Rajendra Prasad and Police

Bengaluru, Oct 28: Energy Minister D K Shivakumar met JD(S) state president H D Kumaraswamy on Friday and obtained his signature to a Legislative Assembly committee report on irregularities in the purchase of power between 2005 and 2013. The report will be submitted to the Legislative Assembly Speaker K B Koliwad on October 30. Kumaraswamy is a member of the House committee and Shivakumar is its

Bengaluru, Oct 28: The BJP on Friday said the Congress, instead of sacking Bengaluru Development Minister K J George was casting aspersions on the Supreme Court. Addressing a press conference here, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar said the Supreme Court had rejected the CID probe into the DySP M K Ganapathy case "lock, stock and barrel" and handed over investigation to the CBI. Javadekar, who has

Riyadh, Oct 27: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has become world’s country to grand citizenship to a non-human woman, making her world’s first robot to get ‘nationality’. Sophia is the name of the robot granted citizenship of Saudi Arabia. She looks a bit like Audrey Hepburn and gives facial expressions while talking. She has an answer for every question. Sophia is a humanoid robot developed by Hanson

Bengaluru, Oct 27: Primary and Secondary Education Minister Tanveer Sait has said the government would complete the entire process of Class 10 and II PU annual examinations, including announcement of results, before May 4, 2018. “This time around, Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board (KSEEB) and Department of Pre-University Education (DPUE) have declared tentative time-tables four

New Delhi, Oct 27: Auto industry body SIAM today said it has written to the Karnataka government to make amendments to the act prohibiting registration of two-wheelers with less than 100 cc engine capacity with a pillion seat. "This is the first time in the country that such a ban has been imposed. There are no such provisions in the Central Motor Vehicles Act either," Society of Indian Automobile

Mangaluru, Oct 27: Accusing the local theatre owners of sidelining the Tulu language cinemas, noted director and actor Devadas Kapikad on Friday claimed that city based Prabhath Theatre reduced the number of shows of his comedy movie ‘Are Marler’ giving priority to other language films. Addressing a press conference here, the veteran artiste said that theatre had breached the promise. He disclosed

Bengaluru, Oct 27: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday rejected the BJP's demand to seek the resignation of Bengaluru City Development Minister K J George. The Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday filed an FIR against George, naming him accused number one (A1), in connection with the death of DySP M K Ganapathy. The FIR has dealt a blow to the Congress ahead of the 2018 Assembly elections

New Delhi, Oct 27: Indians invested Rs 42,000 crore between January 2016 to June 2017 to buy immovable properties in Dubai, thus becoming biggest foreign property buyers in the Emirates again.. According to the Dubai Land Department, the property purchase has seen an increase of Rs 12,000 crore from 2014. In yet another report, the Dubai Land Department had last month said that etween December

Mumbai, Oct 27: The National Investigation Agency (NIA), which filed a charge sheet against the Islamic Research Foundation (IRF) founder Dr Zakir Abdul Karim Naik, has claimed that he deliberately and maliciously insulted the religious beliefs of Hindus, Christians and ‘non-Wahabi Muslims’. However, it did not explain what is Wahabi and what is non-Wahabi. According to NIA, there are 19 immovable