Karnataka

Mangaluru, Oct 19: Sasikanth Senthil assumed office as the Deputy Commissioner of Dakshina Kannada district, here on Thursday. He succeeded Dr K G Jagadeesha, who was transferred as the Director of the department of Mines and Geology, Bengaluru. Senthil, a 38-year-old, is a 2009 IAS batch pass out and hails from Tamil Nadu. He holds a BE (Electronics) which he passed in first division from the

Bengaluru, Oct 19: Three-year-old Sanjana, who had suffered 60% burns in the building collapse incident following an LPG cylinder explosion at Ejipura, here, on Monday, died at the Victoria Hospital on Thursday evening. Sanjana’s mother Ashwini, who was eight months pregnant, and her father Saravana had died in the incident. With Sanjana’s death the toll mounted to eight. Seven persons had died on

Jubail, Oct 19: Saudi Premier League-2017 has got underway at Jubail with the sponsorship of Spark Arabia. For the first time in Kingdom players were purchased through auction. Opening The grand opening ceremony of first SPL-2017 was conducted at Al-Falah cricket ground Al-Jubail on October 12 with SPL march past by all 6 team players, tournament officials and Al Falah cricket Academy kids. Main

Kochi, Oct 19: A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court on Thursday deprecated the recent trend in the State to portray every case of inter-religious marriages as either “love jihad” or “ghar wapsi.” The Bench, headed by Justice V. Chitambaresh, while disposing of a habeas corpus petition observed: “We are appalled to notice the recent trend in the State to sensationalise every case of inter

Bengaluru, Oct 19: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday wrote to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, urging him to exempt handmade products from the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime. Siddaramaiah’s letter to Jaitley comes even as veteran theatreperson Prasanna’s hunger strike against taxation of handmade products entered its sixth day in Bengaluru. “Handmade products of various kinds are produced

Bengaluru, Oct 19: Karnataka Congress leader G Parameshwara today said Rahul Gandhi has advised state party leaders against making personal comments on opposition BJP leaders and instead engage them on national and local issues in run up to the next year's assembly elections. KPCC leaders including Parameshwara, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Karnataka party incharge and AICC General Secretary K

Bengaluru, Oct 19: BJP state president B S Yeddyurappa was on Thursday discharged from the hospital. The 74-year-old former chief minister was admitted to a private hospital in Bengaluru, for high fever and fluctuations in blood pressure. According to Dr Prasad of Sagar Apollo Hospital, where Yeddyurappa was admitted, the former chief minister almost recovered from the fever.

Bengaluru, Oct 19: Nandini M, a city-based software engineer, who prefers to be identified as an “animal rights activist” hit the headlines earlier this week after she was allegedly attacked by a mob under the limits of Talaghattapura police station. The woman had claimed that she was attacked and her car was damaged by a mob after she lodged a formal complaint with the jurisdictional police

Vijayapura, Oct 19: A man in Karnataka has dragged a ‘vaastu’ consultation firm to the court, saying his life didn’t have the necessary changes after he made the architectural changes that he was directed to make by the firm. About two years ago, Mahadev Dudihal, an employee with a legal firm in Vijayapura in north Karnataka, had contacted a Vaastu firm for advice after watching its advertisement

Bengaluru, Oct 19: Five days after releasing sketches of suspects in the Gauri Lankesh murder case, along with a video grab showing a motorcycle rider near Gauri's residence, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the killing of the journalist-activist said they have made no major breakthrough as the face of the rider was not visible. MN Anuchet, deputy chief, SIT, said that despite using