Karnataka

New Delhi, Oct 10: The President is likely to approve in a "day or two" the Karnataka land reform bill which provides for giving farm labourers rights over houses build on the land not belonging to them prior January 1, 1979, the state's Assembly Speaker K B Koliwad said today. The Karnataka Land Reforms (Amendment) Bill, 2016 was passed unanimously in both the Houses of the state legislature. It

Wayanad, Oct 10: Gold ornaments weighing about 34.350 kgs and worth more than ₹11 crore were seized from six passengers of a private bus in the district early today. Acting on a tip off, a team of excise department sleuths intercepted the bus, proceeding to Perinthalmanna in Malappuram district at 4.45a.m. at Tholpetti check post, an excise official said. During the search, the gold ornaments

After Chief Minister Siddaramaiah expressed his desire to contest the 2018 assembly elections from Chamundeshwari constituency in Mysuru, his friends-turned-foes in both the JD(S) and the BJP are learnt to have put their heads together to come up with a ‘game plan’ to “politically finish” their common arch-rival. In a politically significant development, former Minister V Srinivas Prasad from the

Kannur, Oct 10: The Kerala police have recovered a huge cache of weapons from the office of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Kannur district following a raid. The police have seized steel bombs, swords, iron rods and other sharp weapons from the BJP office in Panoor area of Kannur. The raids were conducted after a tip-off from the local residents living in the area around the office. The development

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh leader Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat has urged the Karnataka government to issue a strict diktat to the religious centres of Christians and Muslims to compulsorily celebrate all the national festivals of India. Speaking to media persons in Belagavi on Monday, Bhat said that it was the responsibility of the State government to ensure that national festivals are celebrated in

Mangalurean beauty Joyce John Rego has been crowned ‘Mrs India Dubai 2017’ at the ‘Mrs India Earth' grand finale in Delhi. She was among the top 25 contestants and the only finalist chosen among the 1000 applicants from the UAE. The Finale was held on October 6 at New Delhi. Joyce, a semi government employee and mother of 2 kids, is residing in UAE past 12 years. She is daughter of John Gudinho

Chikkaballapur, Oct 10: The deep-rooted caste system in society may severly hit the successful implemenation of the newly launched “Mathru Poorna” scheme. Under the scheme, anganwadi workers have to cook and serve nutritious food to pregnant and lactating women at anganwadi centres. Of the 1,961 anganwadi centres in Chikkaballapur district, the beneficiaries of “Mathru Poorna” at more than 350

Bengaluru, Oct 10: Higher Education Minister Basvaraj Rayaraddi has clarified that the Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) would not be closed down. Addressing presspersons here, the minister blamed the Centre and the University Grants Commission (UGC) for the present predicament of the KSOU. “Although the State government is trying to revive the university, the Union government and the UGC are

Bengaluru, Oct 10: Former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda has said that the JD(S) has enough candidates to field in all the 28 Parliament and 224 Assembly segments. Speaking to media persons in the city, he said that those aspiring to contest the next Assembly elections on the JD(S) ticket have been given one month’s time to prove their mettle in their constituencies. Ticket has been assured for all

Bengaluru, Oct 10: A young software engineer with Accenture was stabbed to death by two bike-borne men near Chocolate Factory, Tavarekere main road, south Bengaluru, around 3am on Monday. Pranay Mishra, from Bhubaneswar and a resident of Tavarekere, was on his way to meet his girlfriend and colleague who stayed in the neighbourhood when he was killed. According to the police, Pranay had been to a