Karnataka

Bengaluru, Sept 26: Those who submit fake documents or indulge in such frauds during property registration will now face criminal action. Waking up from its slumber, the Department of Stamps and Registration has started booking criminal cases against those who submit fictitious documents for property registration. So far, authorities have booked 15 cases across the state. “This is the first time

Karwar, Sept 26: As many as 55 houses of Kannadigas staying in Baina area of Goa will be demolished on Tuesday following the orders of the deputy commissioner of south Goa. Kannadigas have been residing in the property in question for the past 40 years. A private company which has purchased this property has initiated measures for eviction. The local body had issued a notice to the residents on

New Delhi, Sept 25: Karnataka government, which has been experiencing drought over the last few years, would urge the Supreme Court to allow it to release lesser quantum of Cauvery water to the neighbouring Tamil Nadu, a state minister said today. Karnataka's water resources minister M B Patil met senior advocate Fali S Nariman here to finalise the final written submission in this regard to be

Bengaluru, Sept 25: Karnataka Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy has reiterated that those who murdered journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh and scholar M M Kalburgi will be arrested shortly. Replying to queries of media persons in Tumakuru, he said that the SIT chief had spoken to him on Friday and the investigation was going in the right direction. Meanwhile, Maharashtra’s Special Public Prosecutor

Mangaluru, Sept 25: Prominent Kannada writer and former English professor Chandrashekara Patil will preside over the 83rd Akhila Bharata Kannada Sahitya Sammelana. The annual literary fest will be held this year in Mysuru from November 24 to 26. Popularly called as Champa, he is the foremost voices of the Bandaya Movement. He had also served as chairman of Kannada Development Authority. He had

Bengaluru, Sept 25: A weekend-trekking turned fatal for a student from Bengaluru who drowned in a temple pond, while his friends were busy taking selfies, at Ravugondlu in Kanakapura taluk on Sunday. The head of the victim, identified as Vishwas, was captured in the selfies. According to preliminary investigations, as his friends were totally engaged in clicking group-selfies, they did not notice

Bengaluru, Sept 25: Income Tax sleuths, searching former chief minister S M Krishna’s son-in-law V G Siddharth’s house and business establishments in Bengaluru and elsewhere in the state and country, have reportedly unearthed Rs 650 crore worth of unaccounted assets. Siddharth is the chairman and managing director of Coffee Day Enterprises Ltd and also has other business interests in financial

Kalaburagi, Sept 25: A massive rally was taken out in Kalaburagi on Sunday, seeking a separate religion status for Lingayat. Hundreds of Lingayats from the Hyderabad-Karnatata districts of Kalaburagi, Yadgir and Bidar, and the neighbouring states of Maharashtra and Telangana, prominent political leaders from the region and seers took part in the rally at the N V Grounds. Addressing the gathering

Bengaluru, Sept 25: The release of Rs 107 crore by the Karnataka State Higher Education Council (KSHEC) for the construction of a building for the Bengaluru Dr B R Ambedkar School of Economics (BBRASE) without a plan or estimate has not gone down well with the Department of Collegiate Education (DCE). The KSHEC released the funds under the Special Component Plan (SCP) and the Tribal Sub Plan (TSP)

Bengaluru, Sept 25: The fight for one-upmanship in the BJP between party state president B S Yeddyurappa and national joint organisational secretary B L Santhosh has come to the fore again, this time over the composition of booth campaign committee. Yeddyurappa and Santhosh, both of whom have been closely associated with the party at the grassroots, have not been seeing eye to eye for some time