Karnataka

Bengaluru, Aug 24: The Supreme Court has stayed death penalty of a Gadag resident on his appeal challenging conviction and punishment for rape-cum-murder of a five-year-old girl child. A bench of Justices Dipak Misra, Kurian Joseph and Amitava Roy suspended execution of Irappa Siddappa Murgannavar till further orders. The petitioner challenged the High Court of Karnataka’s order of March 6. The

Mumbai, Aug 24: The Reserve Bank will launch Rs 200 banknotes for the first time tomorrow, increasing availability of lower denomination currency in the system. The bright yellow coloured notes will hit the market just a day after the announcement by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley that the government has given go-ahead to the RBI to issue the new currency bill. "The Reserve Bank of India will issue

Bengaluru, Aug 24: Veerashaiva-Lingayat seers came together on Wednesday and demanded a 12-15% reservation for the community, while intensifying their demand for a separate religion status. Pontiffs representing the influential Panchapeeta mutts as well as several other independent mutts of the Basavadisharana tradition had gathered under the banner of Veerashaiva-Lingayat Coordination Committee

Bengaluru, Aug 24: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has got a ‘clean chit’ from the Justice H S Kempanna Commission, which inquired into charges of illegal denotification of parcels of land acquired for BDA’s Arkavathy Layout, by successive governments. Three years after the state government constituted the Commission in 2014, Justice Kempanna submitted a eport to Chief Secretary Subhash Chandra

A few days ago, a 10-year-old rape victim, whose abortion plea was turned down by the Supreme Court, delivered a baby through C-section at one of the government hospitals in north Indian city of Chandigarh. The news was shocking. But, it wasn’t the first such case in this great country. Child sex abuse is rampant in all parts of India. Even a district like Dakshina Kannada, which is an education

Bengaluru, Aug 23: Priyamani, one of the most in-demand South Indian actresses, who has also made quite a few appearances in a few Bollywood films as well, on Wednesday got married to her long-time boyfriend, businessman Mustafa Raj in Bengaluru. The couple got married in a simple function at the registrar office and they will be hosting a grand reception soon. Ahead of the wedding, a lavish

Bengaluru, Aug 23: The Anti-Corruption Bureau on Wednesday gave an undertaking to the Karnataka High Court that it will neither summon nor arrest former Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa till August 28 in connection with the two cases registered against him on alleged illegal denotification of acquired lands when he was the Chief Minister. Senior counsel for the ACB gave this undertaking when

Bengaluru, Aug 23: The Karnataka government today said it will come out with an "Electric vehicle and energy storage policy" soon with an intention to make the state the electric vehicle capital of the country. "We will soon be coming out with an electric vehicle and energy storage policy. Today in many countries electric vehicles have come, it is going to be the future, but because of the battery

Bengaluru, Aug 23: A couple committed suicide in Kalasipalyam on Monday night, reportedly because they could not repay a Rs 46-lakh loan their son had taken from the local corporator. Nanjundaswamy (48) and Pushpalatha (46), of Pipeline Road, Kalasipalyam, decided to end their lives as Aarya Srinivas, the Congress corporator of Hemmigepura ward, and his associates reportedly kept harassing them

Bengaluru, Aug 23: Karnataka Deputy Inspector General of Police D Roopa, in a report to the ACB has claimed that she had reliable information on jailed AIADMK leader V K Sasikala visiting a house belonging to Hosur MLA, near the Parappana Agrahara Central Prison here. "There is a reliable information that she (Sasikala) sometimes goes to a house near the central jail that belongs to Hosur MLA.