Karnataka

Bengaluru, Aug 5: A day after his mother accused Chief Minister Siddaramaiah of letting down her son Energy Minister D K Shivakumar, her younger son and MP D K Suresh on Friday sought to downplay her comments. Siddaramaiah however chose not to react. “She is an illiterate. She has not been able to differentiate between the central and the state governments. She is under the impression that the

New Delhi, Aug 4: Even as 24-year-old Hadiya, who was forced to end relationship with her husband and stay in her ‘Hindu’ father’s home by Kerala High Court has been reeling under depression, the Supreme Court has been presented with two conflicting versions about her decision to embrace Islam. Her husband, Shafeen Jahan, portrayed Hadiya as an independent and devout woman who converted to Islam

New Delhi, Aug 4: The government on Friday made a strong pitch for the use of Aadhaar number to register deaths to prevent “identity fraud”, but stopped short of making it mandatory even as fears of privacy being compromised are yet to be put to rest. The Registrar General India (RGI), in a notification, stated that the Aadhaar-linked death registration will start from October 1. The government

Bengaluru, Aug 4: Even as Income Tax department sleuths continued the search and seizure of documents from Karnataka Energy Minster D.K. Shivakumar’s residence on the third day, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday questioned the timing of the raids. “I am not against raids per se, but look at the timing of the raids,” he told reporters, adding that it was “politically motivated.” The Chief

Mangaluru, Aug 4: Amidst reports of Gulf job aspirants from across India including from Karnataka often being cheated by the visa agents, the Indian Consulate in Dubai has cautioned job-seekers not to travel to the UAE on visit visas. In a recent interview, Indian consul general Vipul had said that the diplomatic mission has been getting calls from those on visit visas to the UAE being duped by

Mangaluru, Aug 4: Blood Helpline-Karnataka will be celebrating its first anniversary by holding a massive blood donation camp on August 6th at Forum Fiza Mall, Manglauru. The event will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. As part of the program it will also honor the achievers in the society. The program will be presided over by Iftikar Krishnapura and will be inaugurated by U.T.Khader, Minister for

Bengaluru, Aug 4: Bengaluru city police has arrested a young techie on the charge of accessing Aadhaar data following a complaint filed by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) last week. The arrested is Abhinav Srivastav, 31, an IIT-Kharagpur graduate, who is currently employed by ANI Technologies, which owns the Ola brand, as a software development engineer. He has been accused of

Mangaluru, Aug 4: The work on laying the natural gas pipeline in the 83-km stretch of GAIL (India) Limited’s Kochi-Koottanad-Bengaluru-Mangaluru (KKBMPL) pipeline project is progressing without any hassles as the company along with the Revenue Department has completed the process of assessing the compensation to landowners for acquiring Right of User (RoU) under the Petroleum and Minerals Pipeline

Bengaluru, Jul 4: V Dhananjaya Kumar, former BJP leader, who had quit the saffron party along with former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa to float a regional party in Karnataka, on Thursday formally joined the Congress. Mr. Kumar, 66, a former Union Minister, met AICC vice-president Rahul Gandhi during the latter’s visit to Bengaluru, a few days ago, and expressed willingness to join the party. He

Bengaluru, Aug 4: Two former prison officials have been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment and fined Rs 50,000 each for helping Abdul Karim Telgi run the multi-crore stamp paper scam behind bars. The High Court of Karnataka has convicted Superintendent P N Jayasimha and Assistant Superintendent Nanjappa for helping Telgi in the Bengaluru Central Prison at Parappana Agrahara in 2001-2002. The