Karnataka

New Delhi, Aug 1: The Centre on Monday released Rs 795.54 crore to Karnataka to provide relief to farmers who lost their rabi (winter) crops in 2016 due to severe drought. Though the High Power Committee headed by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh had approved the funds on June 29, the fund was released to the state now, said an official in the Ministry of Finance. Though the Karnataka government

Bengaluru, Aug 1: The Gujarat Congress Committee will bear the expenses of the stay of 44 MLAs at a private resort on the city outskirts here, a senior party leader in Karnataka said. As their stay to fend off "poaching" attempts by the BJP ahead of the August 8 Rajya Sabha polls in Gujarat entered the third day today, a few MLAs from flood-hit constituencies of the state reportedly expressed

New Delhi, Aug 1: The government has ordered state-run oil companies to raise subsidised cooking gas (LPG) prices by Rs 4 per cylinder every month to eliminate all the subsidies by March next year, Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Monday. The government had previously asked Indian Oil (IOC), Bharat Petroleum (BPCL) and Hindustan Petroleum (HPCL) to raise rates of subsidised domestic LPG

Mangaluru, Jul 31: The Beary-Kannada-English dictionary is a symbol of communal harmony as it shows the close links of Beary with Kannada, Tulu, Malayalam and English, said writer Aravind Malagatti on Monday. He was speaking at the launch of the dictionary brought out by the Karnataka Beary Sahitya Academy. Mr. Malagatti said language was the soul of community culture and by bringing out a Beary

Bengaluru, Jul 31: Bengaluru City Police commissioner Praveen Sood has been transferred on Monday. He is posted as the ADGP Communications, Logistics and Modernisation. Suneel Kumar, who was Additional Director General of Police and Managing Director of Karnataka State Police Housing Corporation will replace Sood. Praveen Sood took charge on January 1. Sood had filed cases against 36 Kannada

Bengaluru, Jul 31: Veteran Karnataka BJP leader B B Shivappa today passed away following prolonged illness at a private hospital here. He was 89. Shivappa is survived by wife and three sons. Hospital and party officials said Shivappa was ill for some time and also had age-related ailments. The body would be kept at the partyoffice and former legislator's home for his supporters and public topay

New Delhi, Jul 31: The Supreme Court on Monday granted 14-days interim bail to 2008 Bengaluru blasts case accused Abdul Naasar Ma'adani to attend his son's wedding. Ma'adani had knocked the doors of the apex court Court seeking bail to attend his son Umar Mukhtar' wedding to be held at Thalassery on 9 August. In fact, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) court had rejected Ma'adani's plea on

Bengaluru, Jul 31: Taking his advocacy of Kannada nationalism to a new level, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has reportedly said that any attack on Kannada will not be tolerated. According to News Minute, the Congress government in this southern state had released a 14-minute video on YouTube, which shows CM Siddaramaiah as saying, ''those coming to Karnataka must adapt to the Kannada

Thiruvananthapuram, Jul 31: Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Monday held a meeting with the CPI-M and BJP-RSS leaders following violence over the killing of an RSS worker and announced an all-party meeting on August 6 to bring about peace. Addressing reporters after the hour-long meeting, Vijayan said peace talks were held in Kannur three months ago, but they failed to yield the desired

New Delhi, Jul 31: The income tax department has extended the deadline to file returns to 5 August. As per the earlier notification, today (31 July) was the last day. "In view of the difficulties faced by taxpayers, date for filing of Income Tax Returns for FY 2016-17 has been extended to 5th August, 2017," the I-T department tweeted. Many tax payers have been complaining of difficulties in filing