Karnataka

Bengaluru, Jul 26: Cybercrime sleuths from the Criminal Investigation Department have busted a marketing and phishing racket, and arrested four persons from Jharkhand. Details of 16,000 bank accounts and 460 Sim cards have been recovered from the quartet, which includes two siblings. The fraudsters allegedly hosted fake websites offering to sell products at deep discounts and pay high interest on

Udupi, Jul 26: Vishwesha Tirtha Swami of Paryaya Pejawar Mutt has warned that separation of Veerashaiva-Lingayat community from the Hindu dharma will be a loss for both Hindus and Lingayats. “State government has not submitted any proposal to the Union government on the Veerashaiva-Lingayat community becoming a religion. There was only discussion going on this matter. If there is division in the

Mysuru, Jul 26: JD(S) state president H D Kumaraswamy on Tuesday decried the raking up of the issue of separate Lingayat-Veerashaiva religion and the move to have a separate Karnataka state flag. Speaking to reporters here, Kumaraswamy said Chief Minister Siddaramaiah is dividing the society on faith and caste lines and also playing with emotional issues in an irresponsible manner. “After creating

Bengaluru, Jul 26: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday said the “loudmouth,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi with zero achievements has mastery over marketing. Speaking at the inauguration of various welfare schemes of Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) for weaker sections, Siddaramaiah said, “I am accused of not marketing the state government’s welfare scheme. We believe in work and not

Bengaluru/Raichur, Jul 26: Water Resources Minister M B Patil on Tuesday said the Centre should take note of the demand of Veerashaiva-Lingayats and declare their dharma as a separate religion. Speaking to reporters in Bengaluru, Patil said there has already been a delay in meeting the long-standing demand of the Veerashaiva-Lingayats for a separate religion. He said leaders campaigning for the

Bengaluru, Jul 26: Senior Congress leader and a former Minister Qamarul Islam has been appointed All India Congress Committee Secretary. AICC general secretary Janardan Dwivedi in a release on Tuesday confirmed that Congress president Sonia Gandhi has approved the name of Mr. Islam for the post of AICC Secretary. Mr. Islam will be Secretary in-charge of Kerala, he added. An MLA from Gulbarga-North

Bengaluru, Jul 25: Minister for Forests B. Ramanath Rai’s closed-door meeting with Chief Minister Siddaramaiah late on Tuesday fuelled speculation that he may be named the next Home Minister. Rai met Siddaramaiah at his official residence ‘Krishna’ on Tuesday evening and held discussion on the possible change of portfolio. A source close to Rai said that an initially reluctant Mr. Rai agreed to

Mangaluru, Jul 25: Sleuths of directorate of revenue intelligence (DRI) on Tuesday nabbed an aircraft maintenance technician with Jet Airways at Mangalore International Airport (MIA) for his involvement in gold smuggling. Specific intelligence developed by sleuths indicated gold was being smuggling through MIA wherein bars of foreign make concealed inside toilets of aircraft coming from Gulf

Mumbai, Jul 25: Air India has derostered two women pilots as they forgot to retract the landing gear of a city- bound flight after take off from Kolkata last week, according to airline officials. Faced with low fuel for the onward journey, the flight was diverted to Nagpur, where it made a safe landing. The incident involving Kolkata-Mumbai flight — that was carrying nearly 100 passengers —

New Delhi, Jul 25: For the woman once dubbed the 'world's heaviest', treatment and recovery was a distant dream. Financial constraints, her condition which rendered her limbs useless and lack of proper treatment at her hometown in Egypt, further dimmed the prospects of getting help. But, their constant search bore fruit when India's Dr. Muffazal Lakdawala heard about their predicament and flew the