Karnataka

Bengaluru, Jul 17: Karnataka is releasing 25 to 30 per cent of total inflows in Cauvery basin to Tamil Nadu every day as per a Supreme Court order, state minister M B Patil said here today. The state had also since June 1 released 2.2 tmc ft water to the neighbouring state, he said. "We are releasing 25 to 30 per cent of the inflow of water in Cauvery basin every day to Tamil Nadu as per the

Bengaluru, Jul 17: Following the protest by prisoners to transfer Krishna Kumar, chief superintendent of Bengaluru Central Prisons at Parappana Agrahara also has been transferred. The direction from Under Secretary of Karnataka government, MR Shobha has issued an order to transfer Krishna Kumar from his post at the Bengaluru Prisons with immediate effect. Krishna Kumar was accused of beating up

Bengaluru, Jul 17: After meeting Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Karnataka Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president B.S. Yeddyurappa on Monday said that he had requested the former to open a National Investigation Agency (NIA) office in Mangaluru, adding Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) worker Sharath Madiwala murder case to be referred to the agency. "We have requested Union Home Minister

Mangaluru's 'Nostalgia' dance trio of Gavin Rodrigues, Nicky Pinto and Leonel Sequeira have made Mangaluru proud by making it to the Top-12 of the Dance Plus3 reality show being aired on Star Plus television channel. The show is being shown on Star Plus television channel on every saturday and sunday at 8 pm and 10 pm respectively. The trio who went through several auditions in Bangalore and

Bengaluru, Jul 17: The Karnataka government transferred DIG (Prisons) D Roopa on Monday, days after the top cop exposed special treatment extended to AIADMK leader VK Sasikala at a Bengaluru prison. “I haven’t received a copy of the notice. I will react after receiving the copy,” Roopa, who has been transferred to the traffic wing, told CNN-News18. The senior IPS officer had submitted a report to

Puttur, Jul 17: A team of police has seized Rs 50 lakh in demonetised denominations of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 and arrested three people in this regard in the taluk. Acting on a tip off sleuths from the Puttur Town Police Station waylaid a car near Urlandy and made the seizure. The accused were were travelling by a car from Madikeri towards Mani in Puttur taluk. The Puttur town police have registered

Puttur, Jul 17: A group of five men allegedly attacked an official of a co-operative bank in Kadaba town in Puttur taluk on Sunday. The police have identified the victim as Ramesh Bhat Kalpure, vice-president of Kadaba C.A. Bank. Ramesh was returning to his vehicle after shopping when the assailants attacked him with iron rods. While the victim has been shifted to a hospital in Puttur, the police

Bengaluru/Mysuru, Jul 17: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah is learnt to have taken retired IPS officer and advisor to Home Minister Kempaiah and Director General of Police (Intelligence) M N Reddi to task for not properly handling the row over irregularities at Bengaluru Central Prison at Parappana Agrahara. Soon after his arrival in Bengaluru from Mysuru on Sunday, the chief minister, who also holds

Hubballi, Jul 17: Senior BJP leader Jagadish Shettar on Sunday said that with Assembly elections round the corner, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has now realised that he is a Hindu. Reacting to a statement made by the chief minister at a rally in Mysuru on Saturday that he too is a Hindu, Shettar said that for first time Siddaramaiah has realised that he is a Hindu. All these days, he claimed to be

Bengaluru, Jul 17: The investigation into the case of attempt to kidnap Vinay, the personal assistant of the Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Council K S Eshwarappa, took a curious turn with the police visiting BJP state president B S Yeddyurappa’s house in the city on Saturday night to look for one of the suspects. A police team led by Assistant Commissioner of Police (Malleswaram sub