Karnataka

Bengaluru, May 10: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah met Governor Vajubhai Vala at the Raj Bhavan on Monday and sought his approval for three nominations to the Legislative Council. On May 3, Siddaramaiah had recommended former Ramanagaram MLA C M Lingappa, former mayor of Bengaluru P R Ramesh and Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee member Mohan Kondajji for the three nominated seats in the Legislative

Mangaluru, May 10: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday dismissed the complaint of ‘benami assets’ against his son Dr Yathindra as “baseless”. Reacting to media queries over a complaint lodged by a Right To Information (RTI) activist with the Income Tax department in Bengaluru accusing Dr Yathindra of indulging in benami investments abroad, the chief minister said: “It looks like a deliberate

Bengaluru, May 9: Hyperloop India has tied up with a city-based Workbench Projects to build the prototype pod that will feature in the global design competition for the super fast transportation system using magnetic levitation technology. "Hyperloop India team has partnered with us to build the prototype pod in Bengaluru by the end of July. The building work will start from May 22. This will mark

New Delhi, May 9: Baba Ramdev, founder and promoter of the home-grown FMCG company, Patanjali Ayurveda, is moving ever farther from his core competency: yoga. He is setting up a restaurant chain. He said he would be positioning his restaurant chain in the fast food space. The menu would consist of 400 traditional vegetarian recipes. Baba Ramdev's Patanjali group which specializes in herbal juice

Aden, May 9: Abducted Catholic priest from Kerala, Fr Tom Uzhunnalil, has appealed for help in his release in a new video posted on a Yemeni website. Fr Uzhunnalil was abducted by unidentified gunmen in Aden in the Republic of Yemen, in March 2016. In the video, the priest appears with a strip of cardboard with the date 15-4-2017 written on it. He said in the video that his captors were treating

Bengaluru, May 9: An all-party meeting convened by Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to discuss the Centre's proposal of forming a 'group of experts' on distress sharing of Cauvery river water, today decided to consult noted jurist Fali S Nariman on the issue. Nariman heads the legal team for Karnataka on the Cauvery issue. "Today, we have discussed the various pros and cons of the proposal of

Mangaluru, May 9: Australia based United Kannada Sangha in collaboration with Manjunath Education Trust will be organizing 13th World Kannada Cultural Convention on May 13 and 14 in Melbourne and Sydney, Australia. Announcing this at a press meet here on Tuesday, Manjunath Sagar, founder president of Vishwa Kannada Samskriti Sammelana Samiti, said that the convention would showcase the prosperity

Mangaluru, May 9: Expressing a deep distrust towards the local police for not arresting the alleged “mastermind” behind the murder of Karopadi Gram Panchayat vice president Abdul Jaleel, his aggrieved father Haji A Usman on Tuesday urged the State Government to hand over the case to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). Tears rolled down elderly Usman’s wrinkled cheeks when he said that the

New Delhi, May 9: The AAP today staged a "live demonstration" of alleged EVM manipulation in the Delhi Assembly. AAP MLA Saurabh Bhardwaj claimed that anyone knowing a "secret code" can tamper with the EVMs and the code can be fed into a machine while casting vote. The Election Commission has time and again rubbished allegations that EVMs can be programmed to favour any particular party. Before

Thiruvananthapuram, May 9: Two days after a female candidate who appeared for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) in Kannur was asked to remove her inner wear with metal hooks as part of security restrictions, four teachers on duty at the examination centre were placed under suspension pending inquiry. Management of the TISK English Medium School in Kunhimangalam on Tuesday suspended