Karnataka

Bengaluru, Mar 15: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah today presented his 12th budget in Bengaluru. This is the 4th budget as a chief minister of the state. Here are the higlights of the budget *Rice quota under 'Anna Bhagya scheme' has been increased to 7kg from 5kg * Multiplexces to charge maximum of Rs 200 from the customers *Govt to implement seventh pay commission recommendations for state

Mangaluru, Mar 15: Dr Arathi Krishna, vice-chairperson of the Karnataka NRI Forum, has said that her forum is contemplating mandatory registration of employment agencies offering overseas jobs to prevent fraud on innocent people. Speaking to media persons, here on Tuesday, Ms. Krishna said that the forum has planned a slew of programmes for the benefit of the Kannadiga diaspora outside the country

Mangaluru, Mar 15: After the success of National Level Seminar and Media Fest – BEACONS 2K17, Nitte Institute of Communication, constituent college of Nitte University welcomed the popular actor-director of the Sandalwood Industry, Rakshit Shetty on Tuesday, March 14, at their Paneer campus in Deralakatte. Expressing his views on popularizing the Tulu industry, Rakshit Shetty opined that the film

Panaji, Mar 15: A 25-year-old Irish woman was found dead and naked at an isolated open place in South Goa, police said on Wednesday. Police has started investigating the alleged rape and murder of the Irish tourist, who had arrived at Canacona sub-district, known for its popular beaches like Palolem and Agonda, from Arambol in North Goa. According to the police, the deceased had come with a friend

Bengaluru, Mar 15: The Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) has given a clean chit to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah in connection with the Hublot watch case. The officials said Dr Girish Chandra, a doctor based in Dubai and friend of Siddaramaiah, gave his statement before the ACB that he had gifted the expensive watch to the chief minister. A detailed investigation was carried out and it was found that the

Bengaluru, Mar 15: The government on Tuesday took measures to deposit Rs 671 crore to bank accounts of 9.68 lakh drought-hit farmers as input subsidy released by the Centre. The money will be deposited simultaneously through RTGS. The Revenue department, with the assistance of Bhoomi monitoring cell, has developed an exclusive software ‘Parihara’ for this purpose. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah

Bengaluru, Mar 15: Former Chief Minister S.M. Krishna has put off his programme of joining the Bharatiya Janata Party following the death of his sister. The 84-year-old leader, who quit the Congress with which he had associated himself for nearly 50 years on January 28, had already reached New Delhi on Tuesday as he was scheduled to join the BJP on Wednesday. However, his sister Sunitha died on

Bengaluru, Mar 15: Regional Transport Offices (RTOs) do not allow automatic transmission for driving licence (DL) test, senior Transport Department officials directed the RTOs not to turn away people coming for the test with automatic cars. Vehicles with manual transmission require the operation of clutch every time a driver shifts the gear. In automatic cars, the driver still has to operate the

New Delhi, Mar 15: The Rs 2,000 note, which was introduced as recently as November after demonetisation, has already been counterfeited in plenty. The authorities have so far seized 3,692 fake notes of the denomination. The state police departments, RBI, NIA and BSF have seized these fake notes with a face value of Rs 73.84 lakh in 42 cases with around 70 accused. Gujarat leads the pack in

Udupi, Mar 14: Former Udupi-Chikkamagaluru MP Jayaprakash Hegde, who recently joined BJP, said he would continue to follow his conscience and simultaneously value the party ideology he embraced ensuring the wining spree in the coastal belt. Addressing the party workers at the BJP office here on Tuesday, the former Congress leader said that change is a natural phenomenon and there is a need to