Karnataka

Udupi, Mar 14: A doctor was left poorer by Rs 4 lakh when he gave his debit card to a staff at Gundmi toll gate on the Kochi-Mumbai National Highway near Udupi as he did not have Rs 40 change in his pocket. Dr Rao from Mysuru was travelling in his chauffeur-driven car to Mumbai via the coast last weekend. Around 10.30pm, he gave his debit card to pay the Rs 40 toll. The attendant, after swiping

Bengaluru, Mar 14: The Karnataka High Court on Monday quashed the Enforcement Directorate report attaching the property of former minister Gali Janardhana Reddy and his company. Probing the illegal mining case, the ED had attached industries, mines and shares belonging to Reddy and his company, worth more than Rs 900 crore. The court said the Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR), filed by

Washington, Mar 14: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has emerged as a clear favourite for the 2019 general elections after the BJP's landslide victory in assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, top US experts on India have said. While one of the expert noted that the electoral results of the just concluded Assembly polls in five states show that the 2014 Lok Sabha election results were

Bengaluru, Mar 14: Senior Congress leader B K Hariprasad resigned from the post of AICC General Secretary and as Congress Working Committee member owning moral responsibility for the party’s defeat in local body elections in Odisha. He told reporters on Monday that the party has not been able to perform well in the elections to ZP’s in Odisha recently. It is said the Congress would revamp the AICC

Bengaluru, Mar 14: Former chief minister and BJP state president B?S?Yeddyurappa took Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and his colleagues to task for commenting against him and the BJP. Yeddyurappa told reporters here on Monday, “Siddaramaiah has lost his mental balance. The CM?is more worried about the diary of MLC Govindaraj seized during an income tax raid. The MLC?has clearly mentioned the details

Bengaluru, Mar 14: Right to Information Act is not only a tool for transparency, but it also enables a channel of communication between the government and the people, preventing the latter from taking to extremism to get justice, social activist and India’s first information commissioner Wajahat Habibullah said on Monday. Delivering a lecture on ‘RTI and National Security: Contradiction or

Bengaluru, Mar 14: Security measures introduced to make the II PU?exam foolproof helped track a lecturer who sent pictures of a question paper through WhatsApp on Monday. The accused, Siddangouda, is a part-time lecturer at Kalinga PU College in Manvi, Raichur district. Siddangouda entered a classroom at SRSVS College by posing as a member of the flying squad and took a picture of the Accountancy

New Delhi, Mar 14: A 27-year-old student of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) allegedly committed suicide due to depression in South Delhi's Munirka area on Monday evening. While police said he was depressed over personal issues, his friends shared his Facebook post in which he had alleged discrimination in MPhil and PhD admissions. The deceased, Muthukrishanan Jeevanantham was a student of MPhil

Mysuru, Mar 13: A six-member gang, including two women, have been arrested for allegedly blackmailing and honeytrapping a Kerala-based jeweller in Mysuru. The gang had allegedly demanded Rs 1 crore from T V Nissar, a jeweller from Kannur, and then settled for Rs 25 lakh. He was being blackmailed with a video footage that showed him with a girl in a compromising position at a hotel here. Police

New Delhi, Mar 13: Union minister Kiren Rijiju on Monday described the attack on a student from Arunachal Pradesh in Bengaluru as “saddening” and said the Home Ministry is also pursuing the matter besides the police investigation. “When we are talking of safety of Indians abroad such incidents in our country are very saddening,” Mr. Rijiju said. The Union Minister of State for Home said police are