Karnataka

New Delhi, Mar 8: India may soon get its first fully-foreign owned airline after the Modi government allowed 100% FDI in the sector last June. Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al Baker said in Berlin Wednesday that he plans to start an airline in India with the investment arm of Qatar government. A Qatar Airways spokesperson quoted the CEO saying that since India now allows 100% FDI, he plans to do so with

Bengaluru, Mar 8: Former prime minister and JDS chief H D Deve Gowda today said regional parties do not have the strength to stop BJP's political growth as they lack unity. He also said if BJP manages to win Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections on its own, the party will next focus on southern India, starting from Karnataka. "The point is today, what next? There is no oppositionin Parliament, Congress

Jaipur, Mar 8: Right-wing activist Swami Aseemanand was on Wednesday acquitted along with six others in the 2007 Ajmer blast case by Jaipur special court, which convicted three others. Judge Dinesh Gupta let off Swami Aseemanand and six others giving them “benefit of doubt”. Devendra Gupta, Bhavesh Patel and Sunil Joshi were convicted under various sections of IPC, Explosive Substances Act and

Thiruvanathapuram, Mar 8: Kerala government today said it plans to further restrict groundwater use by soft drink major PepsiCo at Palakkad in view of severe drought in the state. "The government will take stern measures to restrict usage of groundwater due to prevailing drought and if possible stop Pepsico from drawing it at its plant at Puthussery in Palakkad by using the power vested with it

Bengaluru, Mar 8: U T Khader, minister for food and civil supplies, has strongly condemned the netizens who posted insulting comments on social networking sites against a Muslim woman for singing a Hindu devotional song. Suhana Sayeed a Muslim woman from Shivamogga district in Karnataka, is the latest victim of cyber bullying by the online ‘moral police’. The 22-year-old contestant of a singing

Moodbidri, Mar 8: The atmosphere was thick with festive fervor. Laden decorations and lights brought out opulence gaiety. Euphoria of the crowd as it whistled and cheered throughout the show. Everything else was forgotten in the excitement of celebrating native soil tradition in a nonnative land. Alva’s Srilankan Day- ‘Sanskruthiya-2017’, organized by Alva’s Education Foundation, on Tuesday, at

New Delhi, Mar 8: The government has made having an Aadhaar card must for poor women to avail of free cooking gas (LPG) connection under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana. While the government in October last year had made the unique identification number mandatory for everyone to get LPG subsidies, it has now extended the same for free cooking gas connections to women of BPL households. The

Mangaluru, Mar 8: The South Western railway has decided to introduce one more train between Mangaluru Central and Bengaluru before the end of this month. The zonal railway on Tuesday informed this to the Karnataka High Court. A division bench of chief Justice Subhro Kamal Mukherjee and Justice R B Budihal recorded the submission to this effect made by N S Sanjay Gowda, the advocate appearing for

Mangaluru, Mar 8: A local court has sentenced a youth to 20 year imprisonment in connection with a violent clash occurred more than three years ago near Syed Madani Dargah in Ullal. S H Pushpanjali Devi, the third additional district and sessions judge, on Monday found Imthiyaz (31), a resident of Ullal, guilty of attempting to murder and assaulting two persons near Dargah in 2013. The case

New Delhi/ Ahmedabad, Mar 8: A soldier from Junagadh in Gujarat has now complained about the poor quality of food served to jawans and has also lashed out at some army officers for their attitude towards low-ranked men in the force. Sindhav Jogidas Lakhubhai, a housekeeper in the Army Medical Corps, aired his grievances through a video on social media about “his task as a buddy (sahayak or batman)