Karnataka

Bengaluru, Feb 25: Karnataka BJP chief B?S?Yeddyurappa has demanded that Chief Minister Siddaramaiah step down and recommend dissolution of the Assembly claiming that his statements that the state Congress leaders provided payoffs to the party high command were already “proven”. “Siddaramaiah had stated that he will resign and retire from politics if my charges were proven. The contents of the

Bengaluru, Feb 25: The mystery surrounding the murder of Prabha Shetty, a software engineer from Bantwal stabbed to death in Sydney in March 2015, has deepened, with Australian investigators revealing a suspicious transfer of funds to a woman’s account in Sri Lanka from the victim’s compensation amount. The murder is being investigated by special detective squad, Strike Force Marcoala of New South

Mangaluru, Feb 24: Prohibitory orders have been clamped in the coastal city to thwart the hartal bid by Sangh Parivar during Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s Mangaluru visit on Saturday. City police commissioner M Chandra Sekhar, who is also the additional district magistrate, has promulgated prohibitory orders under Section 144 or CrPC from 6 p.m. on February 24 to 6 a.m. on February 26

Mangaluru, Feb 24: In the wake of arson attack against the office of Communist Party of India (Marxist) at Thokkottu in Mangaluru taluk and hartal call by saffron outfits against Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s city visit on February 25, B Ramanath Rai, Dakshina Kannada district in-charge minister has urged the district administration and police department to be ruthless towards those who

Washington, Feb 24: India's demonetisation led to huge cash shortages that have "adversely affected" consumption and like a "vacuum cleaner" it sucked in cash and then was slowly replacing the currency, a senior IMF official has said. "You've heard about so-called 'helicopter drops' of money with unconventional monetary policies, so one way to characterise this demonetisation initiative is as a

Mangaluru, Feb 24: Holding saffron flags around one thousand people took to the streets in Manglauru on Friday endorsing the protest call given by Sangh Parivar to oppose the city visit of Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, who is supposed to address a communal harmony rally organized by the Left parties at Nehru Maidan, here, on Saturday. Today’s protest rally from Dr B R Ambedkar Circle to

Bengaluru, Feb 24: Less than a year ago, income tax sleuths conducted a series of raids across Karnataka on politicians who had not filed their I-T returns or those who they suspected had black money. The officers were in for a surprise when they discovered a diary with suspicious entries at the residence of Karnataka Congress MLC Govindaraj. The influential legislator, known to be close to top

Riyadh, Feb 24: Seventeen years after first setting foot in Saudi Arabia, Dominic Steck shipped his two cats and returned to Germany with his wife and school-age children, who hardly know their homeland. As Saudi Arabia steps up efforts to employ more of its own people, and with economic growth slowing, the ranks of well-paid white-collar expatriates like Steck are thinning. For them, the good

Mangaluru, Feb 24: A senior police officer has opined that availability of plenty of pocket money is one of the reasons for increase in drug abuse among college students in places like Mangaluru. Inaugurating a conclave convened at Yenepoya University, here to discuss the rising trend of drug abuse among students, Bhushan Gulabrao Borase, superintendent of police, Dakshina Kannada, said that

Mysuru/Bengaluru, Feb 24: The project to move Tipu Sultan’s armoury has crossed a critical phase. The armoury is being moved 100 metres to make way for a railway track. The spectacular engineering effort is the first such in India. The armoury, at his capital of Srirangapatna near Mysuru, weighs about 1,000 tonnes, and was raised a foot on Day 1. The actual shifting begins on March 3, with the