Karnataka

Bengaluru, Feb 7: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah led Karnataka government has embarked on a first-of-its-kind climate change mitigation project that will see indigenous breeds of livestock - cattle and sheep - being protected, and augmented for posterity. The breeds of cattle and sheep chosen for the project have proven to be more adaptive to changes in the environment and climate variations. The

New Delhi, Feb 7: Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi's south Delhi house was broken into late last night, from where the certificate of his Nobel Prize was stolen, among other things. Satyarthi was not in his Alaknanda flat when the robbery took place. He is currently in the US. Satyarthi's original Nobel medallion is kept in Rashtrapati Bhavan since he dedicated his award to the country

New Delhi, Feb 7: Answering criticism over demonetisation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today asserted in Lok Sabha that the timing for the decision was perfect as the economy was doing well and hit out at Congress whose record he questioned with regard to various issues. Replying to a debate on Motion of Thanks on the President's Address which was adopted by the House later amid walkout by

Kalaburgi, Feb 7: Thousands of women staged a daylong protest outside the office of the Deputy Commissioner here on Monday demanding criminal action against hospitals and doctors who performed unwarranted hysterectomies, and compensation to the victims. Nearly 2,200 women belonging to the Lambani and dalit communities lost their uteruses to doctors, who carried out the operations to inflate bills

Udupi, Feb 7: A homemaker succumbed to burn injuries she suffered while lighting a kerosene pump stove at the kitchen room on Sunday. The victim has been identified as Mamatha alias Chaitanya (23), a resident of Hiriyadka in Udupi district. According to the police, Mamatha was lighting the kerosene pump stove in her house to cook dinner, when due to negligence, her sari caught fire. When she

Shivamogga, Feb 7: The anti-hijab agitation launched a few days ago by the Sangh Parivar backed students at the Sahyadri Science College in Shivamogga has now spread to the other colleges of the city. A group of students of a government first grade college at Bapuji Nagar in the city reportedly attacked a saffron shawl clad student after he allegedly insulted burqa clad Muslim girls. It is learnt

Bengaluru, Feb 7: Home minister G Parameshwara on Monday warned educational institutions of sheltering overstaying foreign students. The government, he said, will hold the college responsible if students overstay or indulge in illegal activities. Parameshwara was speaking at the inauguration of a two-day training programme on, 'Gender sensitive, best practices, implementation and capacity building

Bengaluru,?Feb 7: A Bill to pave way for Kambala, the traditional buffalo race held in the coastal districts of Karnataka, will be tabled in the Legislative Assembly in two days, Law Minister T?B?Jayachandra said on Monday. Speaking to reporters in Bengaluru, Jayachandra said the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act (PCA), 1960, will be amended to include Kambala and bullock cart race as

New Delhi, Feb 7: The principal bench of the National Green Tribunal will pronounce its final verdict on the Yettinahole drinking water project, coming up in Sakleshpur taluk of Hassan district, on Tuesday. Taking note of the Karnataka government's appeal that the project was being implemented for providing drinking water in parched areas, the bench, headed by Justice Swatanter Kumar, said the

Bengaluru, Feb 6: Apparently conveying its dismay over allocations towards Centrally sponsored schemes for the state, the Siddaramaiah government today claimed credit for ensuring their continuity with smooth implementation despite many structural changes in them. "Of late, there have been many changes in the structure of centrally sponsored schemes involving allocation to the state, sharing