Karnataka

Bengaluru, Jan 21: Here is good news for people planning to buy a flat. The Centre on Friday said all ongoing projects that remain incomplete by the end of April 2017, will come under the Real Estate (Regulation & Development) Act. The new rule is likely to benefit flat buyers as a delay would extend them all benefits under the Act. At the same time, it will exert pressure on the realty sector to

New Delhi, Jan 20: The government has barred cooperative banks from accepting deposits under the new tax amnesty scheme PMGKY, a move that comes amidst the Income Tax department uncovering anomalies post demonetisation. After junking old 500 and 1,000 rupee notes, the Centre had come up with an amnesty scheme for holders of unaccounted cash by asking them to pay 50 per cent tax and parking one

Bhatkal, Jan 20: A Kannadiga expatriate working with a courier company in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been lying comatose in the Prince Mohammed bin Abdulaziz Hospital, Riyadh for nine months following a road accident, even as his family's efforts to bring him back to India have been stymied by the bill for treatment of about 5 lakh Saudi riyals. Makde Abubakar, 40, from Shirur, near Bhatkal in

Pune, Jan 20: Furious over a social media post, a techie in Pune allegedly strangled his wife and then hung himself at their home on Tuesday. Rakesh Gangurde, 34, left a suicide note in which he reportedly said he was upset with his wife Sonali for sharing too much about their lives on social media. Rakesh and 28-year-old Sonali had been married for four years and didn't have children. They

Hubballi, Jan 20: Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly Jagadish Shettar on Thursday charged that the government was purposely trying to keep the post of the Lokayukta vacant. He told mediapersons here that the government did not want to appoint anybody to the post. As the post of Lokayukta is vacant for the past one year, many complaints have not been attended to. The chief minister is not in

New Delhi, Jan 20: Routes connecting six airports in Karnataka, including four unserved ones, will go under the hammer as part of the Centre'sUDAN' scheme to connect regional destinations by air. Operators have bid for starting services from Bengaluru, Bengaluru HAL, Bidar, Hubballi, Mysuru and Vidyanagar (Ballari district) airports to unserved or under-served airports as per the Regional

Bengaluru, Jan 20: Private hospitals continue to turn down patients under public healthcare schemes, saying they have not received a “satisfactory” response from the state government on when their dues will be paid. Patients seeking to undergo elective surgeries under Vajpayee Arogyashree, Rajiv Arogya Bhagya and Jyothi Sanjeevini healthcare schemes are suffering. Private hospitals have put up

Sirsi, Jan 20: The first additional district court on Thursday granted anticipatory bail to Uttara Kannada MP Anant Kumar Hegde. Hegde was arrested for assaulting the doctors and staff of TSS Hospital on January 2, over the delay in attending to the MP's mother, who was ill. Advocate G V Naik appeared on behalf of Hegde. Based on the statements of the doctors and on the CCTV footage, the police

Bengaluru, Jan 20: The Kudur police have registered a case against Magadi MLA Balakrishna for allegedly barging into the police station with his supporters, threatening and bad-mouthing police officers, on Wednesday. The MLA and 16 others have been named in the FIR. According to police, the MLA and his supporters came to the station at around 11.30 am and threatened Magadi circle inspector Nandish

Bengaluru, Jan 20: BJP?state president B?S Yeddyurappa, who is facing rebellion in the party, could not have asked for more on Thursday. A dozen disgruntled leaders dared him by keeping off from the meeting he had called to sort out the differences. As many as 12 of the 24 BJP leaders who purportedly signed a letter addressed to Yeddyurappa questioning his style of functioning had been invited to