Karnataka

Bengaluru, Jan 17: Union Minister for Statistics and Programme Implementation D V Sadananda Gowda on Monday said the tussle between BJP leaders B S Yeddyurappa and K S Eshwarappa has caused embarrassment to party workers. “It (the tussle) has caused embarrassment to workers and the leaders. The two senior leaders are discussing internal party matters out in the open,” he told reporters who asked

Bengaluru, Jan 17: Revenue Minister Kagodu Thimmappa has said that the government should take back its encroached land, irrespective of the encroachers. In an interaction with reporters on Monday, the minister said the government should forcibly take back the land which has been encroached upon. “When proper land records are not available, how one can one get pahani and complete mutation process?”

Bengaluru, Jan 17: Governor Vajubhai Vala is learnt to have directed the state government to reconsider the name of Justice P?Vishwanath Shetty for the post of Lokayukta following complaints that he had purchased land in violation of rules. According to sources in the state secretariat, Vala has also written to the government pointing out that there were procedural lapses while recommending the

Mangaluru, Jan 17: Jet Airways on Monday started its daily direct flight service between Mangaluru and Delhi. With this, a passenger from this coastal city can reach national capital in just 2 hours 50 minutes. With no direct flight to Delhi for a long time people from Mangaluru had to depend either on connecting flights via Bengaluru or Mumbai to reach Delhi with their journey taking up to 10

Mangaluru, Jan 16: An African was arrested by the City Crime Branch (CCB) of Mangaluru City Police on Monday for possession of a huge quantity of banned drugs. They also recovered cocaine worth Rs 5.5 lakh from him. Based on a tip-off that the Ghana national who had come to the coastal city via Goa was scouting for prospective customers from the drug here, the CCB personnel headed by PSI Shyam

Bengaluru, Jan 16: The Karnataka government and the Railways Ministry today signed a memorandum of understanding in what is seen as a step towards realising the city's long standing demand for a suburban railway system to address its notorious traffic congestion. The MoU for the development of suburban railway system in Bengaluru was released by Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu and Chief Minister

New Delhi, Jan 16: Starting tomorrow, you can pull out 10,000 per day from an ATM, though a weekly limit of 24,000 per bank account remains unchanged. The RBI has increased the daily limit for ATM withdrawals from Rs. 4,500 which has been in place for a few weeks now. From current accounts, the amount that can be collected each week has been doubled to a lakh. Limits of access to cash were

Mangaluru, Jan 16: An elderly man and a three month old baby lost their lives while six of their family members sustained injuries in a ghastly road mishap at Ukkuda check post near Vttla in Bantwal taluk on Monday. The victims have been identified as Sulaiman Haji (62), hailing from Badiyaru near Kadumbu and his grandson Shehzan (3 months). It is learnt that Sulaiman Haji was an NRI and he had

Bengaluru, Jan 16: A Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) jawan today allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself with his service rifle at the Kempegowda International Airport here. CISF constable Suresh Gaikwad (28), a native of Maharashtra, committed suicide by shooting himself with his service rifle at 9 AM, DCP North East, Dr P S Harsha told PTI here. Harsha said family dispute was

Mangaluru, Jan 16: Department of pediatric hematology and oncology, led by Dr. Harsha Prasada L, KMC Hospital in association with National institute of Immunohematology , Mumbai and Imagine Institute, Human genetics of infectious disease team at Paris, France have diagnosed that tuberculosis can also be caused among children due to gene defect. Recently KMC Hospital witnessed two rare cases of 2