Karnataka

Bengaluru, Jan 13: Filing income tax returns is often a taxing, cumbersome process for both the salaried classes and businessmen unless a chartered accountant does the job for a price. Now, how about completing the entire process in a jiffy by just scanning the Form-16 or other relevant documents? Doing exactly this is a Bengaluru-based startup, ClearTax that has simplified the entire process

Bengaluru, Jan 13: The KSRTC, which registered a profit of Rs 114.95 crore in 2015-16, has prepared a roadmap to increase passenger convenience despite an expected slump in revenue due to demonetisation and hike in diesel price. Transport Minister Ramalinga Reddy told journalists here on Thursday that the annual revenue of the corporation will take a hit due to demonetisation and diesel price hike

Bengaluru, Jan 13: Almost the entire state is likely to be declared drought-hit with 160 taluks of the total 176 taluks facing severe water shortage. During the kharif season in 2016, the state government declared 139 taluks as drought-hit and sought Rs 4,702 crore funds from the Centre for drought relief works. During the rabi season, the list has gone up to 160 taluks. With 25 of the 30

Bengaluru, Jan 13: The rift between BJP?leaders B?S?Yeddyurappa and K?S?Eshwarappa reached a flashpoint on Thursday with the former chief minister warning that decisive action will be taken against those associating themselves with?the Sangolli Rayanna Brigade. Yeddyurappa also ensured that Eshwarappa was kept out of a meeting of party MLCs convened apparently to discuss preparations for the

Bengaluru, Jan 12: Pulmonary and heart diseases claimed 46,811 lives in Karnataka in 2014, the latest year for which statistics on various causes of deaths in the country have been compiled by the Medical Certification of Cause of Death (MCCD), a registry under the Union home ministry. The total number of medically certified deaths recorded in Karnataka in 2014 were 1,46,286, of which diseases of

Mangaluru, Jan 12: A swift car belonging to a Congress leader was attacked and damaged by unidentified miscreants at Ullal Melangady in Mangaluru taluk in the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday. Farooq Ullal, spokesperson of Dakshina Kannada District Congress Committee and member of Ullal City Municipal Council had parked his Swift car outside his home last night. When he came out of home

Patna, Jan 12: A CISF jawan allegedly opened fire on his colleagues, killing four of them at their unit at a thermal power station in Aurangabad district of Bihar today. Officials said the incident was reported at about 12:30 AM at the Nabinagar Power Generation Company Ltd (NPGCL) unit in the said district where the force is deployed for security duties to guard the facility. The accused jawan

Khargone, Jan 12: Days after a farmer in Madhya Pradesh received Rs 2,000 notes from a bank without the image of Mahatma Gandhi, an ATM at a village in Khargone district dispensed two 'one-side blank' currency of the new Rs 500 denomination. Hemant Soni on Tuesday night used his card to withdraw Rs 1,500 from a public sector bank's ATM at Segaon village, about 40 kms from Khargone district

New Delhi, Jan 12: Popular French DJ David Guetta's concert which was originally scheduled to take place tonight in Bengaluru has been cancelled. Reportedly, the show has been scrapped post the December 31st mass molestation fallout in the city. According to news agency, the organisers have cited law and order issues. "Due to the present law & order situation in Bengaluru following the events that

Varanasi, Jan 12: A 24-year-old woman travelling in a SpiceJet plane from Mumbai to Varanasi died on Wednesday after she fell ill onboard, with her husband alleging negligence on the part of the flight attendants. Sangeeta, a resident of Shivpur area in Varanasi, boarded the plane from Mumbai this morning along with her husband Rajesh and their daughter, Phoolpur SHO Brijesh Mishra said. The