Karnataka

Mangaluru, Jan 10: A man died when the van he was driving collided with a lorry at Padil under the limits of Kankanady police station in Mangaluru on Tuesday. The police gave the name of the deceased as Mohammed Shakeel Sharief (35), a native of Udupi district. The accident occurred near the railway overbridge on NH 66 when the van heading towards the city collided with the oncoming lorry

New Delhi, Jan 10: News reports on Tuesday, 10 January 2017, have stated that Bollywood actors Jackie Shroff and Arjun Rampal have joined the Bharatiya Janata party. ABP News said that Shroff and Rampal will play a crucial role in campaigning in Uttar Pradesh in the run-up to the Assembly elections. Shroff and Rampal are expected to head to Delhi to the BJP headquarters ad meet with the party's

Bengaluru, Jan 10: Revenue Minister Kagodu Thimmappa has said that Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has given his approval for formation of 33 more taluks. The minister told reporters in here on Monday an announcement to carve out new taluks was likely to be made in the next budget. When pointed out that the BJP government had announced the formation of 44 taluks, Kagodu said the BJP just stopped at

New Delhi, Jan 10: The Election Commission has asked the poll machinery in the five poll-bound states to either cover or remove photographs of political leaders on all hoardings and advertisements which seek to project the achievements of any living political functionary or political party. The commission gave these fresh directions by reiterating its instructions issued on December 12, 2004 after

New Delhi, Jan 10: The income tax department said on Tuesday that more than 60 lakh bank accounts saw deposits of over Rs 2 lakhs each since the November scrapping of Rs 500 an Rs 1,000 notes. About Rs 80,000 crore of repayment of loans was done in cash since November 8. And Rs 3-4 lakh crore of evaded income was deposited in banks post that date, an I-T official said. More than Rs 16,000 crore

New Delhi, Jan 10: The Election Commission has issued show cause notice to BJP MP Sakshi Maharaj for his remarks that those who talk of four wives and 40 children are responsible for population problem, saying prima facie he has violated the model code of conduct. He has been given time till tomorrow morning to file his reply as to why no action should be taken against him. The Commission notice

New Delhi, Jan 10: Hours after a BSF jawan deployed in Jammu and Kashmir alleged that troops are served poor quality food, the BSF released a statement accusing the soldier of being an "alcoholic and a habitual offender". Yesterday, in a Facebook post and video, BSF jawan Tej Badur Yadav of the 29 battalion Seema Suraksha Bal - which is posted along the Line of Control - talked at length about

Raipur, Jan 10: Hailing Prime MinisterNarendra Modi for demonetising Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 currency notes, Yoga guru Baba Ramdev today said printing of Rs 2,000 currency notes should also be stopped in future. "The adverse effect of high denomination currency is evident as the fake currency in the denomination of Rs 2,000 notes has arrived (in the market). The bigger value note has the same problem

Bengaluru, Jan 10: The pro-cess of accepting online applications for ration cards for above poverty line (APL) families began on Monday. APL families applying online can download a copy of the document on ahara.kar.nic.in. Except for Aadhaar number, there is no other pre-condition. A hard copy of the card will be sent within 15 days. The fee is Rs 100 per card. The online facility will be extended

New Delhi, Jan 10: The Supreme Court was informed on Monday that a complaint has been filed before a trial court against former Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa for action in land scam cases. Senior advocate Gopal Subramaniam apprised a bench of Justices J Chelameswar and Abhay Manohar Sapre that complaint was submitted before the trial court even though the Governor has denied sanction