Karnataka

New Delhi, Dec 29: Government has made holding of more than 10 junked Rs 500/1000 notes a penal offence punishable with a minimum Rs 10,000 fine, but the harsher four-year jail term has been dropped. The Specified Bank Notes Cessation of Liabilities Ordinance, approved yesterday by the Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, allows individuals to hold no more than 10 notes of the old

Mangaluru, Dec 29: Promising opener Rishab GM's red-hot bat powered coastaldigest.com XI into Friday's Mangalore Premier League - 2016 Twenty20 final match as the men in blue breezed past President Sixers Kundapura by 54 runs at Dr B R Ambedkar Stadium in Panambur, here on Thursday. With this, the PSK that had directly entered into the semi-finals after finishing top of their pool despite being

Bengaluru, Dec 29: Even though the sharp fall in the price of vegetables is a good news for common man, farmers and traders are distressed by the unexpected upheavals. On the other hand shortage of cash, a consequence of demonetisation, has had an adverse impact on vegetable business. The wholesale price of a few vegetables has declined by 50%. The president of vegetable merchants' association, RV

Bengaluru, Dec 29: More than a decade after he was expelled from the Janata Dal (Secular), Congress leader and Karnataka State Planning Commission vice-chairman C M Ibrahim is reportedly making preparations to return to the former prime minister H D Deve Gowda led party. Mr Ibrahim, who has a history of party hopping, has been constantly criticising chief minister Siddaramaiah since last year and

Chennai, Dec 29: Expressing doubts over the circumstances leading to death of former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, a Madras High Court judge indicated that he may order exhumation of the body after a plea before the court sought a probe by an inquiry commission or a fact-finding committee. Justice S Vaidyanathan, who was heading a two-judge vacation bench, said the public should know what has

Bengaluru, Dec 29: A cashier with a nationalized bank allegedly committed suicide at his residence in Viveknagar, east Bengaluru, on Wednesday. Raviraj N Govindaswamy, an employee of the State Bank of Mysore, KR Road, left behind no suicide note, police said. Quoting family members, they said Raviraj was upset over unsubstantiated reports in local TV channels that he was under the scanner for

Bengaluru, Dec 29: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has questioned the source ofcrores of rupees' spent by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the Lok Sabha election. Taking a swipe at Modi for failing to bring back black money and for implementing demonetisation, Siddaramaiah termed the Modi government the most corrupt one. “Demonetisation is a big failure. More than 100 people have died trying to

Bagalkot, Dec 29: A 24-year-old man suffered burn injuries on his right thigh after the battery of his mobile phone exploded at Gaddanakeri in the taluk on Wednesday morning. The victim, Siddappa Anagawadi, is undergoing treatment at the district hospital here. Anagawadi had kept his Samsung Core Prime phone in the pocket of his trousers when it burst all of a sudden. The battery had 52% charge at

Bengaluru, Dec 29: After demonetisation, two co-operative banks carried out 2,000 high-value transactions without bringing them to the notice of the income tax authorities. Speaking to reporters in Bengaluru on Wednesday, R Ravichandran, Director of Income Tax (Intelligence and Criminal Investigation), said the money transacted added up to Rs 1,600 crore. Since April this year, inspection of

Mangaluru, Dec 28: Two days after Spark Avengers Bolar gave coastaldigest.com XI a bloody nose in their fifth league clash, the latter returned to form on Wednesday and eliminated Karkala Gladiators in a one-sided match to storm into the semi-final of the prestigious Mangalore Premiere League 2016. Winning the toss, young skipper Ritesh Bhatkal-led coastaldigest.com XI opted for batting and posted