Karnataka

Bengaluru, Dec 5: A day after a woman lawyer was robbed of Rs 8 lakh while travelling in an auto-rickshaw in the city, two police constables were arrested on charge of dacoity. The arrested constables have been identified as Raghav Kumar and Mayura attached to Girinagara police station in Bengaluru. Both of them were suspended after the arrest. In her complaint, advocate Sukanya said that the two

Bengaluru, Dec 5: In the wake of tense situation in Tamil Nadu over CM Jayalalithaa's critical health, Karnataka State Road Transport has stopped all 470 bus services between the two states from Monday morning. Officials in the corporation said they will wait and watch the law and order situation on the border and for a green signal from the police to send their buses to Tamil Nadu. The services

New Delhi, Dec 5: Hit hard by cash shortage, services sector contracted in November -- that too at sharpest rate in three years -- as new orders fell for the first time since June 2015 though subdued inflationary pressure opened up room for RBI to lower rates, a monthly survey showed today. The Nikkei India Services Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI), which tracks services sector companies on a

New York, Dec 5: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has won the online reader's poll for TIME Person of the Year 2016, beating out other world leaders like US President-elect Donald Trump, incumbent US leader Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Modi won with 18 per cent of the vote when the poll closed last night, getting significantly more votes than his closest contenders, including

Bengaluru, Dec 5: Siddharth Pandiya, a student of Grade 12 at Greenwood High International School, Bangalore, has developed the world's first live debating platform which allows debaters from around the globe to engage in an intellectual discussion of relevant topics. Siddharth, an avid debater and a Model UN participant, took the reins to start the initiative called Debate for Change, the first

Udupi, Dec 5: Pejawar Mutt pontiff Vishwesha Tirtha Swami has urged the government to completely handover the controversial Datta Peetha to the Hindu community (Sangh Parivar) as soon as possible. He was speaking after launching the Dattamala Abhiyan organised by the Mangaluru regional unit of the Bajrang Dal here on Sunday. Activists of the Bajrang Dal would be leaving for Chikkamagaluru, where

Mangaluru, Dec 5: The Konkani Sangha on the occasion of celebrating its 20 years, organised a national level cultural fest,SangathSuvalo' at the Eric Mathias Hall in St Aloysius College, here. Rev Fr Henry D'Souza, Bishop of Bellary Diocese and Chairman CBCI and CCDI Youth Commission inaugurated the program; Mr Roy Castelino, the President of the Karnataka Konkani Sahithya Academy was the Guest of

Udupi, Dec 5: Udupi town police have solved a murder case by arresting the room-mate of the victim. The arrested has been identified as Biswajit Rai, a construction worker. Biswajit Rai and his co-worker Niren Raibir, both from West Bengal, were staying in a room in the workers colony at Vasundhara Nagar, here. According to police, there was a fight between the two workers over bringing rice at 8

Kasargod, Dec 5: A major fire that broke out in a leading private sawmill at the Chettumkuzhi locality, near here, destroyed wooden items worth around Rs.20 lakh as fire and a rescue services personnel fought for nearly seven hours to contain the flames. The fire at Ajmeer wood mill, run by Salim on the Vidyanagar-Seethangoli route at Chettumkuzhi, was noticed around 2 a.m. on Sunday. Three units

Bengaluru, Dec 5: The BJP high command on Sunday warned party leader K S Eshwarappa and others of disciplinary action if they continued to be associated with Rayanna Brigade, an apolitical forum to organise backward classes and Dalits. BJP national general secretary in charge of Karnataka P Muralidhar Rao told reporters that the party will neither support nor tolerate organisational activities