Bengaluru, Dec 5: Senior Congress leader S M Krishna on Sunday described as disgusting the huge amount of unaccounted for money seized from two senior engineers during an I-T raid and called for severe punishment against them. “Mere suspension is not enough for such corrupt officials. Severe punishment should be given to them,” he told reporters, who sought his reaction to the huge amount of
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Bengaluru, Dec 5: The CBI, Bengaluru, has registered an FIR (RC 23(a)/2016/CBI/acb/blr) in connection with the seizure of a huge stack of Rs 2,000 currency notes from two government officials and two contractors. Sources said the copy of the FIR was submitted to the jurisdictional Special CBI court in the city on Saturday. The Income Tax officials had seized Rs 5.7 crore cash in Rs 2
New Delhi, Dec 5: The government said on Sunday that it had rejected a declaration of Rs 2 lakh crore made under the Income Disclosure Scheme (IDS) by four members of a Mumbai family as it was found to be "suspicious" and was made by persons with "very small means". Abdul Razzaque Mohammed Sayed, Mohammed Aarif Abdul Razzaque Sayed, Rukhsana Abdul Razzaque Sayed and Noorjahan Mohammed Sayed claim
New Delhi, Dec 5: Students of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) securing at least a cumulative grade point average (CGPA) of 8.5 in BTech will get direct admission to PhD programmes. Such students will be entitled for a fellowship of Rs 60,000 per month for a period of five years at the premier technical institutes from next year. Besides, they will also get "a suitable research grant"
Udupi, Dec 4: Five youths were arrested on the charge of assaulting two KSRTC drivers and a conductor at Padubidri in Udupi on Saturday. However, they were later released on conditional bail. According to Padubidri police, the bus from Bengaluru to Bhatkal tried to overtake nine youths, who were on four motorcycles near Mukka. The group did not allow the bus to overtake, but finally, the bus
Bengaluru, Dec 4: Karnataka Health and Family Welfare Minister K R Ramesh Kumar was admitted to a government hospital here today following complains of dehydration and loose motion. "The honourable Minister Ramesh Kumar has been admitted. He came to our hospital following loose motion and dehydration in the morning after attending the assembly winter session at Belagavi," Bowring Hospital Medical
Belagavi, Dec 4: A House committee which probed the irregularities in the implementation of the Bangalore-Mysore Infrastructure Corridor project has found that the promoters of the project diverted 756.33 acres for real estate purposes. The 11-member committee, headed by Law Minister T?B?Jayachandra, tabled its 392-page report in the Legislative Assembly on Friday. The report states that the
New Delhi, Dec 4: The big surge in deposits into Jan Dhan accounts after the demonetisation seems to be stabilising now as just Rs 1,487 crore has been parked in them over 7 days to November 30, as against Rs 8,283 crore in the previous week. Deposits in the 25.85 crore such accounts totalled Rs 74,321.55 crore at the end of November 30, as per the Finance Ministry data. The overall amount was Rs
Lucknow, Dec 4: A student of IIT-Kanpur who hails from Delhi has received a job offer of nearly Rs 1.5 crore per annum from Microsoft. This is the highest ever salary offer to a student of IIT-K, sources at the premier institute said. The student has been offered a position at Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond. Sources said he will design a software, implement it and fix the bugs. He will get
Bengaluru, Dec 4: As many as 40 school children had a narrow escape when a Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation bus carrying them to Srirangapatna caught fire near Mudigere near Channapattana on Saturday. Around 300 children belonging to BEL school in Jalahalli were on their way to Srirangapatna in six buses for an educational trip. The driver of one of the buses noticed smoke and stopped