Karnataka

Kasargod, Nov 25: The total death toll of the armed conflicts of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), since its formation in 2004 has touched 5,344, according to a Swedish database. Of this, 3,687 happened during the conflicts between CPI (Maoist) and the state forces. The rest, 1,657 civilians, were killed by the one-sided attack launched by CPI (Maoists), the database showed. CPI (Maoist) was

Kannur, Nov 25: The judicial first class magistrate in Kannur on Thursday awarded three months of imprisonment and Rs 2000 fine to Thalassery MLA A N Shamseer, on the charge of threatening the police in a controversial speech made in 2012. According to police, the case was registered on July 20, 2012, when Shamseer was the district president of the DYFI. The imprisonment has been awarded in a case

Karwar, Nov 25: Preparations for the second phase expansion of the Karwar commercial port are on and soil testing in the sea for this purpose is being carried out. Karwar is one of the few natural all-weather ports in the world. After the commissioning of the INS Kadamba naval base adjacent to the port, development of the port had come to a standstill. According to the officials of the port, the

Udupi, Nov 25: An elderly man was run over by a train near the railway bridge at Senapura village coming under the Gangolli police station limits in Kundapur taluk on Thursday. According to the Gangolli police, Manjunath Devadiga (65), a farm worker, had had drinks and was walking right in the middle of the track, when a train moving from Mumbai to Mangaluru, ran over him at around 11.45 a.m

Bengaluru, Nov 25: Twenty months after the death of IAS officer D.K. Ravi (34) in March 2015, the Central Bureau of Investigation has filed a closure report with the Assistant Commissioner calling it “suicide due to personal reasons”. According to sources, a team of officials, who conducted a probe, filed a 90-page report with Assistant Commissioner D.B. Natesh, who, in turn, would file the same

Mangaluru, Nov 24: The Dakshina Kannada District Congress unit on Thursday staged a protest against the Union government's decision to demonetise Rs. 500 and Rs. 1,000 notes as a part of a state-wide protest planned by the party. Congress workers gathered in front of the district office here on Thursday and shouted slogans against the move, the Union government and Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Belagavi, Nov 24: Opposition parties today staged a walk out in the Legislative Assembly, as government expressed its inability to announce crop loan waiver and crop compensation to farmers reeling under drought in the state. While BJP is demanding crop loan waiver, JD(S) wanted crop compensation of Rs 25,000 per acre for affected farmers. Defending the government, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said

New Delhi, Nov 24: Facing severe attack in the wake of difficulties thrown up by demonetisation, government tonight extended till December 15 the facility of using old Rs 500 notes in public utilities and included more services like mobile recharge but stopped the over-the-counter exchange of defunct currencies and use of Rs 1,000 notes. From now on payment of fees up to Rs 2,000 per student has

Belagavi, Nov 24: The sixth State pay commission would be set up in the 2017-18 budget, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said in the Legislative Council today. Siddaramaiah said during question hour that there was a disparity between central and Karnataka government employees' pay scales. He said the working conditions of central and state governments differ, adding, the state governments cannot

Bengaluru, Nov 24: The high court on Wednesday rejected the bail petitions of five suspects arrested in connection with the II PU question paper leak case. Justice RB Budihal observed that the suspects were members of a crime syndicate, who had a past record of similar offences. The petitioners had drawn attention to the fact that KCOCA provisions had not been invoked against them, thereby