Karnataka

New Delhi, Sep 29: India's financial capital Mumbai, home to 45,000 millionaires and 28 billionaires, is the wealthiest city in the country with total wealth of USD 820 billion, says a report. According to New World Wealth, Mumbai is followed by Delhi and Bengaluru at the second and third place respectively. While Delhi, home to 22,000 millionaires and 18 billionaires has total wealth of USD 450

Bengaluru, Sep 29: A new study conducted by a team of the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru concluded that the Rs 13,000-crore Yettinahole diversion project doesn't hold much water to quench the thirst of the parched districts of Kolar, Chikkaballapur, Tumakuru and Bengaluru Rural. Headed by TV Ramachandra and comprising of experts like Barat Aithal and S Vinay, the study team after visiting

Udupi, Sep 29: Demolition of Babri mosque, Gujarat genocide and attack on churches in Mangaluru and other parts of India are glimpses of hate politics, said Prof Alban Rodrigues, administrator of Dandatheeratha Institutions, Kaup. Speaking at the Stop politics of hate' campaign organised by the district unit of the Popular Front of India here on Wednesday, he took on Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Bengaluru, Sep 29: The Investigation Directorate of the Income Tax Department, Bengaluru, seized unaccounted cash worth Rs 43 crore from Vydehi Medical College premises in South-East Bengaluru. The college is a part of the DK Audikesavulu Group. I-T officials said the department launched raids on premises of the Audikesavulu Group on September 23. Raids were also conducted on the group's premises

Hyderabad, Sep 29: Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) presidentAsaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday said that a complete ban on gau rakshaks would show that the Modi government is "genuinely" concerned about the empowerment of the minorities. The Hyderabad parliamentarian was responding to a question posed by media persons at the party headquarters in Darussalaam on the Centre's decision to introduce

Bengaluru, Sep 29: The state government seems to be persisting with the name of Justice S R Nayak for the post of Lokayukta though the Governor had rejected the choice twice. Replying to an RTI application filed by an NGO, the government refused to part with details about the proceedings of the consultation process stating the process is still on. Governor Vajubhai Vala had twice rejected the name

Bengaluru, Sep 29: More than six months after the probe started, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on Wednesday submitted a chargesheet relating to the II PU question paper leak case to the magistrate's court. The 5,000-plus page chargesheet names 18 accused and has statements from more than 300 witnesses. It narrates how prime accused Kumaraswamy aka Kiran and Shivakumaraiah, better

Bengaluru, Sep 29: G Padmavathi of the Congress was on Wednesday elected the city's 50th mayor. A four-time councillor from Prakashnagar ward (No. 98), Padmavathi polled 142 votes in a council of 262 members, to emerge the clear winner in the elections. M Anand of the JD(S), which has allied with the Congress for the elections, also polled the same number of votes to clinch the deputy mayor's post

Mangaluru: Sep 29: The Quality Council of India (QCI), an autonomous body identified by the union ministry of urban development on Wednesday awarded the Swachhata Certificate' to the Mangaluru for being an open defecation-free (ODF) city. With this Mangaluru has officially been recognised as an open defecation-free city. Mangaluru is the third city in the State after Udupi and Mysuru to get this

Udupi, Sep 28: A teenage girl who had recently started working after completing her PUC on Wednesday committed suicide by jumping into Swarna river from K.G. Road bridge on NH 66 at Kallyanpur near here. Police and fire brigade personnel along with the help of local divers searched for the body of Chaitra (18) daughter of Chandrashekar and Jyothi from Puttur in Ambagilu searched till late night