Karnataka

Bengaluru, Sep 13: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said the state would abide by the Supreme Court order on Cauvery water, which described it as hard to implement'. The Supreme Court order had done injustice to Karnataka, he said while addressing media after an emergency meeting of ministers. Siddaramaiah said the state was facing a very difficult situation. "The inability to implement the

Bengaluru, Sep 13: The city police have arrested over 300 persons in connection with Monday's violence following Supreme Court's order to the state to release water to Tamil Nadu. The hunt is on to arrest those who have incited violence, said Home Minister G. Parameshwara. Appealing the people and organisations against taking law to their hands, he cautioned miscreants of stringent action. “The

Bengaluru, Sep 13: Curfew in 16 sensitive police station limits, increased precautionary action and more effective policing has seen Bengaluru remain peaceful up to noon on Tuesday, a day after tens of vehicles were torched, properties destroyed and one person lost his life after the security agencies had opened fire. Notwithstanding the impending tension over Cauvery dispute, the muslim community

Hospet, Sep 13: A newborn baby girl was saved from being cremated alive in Hospet in Bellary district, after an auto-driver - Ramesh - heard her cry in the bag in which she was being taken to the cemetery. The man who had hired the auto - the girl's uncle - had said she was dead. Ramesh stopped his auto after hearing the baby, and asked her uncle for an explanation. Then he, another auto-driver he

Bengaluru, Sep 13: An uneasy calm prevailed in the city this morning after outbreak of violence over the issue of sharing Cauvery River water with Tamil Nadu, as the Siddaramaiah government warned of "stringent" action against vandalism or attempts to disturb peace. As the city police bolstered by central forces kept a tight vigil, particularly in areas inhabited by Tamils and other "sensitive"

Manipal, Sep 13: Expressing concern over the decreasing credibility of journalists in India, veteran journalist Rajdeep Sardesai lamented that media persons have become polarized and divided into camps. Delivering the second Dr M V Kamath Endowment Lecture on the topic Media as an Agent of Change in Society,' he said once upon a time, journalists were inclined to the world of ideas and letters

New Delhi, Sep 13: In what is seen as an unusual step, the government has issued a gazette notification putting Islamic preacher Zakir Naik's NGO Islamic Research Foundation (IRF) in the prior permission list for receiving funds from abroad. The decision to issue a gazzette notification was taken after the Ministry of Home Affairs claimed that the IRF had violated provisions of Foreign

washington, Sep 13: US President Barack Obama will veto the bill passed by the Republican-majority House of Representatives that, if passed, would allow victims of the 9/11 attacks and their relatives to sue foreign governments suspected of backing terrorism against America, the White House has said. The Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act was approved unanimously in the House last week

Mangaluru, Sep 13: In a move to protect the interests of consumers who order products online, the department of consumer affairs is in the process of streamlining the entire customer grievances redressal set up, said UT Khader, minister for food, civil supplies and consumer affairs. Speaking to media persons in the city, the minister said that many online consumers feel cheated with either the

Mangaluru, Sep 13: Amidst reports that the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee was gearing up to build a case against him for alleged anti-party activities, former union minister B Janardhana Poojary said that he was waiting for the “notice” to be issued, so as to give a “proper” reply. Karnataka Congress in-charge Digvijaya Singh had recently hinted that action would be taken against Mr Poojary