Karnataka

Bengaluru, Jul 29: Flag bearers of the recent bus strike that brought the government to its knees were in for a rude shock on Thursday when the BMTC and KSRTC administration handed them their termination letters as they came to resume work. As they reached their respective offices, 55 employees who actively took part in the strike were given termination letters and asked to pack their bags and

Bengaluru, Jul 29: The state BJP?on Thursday said that Prime Minister cannot intervene in an inter-state water dispute unless the riparian states come to a consensus and agree to sit across the table to resolve the dispute. The BJP's defensive stand come at a time when there is a feeling among the agitating people of North Karnataka that the state would have got its due share of the Mahadayi

New Delhi, Jul 29: Normal banking operations may take a hit on Friday as public sector bank employees will go on strike to protest against the proposed merger of associate banks with SBI and banking reforms announced by the government. The United Forum of Banks Unions (UFBU), an umbrella organisation of nine bank employees and officers unions representing 8 lakh staffers, will go ahead with the

Bengaluru, Jul 29: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah reached Belgium late on Thursday to be with his son Rakesh, who is undergoing treatment at the Antwerp University Hospital . According to the chief minister's office, Rakesh, who is suffering from acute pancreatitis, is stable and responding to treatment. Siddaramaiah's wife Parvathi will reach Belgium on Friday, officials in the CMO said. The chief

Lucknow, July 28: In a shocking incident, a Dalit couple was on Thursday hacked to death in Uttar Pradesh's Mainpuri district for allegedly being unable to pay back a paltry sum of Rs 15. Mainpuri is Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh's Lok Sabha constituency and around 300 km from the State capital. The Dalit couple, Bharat Singh (65) and his wife Mamta (60), were brutally attacked with an axe

New Delhi, Jul 28:Navjot Singh Sidhu, who quit the Rajya Sabha earlier this month and fired uninterrupted salvos at the BJP for asking him to remain away from Punjab, is likely to join Aam Aadmi Party in the second week of August. The 52-year-old former cricketer, who had a long innings with the BJP in Punjab, has alleged that the party had asked him to stay away from Punjab to serve "personal

Kannur, Jul 28: Several major international and domestic airlines have expressed their willingness to operate services to the Kannur Greenfield International Airport coming up at Mattannur, here. This was communicated by representatives of these airlines at a meeting convened by the Kannur International Airport Limited (KIAL) here on Wednesday. The 15 airlines that have come forward are: Air India

Kolkata, July 28: Eminent litterateur and social activist Mahasweta Devi has passed away. The Jnanpith, Padma Vibhushan and Magsaysay awardee died on Thursday at a Kolkata hospital following prolonged illness. She was 90. Devi had been suffering from old age-related illness, kidney and lung problems besides bacteraemia, a bacterial infection in the blood. The Ramon Magsaysay winner is survived by

Bengaluru, Jul 28: Protests intensified today in several parts of north Karnataka against the Mahadayi Water Dispute Tribunal's interim order rejecting Karnataka's petition seeking 7.56 tmcft for drinking water projects. Tension gripped most parts of northern Karnataka like Gadag, Hubballi, Dharwad, Haveri, Belagavi where police have made tight security arrangements to prevent any untoward

Chikkamagaluru, Jul 28: The members of a Dalit family in Koppa taluk of Chikkamagaluru district, who were attacked by Bajrang Dal activists for slaughtering cow and eating beef, have revealed that they were also members of a hard-line Hindutva outfit. Gurumurthy, one among the five Dalits attacked on July 10 in Shantipura colony, was in fact one of the founders of Hindu Jagarana Vedike's branch in