Karnataka

Bengaluru, Jun 17: State ministers and officers going abroad without the Centre's clearance has become a serious point of contention. Chief Secretary Arvind Jadhav, on the direction of the Centre, has issued a circular mandating ministers and officers to obtain financial clearances from the Union finance ministry and Department of Economic Affairs (DEA), before they set out on foreign trips. The

Mangaluru, Jun 17: A four-year-old girl died after she was hit by her school van near Charmadi in Belthangady taluk on Thursday. The victim has been identified as Fatima Tauhida (4), daughter of Hamad Kunhi residing at Shivabettu Road house at Charmadi. She was an LKG student of an English medium school in Kakkinje. The tragedy occurred at 4.50 p.m., after the girl was dropped by the school van

New Delhi, Jun 17: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday set in motion the exercise for a Cabinet reshuffle by discussing a list of names for induction with the Congress top brass. The names of the probable ministers and those likely to be dropped are expected to be finalised on Friday, when Siddaramaiah meets Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Digvijaya Singh, AICC?general secretary incharge

Bengaluru, Jun 17: The JD(S) has reiterated its demand for a CBI inquiry into the entire Rajya Sabha election process in the state. JD(S) spokesperson Ramesh Babu has urged the Election Commission of India (ECI) through the office of the Returning Officer for Rajya Sabha polls, to include the complaint of cross-voting by eight JD(S) MLAs in the CBI probe. The ECI had recommended a CBI probe into

Bengaluru, Jun 17: Activist T J Abraham, who had filed a complaint with the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) in the Hublot wrist watch case, has approached the Governor seeking sanction to prosecute Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Public Works Minister H C Mahadevappa. On May 13, 2016 Abraham had complained to the ACB that L Raghu, Executive Engineer, Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) had gifted a

Manipal, Jun 17: Vinod Anthony Thomas (in pic) has done Faculty of Architecture (FOA) and Manipal University proud by clinching the second prize at an all-India competition organised by Research Designs and Standards Organisation, Lucknow. In keeping with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's clean India initiative, the Railways decided to hold a public competition for waterless and odourless toilets in

New Delhi, Jun 17: A fresh controversy erupted in the Ishrat Jehan case on Thursday. It is claimed that a senior Ministry of Home Affairs official, probing the missing files on Ishrat, had tutored a key witness about the questions likely to be asked. While Home secretary Rajiv Mehrishi "hotly denied" the incident, the Congress seized the opportunity to target the NDA government and demanded that

Mangaluru, Jun 16: Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) will undertake a special drive for renewal of trade license in a bid to increase its revenue. Out of 29,100 licensed traders in the city, 19,561 have renewed their trade license. The city corporation has cancelled license of 740 traders, who failed to renew the license. However, 8,799 traders in the city are yet to renew their trade license

Bengaluru, Jun 16: US-based online taxi-booking app Uber has questioned Karnataka government's new regulations for ride-hailing apps, terming them as "regressive" and "practically impossible to comply". It had written a letter to state Transport Minister Ramalinga Reddy, saying a few mandatory clauses like keeping a fleet of a minimum of 100 taxis, generating printed receipts and capping of

New Delhi, Jun 16: The FCRA licence of an NGO run by activist Teesta Setalvad was today cancelled by the government for alleged violation of various provisions of law. In an order, the Home Ministry said during inspections, various irregularities were found in Sabrang Trust, where Teesta and her spouse Javed Anand work as chief functionary or trustee, and after careful examination of the NGO's