Karnataka

Bengaluru, Mar 3: The Catholic bishops of India on Wednesday said the Union government, driven by fundamentalist ideology, had weakened the secular fabric of society. Presenting the biennial report at the 32nd general body meeting of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India (CBCI), Archbishop Albert D'Souza, secretary-general, CBCI, said certain factions posed a threat to the religious minorities

Bengaluru, Mar 3: The High Court on Wednesday held that Kambala could be held subject to conditions mentioned in the notification issued by the State government on December 17, 2015. A division bench comprising Chief Justice S K Mukherjee and Justice Ravi Malimath said Kambala organisers have to strictly follow conditions on safety measures. The bench also allowed an impleading application filed

Bengaluru, Mar 3: The State government is all set to launch the Mukhyamantri Santwana Yojana, that will provide free relief to accident victims, on March 8, Minister for Health and Family Welfare U?T?Khader said here on Wednesday Speaking at an event organised by the Federation of Karnataka Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FKCCI), Khader said that the State government will provide Rs 25,000

Bengaluru, Mar 3: At a time when Chief Minister Siddaramaiah is trying to wriggle out of the watch controversy, the Opposition BJP and the JD(S) fired another salvo on Wednesday, by accusing him of phone-tapping. JD(S) State president H.D. Kumaraswamy, who was the first to take on Mr. Siddaramaiah, alleged that his phones were under surveillance after he started tracing the origin of the expensive

Mangaluru, Mar 2: The personnel of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) conducted a mock drill on Wednesday at the HPCL premises, to display ways dealing with industrial accidents and natural disaster. The drill was organised in association with the district administration and 32 other departments of the government. As part of the drill, the leakage in the pipeline at HPCL's 650-metric

Mangaluru, Mar 2: Customs at Mangaluru International Airport seized 5.5 kg contraband gold valued at over Rs. 1.57 crore during February, 2016. The items was found concealed in items like tiger balm bottles, oats tins, mobile phone cases, power banks, solar power inverter, iron box etc. The detections were in contrast to the usual modes of concealment in items like mixer, speaker, oven etc., M

Bengaluru, Mar 2: Mired in a controversy over a luxury watch gifted to him, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah today handed it over to the Speaker amid uproar in the state Assembly, declaring it a state asset. As the Assembly was rocked by the controversy for the second consecutive day, an angry Siddaramaiah gave the watch and a letter to Speaker Kagodu Thimappa as BJP and JDS members continued to stage

Sirsi, Mar 2: BJP Lok Sabha Anant Kumar Hegde has landed in trouble with the police registering a criminal case against him suo motu for his alleged remarks linking Islam to terrorism. The case has been booked at Sirsi in Uttara Kannada district under section 295(A) of IPC relating to "deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or

A forensic report has revealed that one of Smriti Irani's former aides had doctored' videos that accused the JNU students' leader Kanhaiya Kumar of making anti-India slogans. India Today reported that the Forensic Audio, Video, Authentication Report' found two files to be problematic.' The first video was named as Q1 and titled as Kanhaiya caught shouting anti-India slogans.' This clip reportedly

Bengaluru, Mar 2: Dr Kaup Mohamed, dean, London American City College - United Arab Emirates, has urged the Indian universities to impart value based quality education. He gave this statement after singing of Memorandum of Understanding between London American City Educational Trust, Bengaluru and Periyar University, Salem, Tamil Nadu to offer their PRIDE's Degree Courses in Bengaluru. Dr Kaup