Karnataka

Bengaluru, Nov 25: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has dropped his plans to tour the US and France for wooing investors to the State, in view of upcoming elections to the Legislative Council. Siddaramaiah was planning to conduct roadshows in the US and France as part of the preparations for ‘Invest Karnataka 2016’ scheduled for February 3 and 4 next year. The chief minister was scheduled to leave

Bengaluru: Nov 25: Justice Subhash B Adi on Tuesday reacted sharply to the petition by Congress MLAs to the Speaker to move a motion to oust him as the Upalokayukta. Justice Adi said his direction for investigation into corruption within the Lokayukta was the reason for former Upalokayukta Justice S B Majage to target him. “Let them produce one instance of me involved in corruption, I will resign

Mangaluru, Nov 25: In a gut-wrenching tragedy, two II PU students met watery grave in Kumaradhara at Kukke Subrahmanya. The Subrahmanya police said Jitesh A.R. (17) and Stephan Raj (17), students of Kukke Subrahmanya Pre-University College, and eight of their classmates went to the bathing ghat for a swim on Monday evening after their classes. Jitesh and Stephan Raj reportedly ventured deep into

Mysuru, Nov 25: Two pregnant women who were admitted to the government-owned Cheluvamba Hospital died within a span of 12 hours between Monday and Tuesday. While one woman died of epilepsy on the operation table, another died after pre-mature delivery.The deceased are Vasantha (28), wife of Shivanna from Hirehalli, HD Kote taluk in Mysuru district, and Sameena Taj from Lashkar Mohalla in the city

Shivamogga, Nov 25: The coveted Padma Vibhushan and Padma Bhushan, highest civilian awards conferred on the late Kuvempu, were stolen from the attic of his ancestral home-turned-memorial at Kuppalli in Thirthahalli taluk on Monday night. Sources in Kuvempu Pratishtana, caretakers of the memorial, confirmed that the two top awards conferred on the poet in 1958 and 1988 respectively, besides three

Bhatkal, Nov 24: The Uttara Kannada district police have made it clear that Adnan Hasan Damudi, a resident of Bhatkal town who was reportedly detained by the Dubai police recently for his alleged links with the ISIS, was not wanted in any case in Karnataka. Unconfirmed reports say that he was arrested three months ago in Dubai and has been in police custody since then. A senior police said that

Bhopal/Hyderabad, Nov 24: BJP lost its first parliamentary seat today after the party's spectacular 2014 Lok Sabha victory when it failed to retain the Ratlam-Jhabua constituency in a bypoll in Madhya Pradesh losing to Congress in a setback coming close on the heels of its Bihar drubbing. The defeat in a BJP-ruled state that helped Congress increase its tally to 45 in the Lower House reverses the

Bengaluru, Nov 25: In a temporary breather to Bharatiya Janata Party national vice-president and former Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, the High Court of Karnataka on Tuesday set aside the sanction granted by the then Governor in 2011 for prosecuting him on the charge of alleged illegal denotification of acquired lands and allotment of site in favour of his son. However, the Bench remitted the

Mangaluru, Nov 24: Ibrahim Kodichal, a prominent Muslim leader in Dakshina Kannada, who is also the ad-hoc president of the District Congress committee, has called Social Democratic Party of India a communal outfit. “SDPI is a communal outfit. It is a political party grown out of a communal organisation,” said Mr Kodichal said at a press meet in the city. He said that SDPI and saffron

Mangaluru, Nov 24: Five members of a Mangaluru-based family had a miraculous escape after an electricity pole came down on the car they were travelling in Koppa taluk in Chikkamagaluru district. The incident occurred when the family members were on their way to Heggadde near Shanuvalli village in Koppa taluk for a family function. As the car was on State Highway 65 at Shanuvalli, an electricity