Karnataka

Bengaluru, Oct 6: The 13th annual special issue of Vartha Bharati Kannada daily was released on Monday by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, at his office ‘Krishna’ in Bengaluru. Speaking on the occasion Mr Siddaramaiah said: “Vartha Bharati is doing a commendable job by reaching out to the people not only in Karnataka but those living in various countries across the globe with the fragrance of Kannada

Bengaluru, Oct 6: Two persons were being questioned in connection with the alleged gangrape of a call centre employee in a moving van here. "We have rounded up two persons and brought them to the Madiwala Police Station where the case has been registered. We are verifying whether they were the ones who allegedly gangraped the call centre woman employee," Deputy Commissioner of Police Rohini Katoch

Bengaluru, Oct 6: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said India is a "bright spot" in global economic slowdown and assured foreign investors of favourable business conditions, including strong intellectual property rights protection. He also said that the government hopes to roll out the Goods and Service Tax (GST) next year. Renewing government's commitment to creating favourable conditions for

New Delhi, Oct 6: Adding more fuel to the political slugfest over Dadri lynching, BJP MP Sakshi Maharaj has said that he is willing to kill and get killed to save cows. BJP's hatemonger MP Sakshi Maharaj (right) with Prime Minister Narendra Modi “We won't tolerate insult to our ‘mother’...will die, will kill,” he said, adding that the politics going on over the issue is condemnable. Slamming the

Bengaluru, Oct 6: Kannada actor Shivaraj Kumar, son of late matinee idol Dr Rajkumar has been hospitalised after he complained of a severe chest pain while working out at a gym on Tuesday. According to sources, the actor had a history of high blood pressure and had a stressful job - factors that may have contributed to mild heart attack. The gym staff immediately shifted the actor to a hospital

Gandhinagar, Oct 6: Thumbay Moideen, the founder president of UAE based Thumbay Group, addressed a massive gathering of 6000 people, at the ‘Vibrant Business Summit’ at Gandhinagar in Gujarat, organized along the lines of the Vibrant Gujarat Summit. Moideen, who was invited to speak at the “Business Role Model” session enthralled the crowd with his knowledge and experience, as he took them down

Mangaluru, Oct 6: A gang of five robbers waylaid a businessman and robbed a huge amount of cash from him at Vittla in Bantawal taluk. The Mangaluru city and the Dakshina Kannada district police are jointly searching for a vehicle in which a gang fled after robbing a businessman Subash Nayak of nearly Rs 4.5 lakh. According to a complaint registered at Vittla police, Nayak was returning in his car

Bengaluru, Oct 06: A 15-year-old girl reportedly committed suicide at her house at Chikkajala in northern Bengaluru on Monday afternoon just after a few boys abducted and stripped her and then took her nude photographs when she was returning from school. In a death note, she has named two boys and their associates.?“Krishnamurthy and Mohan are responsible for my death. These two and their

Bengaluru:? Oct 6: The State has received less rainfall during the southwest monsoon season, according to Indian Meteorological Department. IMD-Bengaluru Director-in-charge Dr Geetha Agnihotri said that Karnataka has received 679.7 mm of rains against the normal of 832.3 mm, thereby registering a deficit of 18 per cent. She said that Bengaluru and most parts of south interior Karnataka were

Bengaluru, Oct 6: A 22-year-old employee of a leading BPO in Madivala was gang-raped by the driver and cleaner of a tempo traveller she opted to travel in on the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday. The incident came to light on?Monday. According to the police, the victim and her friend dined at a restaurant on Hosur Road on Saturday night. Later, her friend dropped her near Bommanahalli bus