Karnataka

Bengaluru, Oct 5: The drought-hit State has every reason to heave a sigh of relief, with widespread moderate rains in the last couple of days. The showers are expected to continue for the next one week at least. There is nothing unusual about the State receiving rains during this period, say experts. The upper air cyclonic trough formed between Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea over Karnataka is

Mysuru, Oct 5: Jamboo Savari, the finale of Dasara festivities, will be held on October 23 — as decided earlier — as the State government backtracked on its decision to advance the event to October 22 following opposition from the erstwhile royal family. This means that the festivities will last for 11 days this year, from October 13 to October 23. The government had, on Saturday, decided to

New Delhi, Oct 5: A Muscat-bound Air India flight, with 80 passengers on-board, on Sunday landed under emergency conditions at Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi after being airborne for some time as it developed hydraulic problem. The flight, however, landed safely. An Air India spokesperson said that the pilot decided to take back the aircraft to Delhi due to technical issue. "The

Kanhangad, Oct 4: The police have arrested four of the seven accused involved in the heist at the Vijaya Bank’s Cheruvathur branch last week. The accused had made away with 19.50 kg gold worth nearly Rs.4.87 crore and Rs.2.95 lakh in cash from the bank. A special police squad arrested four persons, including the mastermind, and recovered the looted valuables from two places near Cherkala here

Dadri, Oct 4: Stirring the political cauldron, controversial BJP MLA Sangeet Som today visted Dadri where he attacked Samajwadi Party government, alleging it was appeasing the minority community and innocent people were being framed for lynching of a man over beef eating rumour. Som, who was accused of making inflammatory speeches during the 2013 Muzaffarnagar communal riots, alleged that state

Mangaluru, Oct 4: President of Shashwatha Neeravari Horata Samiti, Chikkaballapur Anjaneya Reddy urged the state government to propose a scientifically feasible alternative for Yettinahole project in order to provide drinking water to the people of Kolar and Chikkaballapur, one which would not cause damage to the Western Ghats and Nethravati water. Speaking at a press conference after a joint

Mangaluru, Oct 4: Popular Front of India will launch a national campaign to defend the democratic rights of people to eat what they like and speak what they like. The decision was taken in the joint meeting of Central Secretariat and the Zonal and State leaders of Popular Front of India at Bangaluru earlier this week. The resolution passed by the National Leadership Meet opined that policies and

Bengaluru, Oct 4: Taking a stand against harassment, one 25-year-old senior executive for J W Marriott gathered her wits, chased, and nabbed a drunken pervert who felt her up in the middle of a bustling street on Tuesday night. High drama ensued on Vittal Mallya Road as Remi Rusha Sen was walking home from work around 8.45 pm. Moments after she crossed the road from the Marriott hotel to her

Bengaluru, Oct 4: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s remark on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s birth in the land of Mahatma Gandhi, has elicited sharp reactions from the BJP. In a joint statement, the leaders of the saffron party, C?T?Ravi, B N?Vijayakumar and S?Prakash have said that Congress leaders had become desperate and could not digest the popularity of Modi. “It appears Siddaramaiah is obsessed

Bishara (Dadri), Oct 4: Five days after Mohammad Akhlaque Saifi was lynched over rumours about cow slaughter in this Uttar Pradesh village, Vishal, accused of inciting the mob, was arrested on Saturday. Vishal is the son of Sanjay Rana, a local BJP leader associated with the party for the past two decades. Mr. Rana is reportedly close to Union Minister of State for Culture and Tourism Mahesh