Karnataka

Kasaragod, july 22: In a novel initiative to promote organic farming, Neeleshwaram municipality has embarked on an ambitious project by forming a ‘WhatsApp’ group of stake holders to streamline cultivation making use of available barren land. The group coordinated by the municipal Secretary has councillors, aspiring group farmers, Kerala Agriculture University experts, Agriculture officials

Bengaluru, Jul 22: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the case of corruption in the anti-graft ombudsman on Tuesday arrested and produced one Ashok Kumar (30), a resident of Rajajinagar, before the Lokayukta special court. Sources said Ashok, who is into real estate and sand transportation business, was the one who made calls to M N Krishnamurthy, executive engineer, Bengaluru Zilla

Bengaluru, Jul 21: A JD(S)-sponsored no confidence motion against the Siddaramaiah government in Karnataka was today defeated in the Legislative Assembly by a voice vote after the Chief Minister called the move a "futile exercise" and "politically motivated". With the numbers clearly stacked in favour of the government and the BJP also fighting shy of backing the motion, the JDS offensive ended in

Mangaluru, Jul 21: Under the guidance of Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA), Karnataka Regional Cricket Academy (KRCA) and Mangalore Occasionals are set to organise 'Amaco Mangalore Premier League' 2015, a regional T-20 cricket tournament as a platform for young talented cricketers from Dakshina Kannada, Udupi and Kodagu districts, in December 2015. Announcing this at a press conference in

Thiruvananthapuram, Jul 21: The Kerala High Court on Tuesday granted conditional exemption to two Muslim girls from the dress code introduced by the CBSE for candidates of All India Pre-Medical Test slated for July 25. While allowing the litigants to wear headgear/hijab during the examination, the bench of justice K Vinod Chandran said the exemption was applicable only for the petitioners. Earlier

Udupi, Jul 21: Over two dozens of college students were injured, some of them critically, after a bus in which they were travelling skidded off the road into a stream at Gudiyadka near Karkala taluk of Udupi district. The tragedy took place when the bus was carrying around 45 students to a degree college on Tuesday morning. According to sources, the driver lost control over his vehicle as he

New Delhi, Jul 21: India has seen a near 25% increase in incidents of communal violence in the first five months of 2015 under the NDA government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, compared to the corresponding period of the previous year when the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance was in power. Home ministry data accessed by ET shows that 287 incidents of communal violence were reported

Udupi/Kasaragod, Jul 21: The bodies of two persons who met watery graves last week in different parts of Udupi district were found on Monday. The body of the fisherman Shivananda Kotian, who was missing since July 18, was traced at Kaipunjal in Uliyargoli village near Kaup on Monday. According to the police, Kotian had gone out for fishing in a traditional boat with eight other fishermen from

Kasaragod, Jul 21: A final year degree student who set himself afire at his residence at Velutholy, near Pallikare, died on Monday. The deceased has been identified as Sunil Kumar, 21, a final year degree student of Payyannur college. He succumbed to burns at the Pariyaram medical college, the police said. The police suspect that the youth might have taken the extreme step owing to acute distress

Bengaluru, Jul 21: Respirable Suspended Particulate Matter (RSPM) in Bengaluru is found to be average 126 per cent more than the prescribed limit, Minister for Environment, Ecology and Forest Ramanath Rai told the Legislative Assembly said on Monday. Replying to a query by BJP’s R Ashoka, the minister said that the RSPM was found to be more than the prescribed limit in 13 out of the 15 places in