Karnataka

New Delhi, Jun 5: Maggi noodles are safe for consumption, Nestle CEO Paul Bulcke said on Friday. "The product Maggi noodles are safe for consumption," he told the media here. "Our priority now is to engage all stakeholders to clarify the confusion. We felt that consumer trust was shaken, that's why we took the product off the shelves. "The tests we have done have found no lead. So we are trying to

Bengaluru, Jun 5: The State government may soon allow the Karnataka Milk Federation (KMF) to increase the price of Nandini milk, Animal Husbandry Minister T B Jayachandra has said. He told reporters on Thursday that the KMF had sought permission to increase the price of milk by Rs 4 (commonly used toned milk which comes in white-and-blue sachet), but the government has yet to take a decision

New Delhi, Jun 5: Southwest Monsoon hit Kerala on Friday marking the start of the rainy season, four days after its normal onset date. “Southwest Monsoon has set in over Kerala, on Friday, June 5, 2015 as against the normal date of June 1,” the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said. “It has further advanced into entire south Arabian Sea, some more parts of Central Arabian Sea, entire

Mumbai, Jun 5: An Air India Express flight schedule to depart from Bangalore for Muscat at 8.50 am has been inordinately delayed as the airline rostered only one out of two pilots needed to operate the flight. Air India Express flights are operated with Boeing 737 aircraft, flown by a set of two pilots, a commander and a first officer. "The airline's crew scheduling department which does the job

Mangaluru/Udupi, Jun 5: Counting of votes in the two-phase Gram Panchayat elections in Karnataka was taken up today, with political parties engaged in the process of assessing their strength at the grass-roots level. The counting process started in Mangaluru, Udupi and taluk headquarters of each taluk in the twin districts as well as the other districts of the state at 8 a.m. on Friday amidst

Bengaluru, Jun 5: Mehdi Masroor Biswas, whom the Bengaluru police have charge-sheeted for handling a pro-Islamic State (IS) Twitter account, “supported” a “Free Kashmir” and “urged revenge” for the killings of Muslims in the 2002 Gujarat communal violence. Biswas, who was initially booked for waging war against an Asiatic power in alliance with the government of India under Section 125 of the

New Delhi, Jun 5: A cabin crew member of an Air India flight was detained by the Jeddah Airport authorities on charges of smuggling out gold. The detained cabin crew was to board the flight bound for Kochi, along with 11 other crew members, sources said on Thursday. The incident, which happened on Thursday morning, forced Air India to operate the flight with 11 cabin crew members instead of

Bengaluru, Jun 5: The State government is abetting terrorism by withdrawing criminal cases against the activists of Karnataka Forum for Dignity and Popular Front of India, who were directly involved in riots in Shivamogga, Hassan and Mysuru, said Shri Rama Sene chief Pramod Muthalik. Addressing a press conference on Thursday, Muthalik said Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy had submitted a report

Wuhan, Jun 5: Quarter-miler Machettira Raju Poovamma and heptathlete Liksy Joseph won silver each as India added four medals on the second day of the 21st Asian Athletics Championships here. Poovamma, who had also won a silver in the last edition in 2013, clocked 53.07 secs in women's 400m finals to finish second behind China's Yang Huizhen (52.37) and was followed by Anastasiya Kudinova (53.41)

Bengaluru, Jun 5: Home Minister K?J?George on Thursday defended the Cabinet decision to withdraw cases against some members of Popular Front of India (PFI) and Karnataka Forum for Dignity (KFD), stating it was done on the recommendation of a Cabinet committee after thorough scrutiny. The Cabinet this week had given its nod to withdraw 40 cases, including some against members of PFI and KFD,?booked