Karnataka

Bengaluru: May 10: The State government will take a decision on imposing penalty on those who violate compulsory voting clause in future polls to panchayat institutions depending on the response of the people in the forthcoming gram panchayat elections. Speaking to reporters after paying a visit to Karnataka Pradesh?Congress Committee (KPCC)?office in Bengaluru on?Saturday, Rural?Development and

Bengaluru: May 10: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said on Saturday that the responsibility of the Excise and Lottery Enforcement Cell of the State police had been separated from the IGP rank officer and the same had been delegated to the superintendents of police at respective districts. He was speaking at a review meeting of the senior police officers at the office of the DG&IGP. The chief minister

Mangaluru, May 10: A woman died on the spot and seven others were injured when a tipper truck hit the multi-utility vehicle in which they were travelling in Belthangady taluk on Saturday. The deceased has been identified as Sharada (58), a resident of Kollegal in Chamarajanagar district. The injured are Sharada’s husband Basavaraj, a former district health officer, their children Vijayalakshmi

Vadodara, May 9: A priest of a temple, said to be trained to use weapons in a camp, gunned down a former councilor of Nadiad Municipality in Gujarat, fuelling communal violence in the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state. Ashok Bhuria, the priest of the temple to Dalaram Bapa, a patron saint of local Dalit community, fired upon Sajid Vora, the ex-councillor using his licenced 12 bore gun at

Mangaluru, May 9: Union law minister D V Sadananda Gowda on Saturday conducted an inspection of the ongoing construction of railway under bridge (RUB) at Padil-Bajal railway crossing near Mangaluru Junction railway station. Briefing media persons after conducting the inspection, Mr Gowda said that although the construction work on the RUB had commenced a year ago, it had not been completed by

Bengaluru, May 9: More than 1.5 lakh students will appear for the Karnataka Common Entrance Test (CET) 2015 to be held on May 12 and 13. The entrance test will be conducted in two sessions on each day. On the first day, in the morning session, between 10:30 am and 11:50 am, students will appear for Biology paper, in the afternoon session (2:30 pm and 3:50 pm) for Mathematics test. The following

Bangalore, May 9: Parents of aspiring students gathered outside Christ College to protest the admission process followed by the University for its BBA and BBA-LLB courses. The University had conducted a All India Level Entrance Exam on 26th April and thereafter conducted micro presentation and personal interview (MP & PI) for all the candidates. The University then issued a notice announcing that

Udupi, May 9: A half-decomposed body of a labourer was found in Bikriguthu near Padebettu village of Udupi district in a ruptured state on Friday. The deceased has been identified as Raja Patil, son of Rukurma Patil from Kanameshwara in Jewargi taluk in Kalaburagi (formerly Gulbarga) district. From his uniform and sandals, it was found that Raja was employed in UPCL as a contract labourer for a

Mangaluru, May 9: A complaint has been lodged against Mysuru-Kodagu MP Pratap Simha for having allegedly threatened a Mangaluru-based journalist. The complaint has been lodged at Kadri police station here by journalist Shreyas, resident of Boluvar in Puttur taluk, currently working for a city-based news portal. With regard to the 2002 hit-and-run case, in which noted cine actor Salman Khan was

Udupi, May 9: Preparations are on for elections to 155 gram panchayats in the Udupi district on May 29. Speaking at a preparatory meeting held in his office, Deputy Commissioner Dr R Vishal said there were 7,38,608 voters in the district, which included 3,85,418 women and 3,53,190 men. There were 367 service voters. The total number of seats was 2,398, including 1,161 general seats and 1,237 seats