Karnataka

Mangaluru, Apr 20: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah will lay the foundation stone for the new office of Dakshina Kannada District Congress Committee at Mallikatte here on Friday, said acting committee president Ibrahim Kodichal. Announcing this at a press conference here on Tuesday, he said that the new Congress Bhavan for the district party unit and its members would be built on a nine cents plot of

Erode/Chennai, April 21: The Tamil Nadu government has cancelled the plots allotted to Coca-Cola's beverages manufacturing facility in State Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamil Nadu Limited (SIPCOT) Industrial Growth Centre in Perundurai. On April 20, the SIPCOT Managing Director R. Selvaraj issued the cancellation order of 71.34 acres of land allotted to it for non-compliance of terms and

Udupi, Apr 21: In a shocking incident, a newborn baby girl was found dead in a well at Padoor village in Udupi district. Local residents, who noticed the dead body of a small child floating on the water on Monday, informed the police. It is suspected that the mother or parents might have thrown the newborn female child into the well. Medical sources said that the baby might have born two days ago

Mangaluru, Apr 21: Residents of Jokatte stated a protest at Baikampady Industrial Estate demanding action against Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited. The residents who gathered under the banner of Nagarika Horata Samiti in front of the office of the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board were registering their protest against air and water pollution from their coke yard and sulphur

Bengaluru, Apr 20: The Karnataka government on Monday announced a special package for farmers affected by untimely rain and hailstorm in north Karnataka. In a prolonged debate in the Legislative Council on the issue of crop loss suffered by farmers of eight districts due to unseasonal rain and hailstorm, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said he will shortly announce the package details. “The crop loss

Bengaluru: Apr 21: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Monday tried to turn the tables on the aggressive BJP on reconstituting Bengaluru municipal area by dissolving the BBMP, saying that the previous BJP governments, too, had supported the move. “When Jagadish Shettar was the chief minister, he had stated that trifurcation of Bengaluru is necessary in order to provide better services to people. The

Tumakuru, Apr 21: A 12-year-old boy studying at Amalapura Madrasa was allegedly sodomised by his teacher on April 17 in a lodge in Tumakuru. The incident came to light after the boy told his mother about the incident on April 19. His mother had gone to the Madrasa to meet her two children enrolled there. The mother took her son to the Superintendent of Police and lodged a complaint. Police said

Kasaragod, Apr 21: With traffic snarls owing to illegal parking of vehicles becoming the order of the day in the town, the police have initiated firm action against illegal vehicular parking on busy roads, inter-sections, lanes and the crowded bus station premises. As an initial step, the traffic police have started to impose petty fine on owners of vehicles found parked in unauthorised slots. A

New Delhi, Apr 21: Cracking the whip, AAP tonight expelled rebel leaders Prashant Bhusan, Yogendra Yadav and two others for anti-party activities and "gross indiscipline", two days after issuing a show-cause notice to them. The decision to sack them from the party was taken by the national disciplinary committee which said as it was not satisfied with the response it got to the show-cause notice.

Mangalore, Apr 20: As part of a critical service learning project initiated by Fulbright Specialist from the United States Dr Lorna Gonsalves using a Creative Peaceful Resistance (CPR) approach, the opening of ‘Reflection Park’ and unveiling of a painted mural in the premises of School of Social Work, Roshni Nilaya at Valencia here on Monday. With domestic workers as the focus group, the critical