Karnataka

Bengaluru, Mar 28: Karnataka seems to have woken up to regulate various commercial activities including home stays at tourist destination to protect the interest of tourists and the industry. Karnataka government on Friday tabled the Karnataka Tourism (Facilitation and regulation) Bill-2015 in the legislative assembly.The Bill proposes registration of home stays, travel agents, tour operators

Bengaluru, Mar 28: Over 8.56 lakh students will write the Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC) exam from March 30 across 3,038 centres. The exam will conclude on April 13. Students from 13,693 schools have registered for the exam. The highest number of schools registered are unaided (5,332), followed by government schools (5,053) and aided schools (3,308). Of the total number of exam

New Delhi, Mar 28: Senior leaders Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan have been removed from the National Council of the Aam Aadmi Party. A proposal to remove them was moved at the National Council meeting in New Delhi on Saturday and was adopted with majority. Mr. Yadav’s supporters Anand Kumar and Ajit Jha have also been removed from the National Executive Miscreants owing allegiance to Delhi

Mangaluru, Mar 28: Eminent interventional cardiologist and chief cardiologist of Fr Muller Medical College and Hospital Dr H Prabhakar has been unanimously elected as the President for the year 2015-16 of the Prestigious Association of Physicians of India (A.P.I.) D.K. Chapter at a annual general body meeting held recently. He will assume charge of the association on April 1. Dr Raghav Sharma has

Kozhikode, Mar 28: A documentary film ‘Then They Came for Me’ directed by rights activist and documentary film-maker Gopal Menon and produced by the Solidarity Youth Movement, the youth wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, Kerala was premiered in the city recently. The film based on the cases and lives of people who had been arrested from Kerala under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) was

Udupi, Mar 28: City Municipal Council President P Yuvaraj presented a surplus budget of Rs 1.21 crore for Udupi CMC for the year 2015-16, at a special meeting at the Council hall on Friday. The budget of Rs Rs 83.56 crore includes the Central and State government’s funds, and a major portion reserved for various developmental works and providing basic facilities to the city including drinking

Kasaragod, Mar 28: A 44-year-old man died after being struck by lightning at Timiri in the district on Friday. K. Balakrishnan was working in his paddy field around 4 p.m. when lightning struck, the police said. He was rushed to a hospital at Cheruvathur and shifted to the Pariyaram medical college hospital where he was declared brought dead.

Bengaluru, Mar 28: The canine menace has returned to haunt Bengalureans on Friday when four stray dogs bit a toddler on face, leaving him badly injured. The incident occurred at KP Agrahara, off Magadi Road, at 6:30 pm. Four-year-old Naveen was playing outside his house when a pack of four dogs attacked him. They bit his nose and cheek. Onlookers who saw the kid battling with the strays rushed to

Mangaluru, Mar 27: A large number of Christians carried out demonstration condemning attacks on Christians and moral policing reported across the country. The event was organised by the Mangalore Diocese. Addressing the gathering on Friday, activist Nelson Monis said it was unfortunate that a community that has stood for communal harmony and that worked for the literacy of the masses are subject

Mangaluru, Mar 27: Governor of Karnataka Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala on Friday encouraged the translation of literary works in regional languages to Hindi so that majority of the Indian population which was Hindi-speaking, could understand the ideas and concepts in them. Inaugurating the Joint Regional and Official Language Conference of South and South-West Regions, organised by the Department of