Karnataka

Riyadh, Jun 6: Expatriates are likely to find it more difficult to stay in contact with their loved ones at home with the banning of Viber by Saudi Arabia's telecommunications regulatory authority. The Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) announced the ban on its website on Wednesday. The ban was introduced because monitoring is difficult for the state and it deprives

Bangalore, Jun 6: The debate over the government's decision to ban gutka has continued both in the Legislative Assembly Council. However, Karnataka government has reiterated that the ban imposed on gutka would stay, rejecting the demand of the opposition BJP which argued that the move would hit arecanut growers in the State. At the end of a debate on the issue in the state Assembly on Wednesday

Bangalore, Jun 5: A 93-year-old man was rescued by the City police from the terrace of his house near Banashankari Temple where his family had allegedly chained him for the last one-and-a-half years. The nonagenarian was hardly fed, and left to defecate in a narrow open space. Anantaiah Setty was on Wednesday found chained below an elevated platform erected for the overhead tank. H?S Revanna, DCP

Mangalore, Jun 5: The knowledge about the largest nuclear disaster at Chernobyl did the trick for the students of Mt. Carmel School as they walked away as the winners of the CIL Environment Quiz 2013 organised by Centre for Integrated Learning in association with Lions Club Mangalore at Chinmaya School in the city to mark the World Environment Day on Wednesday. Sharada Vidyalaya bagged the Runner

New Delhi, Jun 5: Voicing reservations over the full-fledged operationalisation of the ambitious NCTC, Congress-ruled Karnataka today said the body should not be given "unbridled powers". Newly-appointed Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah also said that Naxal movement is "definitely trying to disturb" the security situation in his state. "Some safeguards are necessary before setting up NCTC so

Riyadh, Jun 5: Indian Expatriates affected by the Nitaqat laws have demanded Air India to introduce additional flight to carry Indian expats who are supposed to leave the Saudi Arabian country by July 3, 2013. According to the reports over 60,000 Indians have registered themselves to leave the country by using the concession that has been granted by Custodian of Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah

Mangalore, Jun 5: Senior Kannada littérateur Nadoja Dr. Kayyara Kinhanna Rai must be conferred with the title of 'Rashtrakavi', said Harikirishna Punarooru, former president, Kannada Sahitya Parishath. Addressing media persons at a news conference in Mangalore on Wednesday, Mr. Punarooru said that Mr. Rai is a legend of Kannada literature who has tirelessly fought for the cause of Kannada and

Mangalore, Jun 5: Jam'iyyathul Falah will hold a felicitation programme for newly elected MLAs and ministers from the region at a programme on June 8, Shahul Hameed, Chief Secretary, Jam'iyyathul Falah, DK and Udupi. Addressing media persons at a news conference in Mangalore on Wednesday, Mr. Hameed said that the organization will felicitate newly elected MLAs and ministers from DK and Udupi

Bangalore, Jun 5: Minister for Forests, Ecology and Environment and Dakshina Kannada district-in-charge B Ramanath Rai has landed in soup for allegedly demolishing a wall between his chamber and a room allotted to his personal staff on the third floor of the Vidhana Soudha. The wall between the rooms 304 and 305, allotted to Rai, facing high court of Karnataka, has been found demolished. The move

Mangalore, Jun 5: The inquiry into the sexual harassment case filed by ASI Shrikala against ACP Jaganath has started in Mangalore. An inquiry committee of nine member formed as per the direction of Apex Court convened a meeting at Police Commissioner's office in the city. During the first meeting convened by the Committee, all the nine members were present butboth the complainant and the accused