Karnataka

Bangalore, Jan 5: Karnataka Energy Minister Shobha Karandlaje, who is under the eye of a storm for her outbursts over safety of women in the state, is likely to be axed from the ministry, according to BJP sources. There was a demand for dropping Shobha, considered close to KJP chief B S Yeddyurappa, from the ministry with immediate effect at the BJP Core Committee meeting held here, sources said

Mangalore, Jan 5: In an attempt to make Karnataka a 'model mental health state', the Karnataka State Mental Health Task Force has been set up by the state government. Briefing media persons at the Deputy Commissioner's office in Mangalore on Saturday on the various steps planned to enhance the quality of treating mental illnesses, Dr. K A Ashok Pai, Chairman of the Task Force, said that a district

Mangalore, Jan 5: The shame and stigma associated with rape is the reason that several rape victims hesitate to report the crime and remain silent about it, said chairperson of Child Welfare Committee and advocate Asha Nayak, at an awareness programme on the atrocities of women in the country. Speaking at a panel discussion at the programme organised by St Agnes College at the college auditorium

Mangalore, Jan 5: A commission appointed by the Committee for Resisting Saffronisation of Education, Mangalore, has found that the new textbooks for the Class 5 and Class 8 recently released by the Karnataka Textbook Society (under the DSERT) have been “saffronised”, for the most part and have gone against the spirit of National Curriculum Framework 2005. Though NCF 2005 has recommended that

Mangalore, Jan 5: Although Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) are the lifeline of Indian economy, only 5% of MSMEs have obtained registration from the government which is a cause of concern, said M Prabhu, Additional Director (MSME), Department of Industries and Commerce, Government of Karnataka. He was delivering the keynote address at the inaugural ceremony of the National Vendor

Bangalore, Jan 5: Ruling parties exploiting the budget in a poll year to boost electoral prospects is old hat. However, Karnataka's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is using budget-politics to corner the party's former leader in the state, B.S. Yeddyurappa. Assembly elections are due in May and Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar is determined to present a full-budget to the legislature in the

New Delhi, Jan 5: Breaking his silence for the first time since the horrific Dec 16 gang-rape, the victim's friend said he wished he could have saved the 23-year-old woman and blamed police for delaying taking them to hospital for over two hours. "I wish I could have saved her," the young man, who Delhi Police have said is a 28-year-old software engineer, told Zee News in an exclusive interview

Mangalore, Jan 5: In what could have been a major catastrophe, a fire erupted at the laboratory of a private hospital in the city in the wee hours of Saturday destroying expensive machinery and documents. The fire started at around 2:30 a.m. at the first floor of Kasturba Medical College Hospital located at Ambedkar Circle. The fire accident resulted in an estimated loss of property worth nearly

Mangalore, Jan 5: The tusker Lakshmisha which created panic on the streets of Puttur was finally put into a cage on Friday and sent to Nagarahole. Lakshmisha had also killed its mahout on Thursday. The vehicle with a special cage arrived at 6:00 pm and within half an hour, the tusker was pushed into the cage by three elephants. The elephants involved in the operation are Abhimanyu from Kantapura

Mangalore, Jan 5: The 'Talent Library' for IAS, KAS, and other competitive exams was inaugurated at the office of Talent Research Foundation (TRF) in Mangalore on Friday, in the presence of Mangalore Qazi Thwaka Ahmed Musliyar. Speaking after inaugurating the library, Abdul Ahad Puthige, Superintendent of Police (SP), CID, Bangalore, said that students must not run away from attempting competitive