Karnataka

Bengaluru, Oct 22: The indefinite strike by the workers of the state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) for wage revision continued on the 8th day, with the trade unions and management hardening their positions, an official said on Monday. "There Bengais a production loss as nearly 20,000 workers are on strike since October 14 despite 8,000 officers and 11,000 contract employees reporting to duty

Bengaluru, Oct 22: Former Karnataka Chief Minister and JD(S) leader HD Kumaraswamy on Monday met former Karnataka Minister and senior Congress leader DK Shivakumar at Tihar Jail in New Delhi. Speaking to the reporters after meeting Shivakumar who is in judicial custody for alleged money laundering scam, Kumaraswamy said that it was a courtesy visit and ruled out any political angle. He said, “It

Bengaluru, Oct 22: Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Monday said that the state police department would have a cyber crime cell in each district of the state. The units will be established soon and will be made operational to cap the increasing number of cyber crimes in state. Speaking on the occasion of Police Commemoration Day also known as Police Martyrs’ Day in the city the CM assured of

Mangaluru, Oct 22: Interior parts of Dakshina Kannada (DK) and Udupi districts experienced moderate to heavy rains in the last three days even as north interior Karnataka including Belagavi and Shivamogga were badly affected by flooding, Met department sources said on Tuesday. Good showers were reported from a few areas along the coast and in the district during night on Sunday and Monday. Areas

New Delhi, Oct 22: Congress party on Monday approved the proposal for appointment of five party functionaries as District Congress Presidents in Karnataka. As per fresh appointments, SG Nanjaina Math has been appointed as district president for Bagalkot, HR Algur for Bijapur, Amshumanth KP for Chikmagalur, MK Tajpeer for Chitradurga and BV Naik for Raichur. The appointments come days after

New Delhi, Oct 22: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Tuesday predicted heavy rainfall over Kerala and Mahe today. The weather forecast agency further predicted that heavy downpour is likely to occur over Coastal Andhra Pradesh, Yanam, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Karaikal. Isolated places over Vidarbha, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha, Arunachal Pradesh, east Assam, Nagaland

Bengaluru, Oct 22: A 21-year-old final-year BTech student of Amrita School of Engineering committed suicide by jumping off the seventh floor of his college building alleging harassment by the college management, touching off protests by hundreds of students. The nub of the issue was shortage of water and substandard food in the college hostel. The protest ended in the evening after Parappana

Mangaluru, Oct 21: Karnataka Revenue Minister R Ashok on Monday hit out at former Karnataka Chief Minister and Leader of Opposition in Karnataka Assembly Siddaramaiah over his recent remarks on Vinayak Damodar Savarkar in the backdrop of Centre's move to propose Bharat Ratna for him. Ashok slammed Siddaramaiah and added that he has lost his mind and that his remarks against Savarkar were wrong.

Bengaluru, Oct 21: Accusing the Congress party of disrespecting Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, BJP MP Tejasvi Surya on Monday said that not showing respect to patriots was the culture of India's grand old party. Speaking at Gandhi Sankalp Yatra in Vijaynagar Assembly constituency, he said: "It is a great matter of pride for us that Savarkar is being considered for the Bharat Ratna award. Disrespecting

Bengaluru, Oct 20: The Karnataka government has put the Assam-like National Register of Citizens (NRC) proposal on the backburner and decided to narrow down its exercise to creating a database of immigrants without documents and foreign nationals overstaying their visa. The dilution in the exercise move comes a fortnight after Karnataka home minister Basavaraj Bommai announced the NRC would soon