Karnataka

Shivamogga, Sept 20: Graduated youths and college students on Friday polished shoes and sold fruits at a bus stand in Shivamogga as a mark of protest against unemployment and crisis in the automobile sector. The novel protest was organised by the National Students' Union of India. With fruits, banners and shoes in hand, the NSUI members raised slogans against the Central government over

New Delhi, Sept 20: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) working president J P Nadda flanked by Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa and his cabinet will gather to observe the 60th birth anniversary of late Ananth Kumar, one of the party's tallest leaders in South India on September 22. Apart from Nadda and Yediyurappa, Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers DV Sadananda Gowda, Minister of

Mangaluru, Sept 20: UAE-based NRI philanthropist Dr Sheikh Bava has been elected as the president of the International Committee of the Karnataka Cultural Foundation (KFC) for the next two years. He was chosen during the annual general meeting of the Committee recently held at Sahodaya Hall in Mangaluru in the presence of S P Hamza Sakhafi, Karnataka state unit secretary of the Jamiyyathul Ulama

Bengaluru, Sep 20: AGS Transact Technologies Limited (AGSTTL) today announced that it will manage end-to-end automatic fare collection (AFC) for Bengaluru Metro. The AFC system will be implemented across 61 new stations in phase II over the period of three years. The company will manage supply, installation as well as maintenance at these metro stations. The contract is won by the consortium of

Mudigere, Sept 20: Karnataka Revenue Minister R Ashok has said the State government will sanction alternative land for those farmers, who lost their farm land and house locations owing to landslips in the district and the revenue department had identified 374 acres of land suitable for the flood-hit people. Speaking to newsmen after interacting with flood-hit people at a relief center at

Bengaluru, Sept 20: In a fresh case of online matrimonial fraud, a 45-year-old man from Karnataka’s Chikkaballapura has lost Rs 33 lakh to his dream girl whom he had met on a matrimonial site. A helpless R K Muniraja, an electrician by profession, has now approached police seeking justice after his dream of leading a blissful, married life with newfound girlfriend from Italy came crashing down

Shivamogga, Sept 20: A childless couple’s two decade long marital life took an ugly turn with the woman lodging an instant triple talaq complaint against her NRI husband using WhatsApp chat as proof after he reportedly divorced her over severe differences. The couple had been married for about 20 years, and the woman's husband had left for United Arab Emirates in January but did not come back

Bengaluru, Sept 20: In the vast Bengaluru South Lok Sabha constituency, parliamentarian Tejasvi Surya, unfortunately, couldn’t find any other place to set up his office and hence he had to occupy a public library located in Jayanagar 5th Block. It was a place where students from underprivileged families gathered to prepare for board examinations. The building in question belongs to the Bruhat

Bengaluru, Sept 20: Political foes chief minister BS Yediyurappa and former chief minister and Congress leader Siddaramaiah shared the dais at an event in Bengaluru on Thursday and exchanged pleasantries. Yediyurappa and Siddaramaiah have been bitter rivals since 2010, when the Congress Legislature Party leader had successfully campaigned against the BJP and Yediyurappa in the illegal mining scam

In a major victory for a college girl, who has ousted from a college hostel for violating mobile ban, the Kerala High court has scrapped the restriction imposed by the hostel authorities. Faheema Shirin, a second-year BA English literature student of the Sree Narayana Guru College at Chelannur in Kozhikode district in North Kerala, had approached the HC against the ban imposed at the college