Karnataka

Bengaluru, Sept 19: Senior Congress leader and former Karnataka minister DK Shivakumar was sent to Tihar Jail on Thursday hours before a Delhi court adjourned hearing on his bail plea to Saturday. Shivakumar was moved to jail soon after he was discharged from Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in Delhi where he was undergoing treatment for chest pain and high blood pressure. He is, perhaps, the first

New Delhi, Sept 19: A Delhi court on Thursday posted the further arguments in a bail plea filed by jailed Karnataka Congress leader D K Shivakumar to September 21 in connection with a money laundering case. Special Judge Ajay Kumar Kuhar partially heard the arguments in the case today. During the course of proceedings, Additional Solicitor General (ASG) KM Natraj said that Shivakumar had made a

Bengaluru, Sept 19: Veteran Kannada actress SK Padmadevi, who had the distinction of having acted in the first ever talkie Kannada cinema, Bhakta Dhruva, in 1934, passed away due to cardiac arrest here on Thursday. She was 95. Family sources said Padmadevi shot to fame in her memorable acting in the movie, 'Samsara Nauke', in which she had also sung four songs, which was released in 1936. The

Bengaluru, Sept 19: Amidst economic slowdown and rampant unemployment, Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa today announced that his government would set up ‘Karnataka Innovation Authority’ and a Vision Group for start-ups. The CM will be the chairman for the Authority while DyCM C N Ashwanth Narayan will be its co-chairman. "... vision group for start-ups will provide insights on

New Delhi, Sept 19: Karnataka Congress MLA Laxmi Hebbalkar on Thursday appeared before the Enforcement Directorate here in connection with the money laundering case against her senior party colleague D K Shivakumar, officials said. They said the woman MLA, who represents Belagavi (Rural), arrived at the agency's officer here in Khan Market around 11 am. The investigating officer of the case is

Bengaluru, Sept 19: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday flew in the Tejas fighter aircraft from the HAL airport in Bengaluru, becoming the first defence minister to fly in the indigenously-built light combat aircraft (LCA). He was accompanied by Air Vice Marshal N Tiwari, who is also the Project Director, National Flight Test Centre, ADA (Aeronautical Development Agency) in Bengaluru. The

Mangaluru, Sept 19: Mangalore University (‘Mangala Yojane’ - Village Adoption Programme), under the auspices of Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of Higher Education – Govt of India, has organized a public awareness campaign against plastic pollution. The programme was conducted to observe ‘Swachhata Pakhwada’, an initiative of Swachh Bharat Mission, in Konaje and Phajeer Grama

Modi 2.0 has emerged as a very powerful Government. It has not only the numerical majority; it is also facing a weak and divided opposition. That is one of the reasons for it stream rolling over people’s opinions and imposing the agenda of RSS-BJP of Hindu nationalism in a blatant way. On one side it has brought in a law banning triple talaq, on the other it has revoked article 370. Encouraged by

New Delhi, Sept 18: Senior Congress leader D K Shivakumar on Wednesday sought bail from a Delhi court, contending that the Enforcement Directorate miscalculated the assets inherited by him and his daughter to make out a money laundering case against him. Senior advocate A M Singhvi, representing the Karnataka’s strongman, submitted before Special Judge Ajay Kumar Kuhar that the seven-time MLA had

Bengaluru, Sept 18: Slamming Congress on their demand for relief funds, State Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Wednesday said Congress has no moral rights to ask for more relief funds. "Congress has no right to protest. In 2009 when floods occurred in the state, they did not do anything. Congress was at the centre but still, in the initial months, no steps were taken. They don't have any moral