Karnataka

Bengaluru, Sept 6: Two people have sustained minor injuries in a gas cylinder blast that occurred at a shop in Govindapuram on Friday. The incident took place near HKBK College of Engineering. Fire tenders were rushed to the spot and the fire was doused within half an hour. Further details are awaited.

Kanakapura, Sept 6: Janata Dal (Secular) leader and former Chief Minister of Karnataka, HD Kumaraswamy, met Karnataka Congress leader DK Shivakumar's mother here on Friday. Earlier on Thursday, Congress and JD(S) supporters held a protest at Channabasappa Circle in Kanakapura against the arrest of Shivakumar. Protests had erupted in Kanakapura with flaming wooden stick torches against Shivakumar's

San Francisco, Sept 6: Sanyam Jain, a security researcher and member at Hague-based non-profit organisation GDI Foundation, has discovered a massive database containing over 419 million phone numbers of Facebook users on an unsecured server which were available for anyone to access. The database included 133 million records of US-based Facebook users, 18 million records of UK users and more than

Mysuru, Sept 6: Ahead of the famous 'Mysuru Dasara' festival, a rehearsal was on Friday organised for the elephants which will take part in a parade as part of a religious procession in the city. Mysuru Dasara is a 10-day festival, starting with Navaratri and the last day being Vijayadashami (Dusshera). Every year the same trained elephants are brought from Nagarhole forest and kept in Mysore

Bengaluru, Sept 6: Indian Air force (IAF) was on Friday announced the completion of the Level-1 selection of Indian astronauts for mission Gaganyaan, country's first human mission to space. Taking to Twitter, the IAF said, "Completed Level-1 of Indian Astronaut selection at Institute of Aerospace Medicine. Selected Test Pilots underwent extensive physical exercise tests, lab investigations

Bengaluru, Sept 6: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday said that a supplementary charge sheet has been filed against an accused in the Rs 6.34 lakh Fake Indian Currency Note (FICN) case here in Bengaluru. Sabiruddin, 46, a resident of West Bengal's Malda, has been named in FICN case and the charge sheet has been filed against him before the NIA special court in Bengaluru, the NIA

Mangaluru, Sept 6: In a surprise move, Sasikanth Senthil, the Deputy Commissioner of Dakshina Kannada today tendered his resignation from the Indian Administrative Service citing personal reasons. Though he called his decision “purely personal one”, Mr Santhil added: “I have taken this decision as I feel that it is unethical to continue as a civil servant in the government when fundamental

Bengaluru, Sept 6: After the arrest of Congress trouble-shooter D K Shivakumar by the Enforcement Directorate, the Bharatiya Janata Party is reportedly gearing up for a large scale ‘Operation Lotus’ in Karnataka with dozens of legislators from two main opposition parties of the state – the Congress and Janata Dal (Secular) receiving offer from the Amit Shah led saffron party. If sources are to be

Bengaluru, Sept 6: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday assured a Division Bench of the High Court of Karnataka that it will not arrest till September 17 the three associates of the former Minister D.K. Shivakumar if they appeared before the investigation officer for questioning as per the summons issued to them. An assurance was given to the Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Abhay

With the online content on mobile phones increasing, most Indian viewers consume the content during the traditional office hours of 10 am-6 pm, a recent survey said. As per the survey conducted jointly by KPMG and Eros Now, Indians spend more than around 70 minutes per day on online video platforms, with a consumption frequency of 12.5 times a week or more than once a day, it said. For this report