Karnataka

Bengaluru, Aug 28: Though BJP grabbed power in Karnataka under the leadership of B S Yediyurappa with hectic melodrama and enticements, now it is pursuing more dramas and acrobats which pushed the state into hanging and uncertainty, said Elyas Muhammad Thumbe, state president of Social Democratic Party of India, Karnataka state. In a release issued here, he said Yediyurappa is now not in a

Mangaluru, Aug 28: Centre for Environmental Studies of Yenepoya University undertook a sapling planting campaign during the months of July and August under its Green Community Project headed by Dr. Bhagya B. Sharma. The objective of the programme was to create awareness of environment and encourage people’s participation in preserving the ecology. School children and teachers, as well as local

Bengaluru, Aug 28: Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) special commissioner Randeep D on Wednesday said that the ban on single-use plastic has not been implemented in top gear in the region and starting September 1 actions as per Solid Waste Mangement (SWM) bye-laws will be implemented. "In 2016, there was a statewide ban on single-use plastic by the state government which is applicable to

Bengaluru, Aug 28: The police are on the lookout for the principal of a private tutorial, who is facing the charge sexually assaulting a teenage student and then trying to cover up it by promising her to help secure an MBBS seat. The accused, Niranjan Gowda, 29, have been booked by the Ramamurthy Nagar police in Bengaluru under IPC sections 376 (rape) and 420 (cheating). The victim in her

Bengaluru, Aug 28: Within a day signs of rebellion emerged within BJP in Karnataka over allocation of portfolios and ignoring seniors while picking three deputy chief ministers, all the disgruntled leaders fell in following a stern warning by Amit Shah, the invincible supremo of the saffron party. Senior BJP leaders C T Ravi, Jagadish Shettar, R Ashok, K S Eshwarappa and B Sriramulu, were

Bengaluru, Aug 28: Four persons, including three of a family, were killed and two others suffered injuries when the car in which they were travelling jumped the median and crashed into an oncoming truck at Sarjapur in Bengaluru yesterday. The diseased are Anjani Yadav (31), a techie, his wife Neha (28), their two-year-old son Dhruv and their family friend Shubhra Santosh (27). They hail from Uttar

Unnao, Aug 28: She was declared "born dead" and thrown in the garbage by the doctors of a Kanpur hospital. A relative saw signs of life in the newborn and picked her up. The baby girl grew up physically challenged due to the first few minutes of negligence by the doctors. Twenty-nine years later, Noopur Singh, won Rs 12.5 lakh at the country's most celebrated game show 'Kaun Banega Crorepati' (KBC

Bengaluru, Aug 27: As three-time Lok Sabha member Nalin Kumar Kateel took charge as the new Karnataka BJP president, Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Tuesday asked party workers to strengthen the outfit, even as he set the target of over 150 seats in the next assembly polls. Kateel vowed to strengthen the organisation under the guidance of the other leaders and said, he was accepting the

Bengaluru, Aug 27: Congress leader Dr G Parameshwara on Tuesday hit out at Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa stating that Karnataka for the first time is being "completely run by Delhi" and the way senior BJP leaders are being treated by their own party is not just an attack on their self-respect but on the whole state. "Karnataka has never witnessed state leadership being completely run

Mangaluru, Aug 27: In a heartrending tragedy, a youth riding a motorbike with a helmet on, but the chin strap unclipped, was killed today when the headgear flew off in an accident on the outskirts of the city. The victim has been identified as Abhish K Nair, 30, who was an amateur cricketer. He had participated in several local cricket tournaments. An alumnus of St Aloysius College, Mangaluru, he