Karnataka

Bengaluru, June 12: True to the indigenous of most complex Space Science Projects and manufacturing of the Spacecraft, the Chandrayaan 2 to be launched on July 15 will have the Indian National Flag on its Lander and the Rover’s wheels is designed on Ashoka Chakra. Briefing news-persons on the launch of the most complex Space programme, ISRO Chairman K Sivan said Chandrayaan 2 depicts the true

Bengaluru, June 12: Continuing their war against corruption, the Karnataka Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) sleuths, have unearthed crores of rupees worth properties illegally amassed by three public servants including a suspended Karnataka University Vice Chancellor. ACB sources said that raids were conducted simultaneously at 11 places including office and properties belonging to suspended Karnataka

Mangaluru, June 12: A 63 year-old farmer and his 32 year-old daughter were electrocuted when they came in contact with live wire in Pilimogaru village of Vamadapavu in Bantwal Rural Police Station limits. Police said on Wednesday that the incident occurred last late evening and victims have been identified as Gopalakrishna, a progressive farmer, was going to his farm along with his daughter Divya

Kalaburgi, June 12: In a gruesome incident, a Father and his two sons were brutally murdered allegedly over land dispute in Medak village of Sedam Taluk in the District today. Police said that the victims were identified as father Mallappa Chinnyya (60) his sons Shankarappa Mallappa (27) and Chinnappa Mallappa (26). It was alleged that cousin brothers of the victims entered the Agriculture land

Bengaluru, Jun 12: Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy, while condemning an alleged incident of parading nude a Dalit in Gundlupet in Chamarajanagar District, directed the Police to take stringent action against the accused. Kumaraswamy, in his tweeter on Wednesday, said that ‘the incident is a most inhuman and directed the police to take action against the accused”. Expressing dismay that

Bengaluru, Jun 12: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday will stage a two-day sit-in from June 14 against the sale of 3,667 acres of land to the JSW Steel in Ballari, the party's Karnataka unit chief B S Yeddyurappa said Wednesday. The protest is also to highlight the "insensitivity" of the Congress-JD(S) coalition government towards the prevailing drought in the State, he told reporters here.

Bengaluru, Jun 12: Clearing a confusion over the disbursement of the farm loan availed by the farmers, from commercial banks, the Karnataka government had decided to clear it at one go. Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy on Wednesday announced the decision to waive off the farm loan availed from the commercial banks in one instalment, as against the original plan to do it in four years of time. With

Bengaluru, Jun 12: Shivappa, a farmer from Sagar village in Yadgir district, was elated when his bank credited Rs 43,553 into his account in April in tune with chief minister HD Kumaraswamy’s pre-poll farm loan waiver promise. On June 3, he found the money had been debited from his account without clarification. He was not alone. At least 13,988 farmers across Karnataka received a jolt after their

Bengaluru, Jun 12: The KarnatakaBJP on Tuesday took a dig at chief minister HD Kumaraswamy, accusing him of openly threatening and abusing journalists in the state. The BJP was reacting to Congress president Rahul Gandhi's tweet against Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath over the action against scribes in the northern state. It listed out incidents of police action against some

New Delhi, Jun 11: Physician-turned-Islamic preacher Dr Zakir Naik has that agencies under Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led union government of India are "desperately trying to pin fictitious charges" on him and are trying everything possible to put him behind the bars. Dr Naik also alleged that agencies are targeting him at the behest of their "political bosses". Yesterday, Malaysian Prime