Karnataka

New Delhi, Jul 4: Over 18,700 cases of dengue have been reported in the country this year, with the Health Ministry attributing early onset of monsoon as one of the factors for spurt in cases ahead of the vector-borne disease season. The maximum number of cases have been reported in Kerala with 9,104 followed by Tamil Nadu with 4,174 till July 2. Union Health Minister J P Nadda today held a review

New Delhi, Jul 4: The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Union government to tell within two weeks if the people with genuine reasons can be allowed to deposit demonetised currency notes of Rs 500 and 1000 beyond March 31. "If one can establish that the money was his or hers, you cant deprive them from depositing the money," a bench of Chief Justice J S Khehar and Justice D Y Chandrachud told

Abu Dhabi, Jul 4: Over 700 fake job offers made to Indians in the UAE has been thwarted by the Indian embassy here in the last six months. "Between January and June 2017 alone, we have got 792 inquiries about employment offers, and only 66 turned out to be genuine. More than 700 were fake," India's Ambassador to the UAE Navdeep Singh Suri said. Raising the red alarm over the staggering number of

Mangaluru, Jun 4: A day after district in-charge minister B Ramanath Rai brushed aside the “shocking” allegations made against him by former Congress leader Harikrishna Bantwal, the latter on Tuesday threw the gauntlet to the former inviting him for a truth test at Sri Kshetra Dharmasthala. “Let Mr Rai come Dharmasthala and swear on deity, Sri Manjunatha Swami, that he hasn’t abused senior

Kasaragod, Jul 4: In a major blow to Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) in the coastal district, a senior party leader, along with 250-odd supporters, has decided to join hands with the Communist Party of India (Marxist), terming the Left party a better ‘secular face’ in the emerging national political scenario. Former IUML district general secretary K.K. Abdulla Kunhi and former party’s

Mangaluru, Jul 4: Three persons have been arrested by the by the sleuths of city crime branch (CCB) of Mangaluru city police on charges of possessing ganja. The police have also recovered a motorbike and three cellphones from the accused. The arrested are Ramiz Raja of Naringana, Mohammaed Haneef of Natekal and Iqbal Harris of Belma. A CCB team headed by inspector Sunil Naik picked them from a

aMangaluru, Jul 4: Anti-Pollution Drive (APD) Foundation, Mangaluru has reached a new milestone by successfully completing one year of executing various community outreach projects under the Inform-Educate-Communicate (IEC) initiative under mandate from Mangalore City Corporation. This initiative called for a continuous series of community level interactions with the public stretched over the last

Shivamogga, Jul 4: BJP state president B S Yeddyurappa on Monday said that he has no belief in pre-poll surveys. Even if the results of such surveys are not in favour of the BJP, the party workers need not lose confidence as he knows the pulse of the people of the state, the former chief minister told reporters here on Monday. He exuded confidence that the BJP would come back to power in the state

Chikkamagaluru, Jul 4: A woman from Chikkamagaluru district is battling for life in the US after she met with a mishap during scuba diving. V Shruti, a native of Lakkavalli in Tarikere taluk in the district, had gone for scuba diving at Hawaii Island, US, recently, when her oxygen mask fell off. Shruti then slipped into coma. She had recently married Seetharamakrishna of Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh

New Delhi, Jul 4: The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the bail application filed by software engineer Mehdi Masroor Biswas who was arrested by the Bengaluru police in December 2014 for running a pro-IS Twitter handle. A bench of Justices Adarsh Kumar Goel and U U Lalit rejected the petition filed through advocate Farukh Rasheed. It, however, directed that the trial against Biswas be completed