Karnataka

Mangaluru, Jun 2: The much awaited Rs 120 crore market complex at Surathkal has received a special financial boost as the state government has approved for the release of Rs 50 crore through the CMs special grants. Thanking chief minister Siddaramaiah, Mangaluru City North MLA B A Mohiuddin Bava said at a press meet that the government's order proved former minister Krishna J Palemar wrong. Mr

Washington, Jun 2: Coming down heavily on Indian and China, US President Donald Trump has pulled United States on Thursday out of the Paris Accord, a landmark international agreement struck to cut greenhouse gases. The President sited that the Paris climate agreement gave undue advantage to India and China at the cost of the Unite States' interests. “China will be allowed to build hundreds of

Mysuru, Jun 2: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has said the Cabinet expansion will take place after the legislature session which is scheduled from June 5 to 16. Interacting with media persons in Mysuru, Mr. Siddaramaiah said he will decide on inducting new Ministers and their portfolios. But, it would be premature to announce their names at this juncture. There are three ministerial berths that are

Puttur, Jun 2: The bodies of an elderly couple, who drowned in Kumardhara River near Kadaba in Puttur taluk on Wednesday, were recovered yesterday following a joint operation by local divers and policemen. Parameshwara Gowda (56) and his wife Bhavani (55) residents of Charvaka Kumbladi had come to Perabe village near Kadaba to attend a wedding on Wednesday. While returning, instead of taking road

Kasaragod, Jun 2: The Malayalam Language (Learning) Bill, 2017, mandating learning of Malayalam as a compulsory subject from Class I in all schools in the State, is all set to snowball into a major controversy with the Kerala High Court seeking the State's version on the issue. On a writ petition filed by four class I students hailing from Kannada linguistic minority families here, the High Court

Bengaluru, Jun 2: Legislative Council chairman D H Shankaramurthy has served notices to eight MLCs, including six belonging to the Congress, in connection with charges that they claimed about Rs 17 lakh as travel allowance (TA) by reportedly submitting fake bills. The chairman has given time to the MLCs till June 3 to explain their stand on the charges. BJP leader in Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara

Bengaluru, Jun 2: A Lokayukta enquiry report has confirmed large-scale irregularities in handling of Rs 136-crore Bidar infrastructure project fund. The report submitted by Lokayukta chief engineer stated that almost all the infrastructure works were executed in violation of the Karnataka Transparency in Public Procurement Act and also by paying more than what the bidder had quoted for the work

Kalaguragi, Jun 2: BJP state unit president B S Yeddyurappa on Thursday that it would not be right on the part of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to again allot the Home portfolio to minister K J George. “George is very close to the chief minister. We struggled to ensure that he was stripped of the Home portfolio. However, an adamant Siddaramaraiah always functions the other way round,” he said, while

Bengaluru, Jun 2: The Congress is learnt to have put the results of the recent elections to some district office-bearers of Youth Congress on hold following complaints of electoral malpractice. The results of elections to the posts of office-bearers of Bengaluru and Hubballi cities and Kolar district have been put in abeyance. The oath-taking ceremony of the state office-bearers of Youth Congress

Bantwal, Jun 1: Prohibitory orders under Section 144 of the CrPC, which was imposed across Bantwal taluk following last week's untoward incidents in Kalladka, has been extended for one more week. Mangaluu subdivisional magistrate and ACP A C Renuka Prasad had earlier passed an order imposing prohibitory orders the taluk from 6 a.m. on May 27 to 6 p.m. on Jun 2. However, on June 2, he extended the