Karnataka

Bengaluru, May 26: A mining baron being probed in various cases of illegal mining in Karnataka has been ordered by an international arbitration tribunal in London to pay a comp-ensation of Rs 44 crore to a UAE-based firm through which he had supplied inferior quality iron ore to Pakistan. The arbitration tribunal has passed two orders in the case of supplying inferior quality of iron ore to

Mangaluru, May 26: The state government has reportedly withheld the appointment of senior IPS officer N Satheesh Kumar to the post of commissioner of Mangaluru city police, in the wake of opposition raised by a section of elected representatives and activists. The government on Thursday had transferred Mr Kumar, who was serving as Deputy Inspector General of Police and Director (Personnel &

Mangaluru, May 26: A tense atmosphere prevailed in Kalladka, one of the most communally sensitive towns in Dakshina Kannada district after a Muslim youth was attacked by a group of miscreants in broad daylight on Friday. Mohammed Hashir, son of Yusuf, a resident of Kalladka, was rushed to a private hospital in Thumbey with severe injuries. He is out of danger. According to local residents

Lucknow, May 26: They perhaps feared that they could be acted against and wanted to ensure that chief minister Yogi Adityanath did not get ''stunk'', when he met these members of the dalit community. In an incident reflective of the prevailing mindset of the people in the society today, authorities in Uttar Pradesh's Kushinagar district reportedly asked members of 'Mushar' (an untouchable

Cochin, May 26: In an unusual judgment that may trigger controversy across the nation, the Division Bench of Kerala High Court has invalidated the marriage of a Hindu converted Muslim girl with a Muslim man after her father recently made an unexpected allegation that she was forcibly converted to Islam by people having affiliation to the ISIS, a notorious terror group. The court also ordered the

Bengaluru, May 26: Chanting unity mantra, AICC general secretary in charge of Karnataka K C Venugopal has exhorted the Congress leaders in the state to end all kinds of infightings if they you want to win the 2018 polls. “If the party is united and if the workers are united, then people will stand by us... Our mantra is: “Be united and retain power in Karnataka,” he told reporters after four days

Madikeri, May 26: The Karnataka government has come up with two novel programmes for women: a women-only tour package and setting up of an all-women trekking guides group. Planned by the Forest department, the all-women trekking guides group is said to be the first such initiative in India. These women groups will help trekkers on the dedicated trekking trails identified by the Forest department

Bengaluru, May 26: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has urged the commercial banks to lend more to housing and education sectors as disbursement in these two areas has declined over the past two years. Speaking after launching the state credit plan for 2017-18 in Bengaluru, Siddaramaiah noted that disbursement under housing loan portfolio has come down from Rs 9,061 crore in 2015-16 to Rs 5,916 crore

Bengaluru, May 26: IAS officer Munish Moudgil has now come out with an improved algorithm which can remove duplication of names of beneficiaries from the database of government departments. At present, the software developed by Moudgil has been used to identify beneficiaries under the newly launched Parihara scheme. It is a scheme under which the Centre’s input subsidy is deposited by the state

Hubballi, May 26: Targeting Water Resources Minister M B Patil, state BJP president B S Yeddyurappa said the party’s nine-member committee headed by former minister Basavaraj Bommai will look into alleged irregularities in the irrigation department, including the release of water from Almatti dam’s dead storage to Jindal company. Terming the irrigation department as the most corrupt, Yeddyurappa