Karnataka

Bengaluru, May 27: As many as 17 pre-university (PU) colleges across the State will be closed from the 2017-2018 academic year. A Government Order, issued recently, stated that three colleges had zero admissions, while 14 had less than 10 enrolments. All 17 will therefore be closed this year. “Despite initiating several measures, the student strength has not been improving in these colleges. So we

Kasargod, May 24: Hundreds of Kannada linguistic minorities picketed the District Collectorate on Tuesday in protest against the government’s decision to make Malayalam mandatory in schools from the coming academic year. The functioning of the Collectorate was hit following the protest. Nearly 10,000 protesters, including Kannada medium teachers, women, and children, blockaded the eight gates to

Bengaluru, May 24: Rubbishing the allegations that state government had not paid salary to IAS officer Anurag Tewari as baseless, Food and Civil Supplies Minister U T Khader has urged the people not to politicize the issue. It is not true that the state government had not paid the officer the salary for the past few months as punishment. There was some delay in the salary payment due to some

Bengaluru, May 24: Nobel Peace Prize winner and Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, on Tuesday said the biggest threat to humanity is one-sided education. "We only teach material values to our children and there is no effort to make them learn more important inner values. This is the most destructive weapon for humanity," he said in an interview to a news paper. The absence of a holistic

Mangaluru, May 24: ICT Academy is an initiative of the Government of India in collaboration with the State Governments and Industries. ICT Academy is a not for profit organization, the first of its kind venture under the Public - Private - Partnership model that endeavors to train the higher education faculty members and students thereby exercises on developing the next generation faculty members

Mangaluru, May 24: The two youths from Mangaluru taluk, who were languishing in a sheep farm in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for past five months, have been finally freed. They are expected to fly back to India soon as the Saudi labour department officials formally intervened and handed over their passports that were confiscated by their visa sponsor, back to them. Damodar Shettigar (31), a resident of

Belagavi, May 24: Urban Development Minister Roshan Baig said here on Tuesday that the State government would bring in legislation to check “anti-Karnataka activities” by elected representatives. He condemned the “anti-Karnataka” stand of Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti-backed corporators in Belagavi. Representing Karnataka but working against its interests is “unacceptable”, he said and dismissed the

Gadag, May 24: State BJP president B?S?Yeddyurappa on Tuesday charged that 7 tmcft of dead storage water from the Almatti dam has been supplied to Jindal industries during drought and Water Resources Minister M?B?Patil is involved in large-scale irregularities in the moderinsation works of Malaprabha and Ghataprabha canals. Addressing a press conference during his drought study tour here, he said

Bengaluru/New Delhi, May 24: The Congress’ move to interact with the district-level leaders appears to have proved that all is not well in the state unit of the ruling party. A factional feud and a rift among the party leaders in Kalaburagi, Koppal and Ballari districts came to the fore when AICC general secretary in-charge of Karnataka K C Venugopal and Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday held

Bengaluru, May 24: A policeman working in the chief minister’s home office reportedly killed his wife and two children before attempting suicide in the police quarters at Hegde Nagar, northeast Bengaluru, in the early hours of Tuesday. S Subhash Chandra, 32, a City Armed Reserve (CAR) head constable, force-fed his three-year-old daughter Manya, one-year-old son Pruthvi and wife Veena (28) with