Karnataka

Bengaluru, May 23: Now, it is the turn of Legislative Council Chairman D?H Shankarmurthy to seek control of certain portions of the Vidhana Soudha. He has also written a letter to this effect to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah. Speaking to reporters on Monday, the Council chairman said, “We want some rooms on the first and second floors of Vidhana Soudha under the Council’s purview. Rooms have been

Shivamogga, May 23: Four officials of the Prisons Department were suspended on the charge of dereliction of duty on Monday after undertrial prisoner Mohammed Rahman Hussain (25), a Bangladesh national accused in illegal immigration case, escaped from the district prison on Sunday evening. District Jail Superintendent Mari Gowda said told DH?that G M Mahesh and A S Koutker, both chief warders and R

Bengaluru, May 23: The Multiplex Association of India (MAI) has requested Prime Minister Narendra?Modi, Finance Minister Arun?Jaitely and the Goods and Services Tax Council to lower the GST rate for the film industry and evolve a system whereby entertainment tax levied by local bodies is allowed to be set off from GST liability. “We are completely shocked as the GST Council has decided to tax

Udupi, May 22: An under-trial prisoner’s obsession with an IPL match landed him in trouble in Udupi prison on Sunday night. Tony James from Kerala was thrashed by about six other prisoners at the district jail at Anjar village near Hiriyadka of Udupi district when he insisted on watching the match till late in the night in full volume. N.S. Shivakumar, jail superintendent of the district jail

Bengaluru, May 22: Scaling up the political ladder is turning out to be an all-from-the-family affair in Congress in Karnataka. A pointer to this is the Karnataka Pradesh Youth Congress polls, where a majority of the newly elected office bearers are kin of senior party leaders. Basanagouda Badarli , K Kemparaju, Sumaiya Tabrez and R Rajendra Basanagouda Badarli, who got elected as the state youth

Udupi, May 22: As many as 20 small huts of migrant workers were destroyed in an outbreak of fire at Adkadakatte near Nittur here on Monday. However, there were no injuries or loss of life in the incident. The incident took place around 2 p.m. The huts belonged to migrant workers and they had all gone out to work, when the fire broke out. Two gas cylinders in the huts too got exploded due to the

Mangaluru, May 22: Dakshina Kannada district in charge minister B Ramanath Rai on Monday released Beary Kaavya Samputa, an anthology of poems written by 100 Beary poets and published by Karnataka Beary Sahitya Academy in the city. Speaking on the occasion, Mr Rai said the presence of 100 Beary poets is a proof for the richness of the dialect. Calling upon the young Bearys to engage in literary

Raichur, May 22: Expressing the desire to handle responsibility in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), mining baron and former Minister G. Janardhan Reddy has said that he was ready to accept any responsibility if the party gives it to him. Otherwise, “I shall remain a common worker while strengthening the party for the next Assembly election in 2018,” he told presspersons in Raichur before leaving

Lucknow, May 22: Uttar Pradesh government on Monday recommended a CBI probe into the mysterious death of Karnataka cadre IAS officer Anurag Tiwari. ''We have recommended a CBI probe in the matter,'' said a senior state home department official here. The family members of Tiwari had demanded a CBI probe into the death saying that they had no faith in the police investigation. After his body was

New Delhi, May 22: From "social boycott" of Muslims who resort to triple talaq to the appointment of an arbitrator to settle marital disputes are some features of the new guidelines issued by the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) for married couples. The AIMPLB today told the Supreme Court that it has issued "guidelines for the husband and wife at the time of dispute" which has to be