Karnataka

Bengaluru, May 20: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday reiterated that he wants to raise the cap on reservation in employment and education to 70% from the present 50%. The government is waiting for the social-economic census report (caste census). It will take an appropriate decision in this regard, he told reporters. He claimed that migration of people to cities and towns in search of jobs has

Lucknow/Bengaluru, May 20: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Uttar Pradesh police will question Karnataka cadre IAS officer Anurag Tewari’s friend and fellow IAS officer, P N Singh, who is said to have stayed with him in the government guest house in Lucknow the night before the former was found dead on May 17. Tewari, who was Commissioner, Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs

Bengaluru, May 20: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday mocked the ongoing drought tour of the state BJP leaders, saying “they are going round the state holding umbrellas.” “BJP leaders have begun drought study tour at a time when the monsoon is about to begin. They should have done it much before. Maybe it was too hot for them to tour all these days... They are now going around the state holding

Bengaluru, May 20: Former minister G Janardhana Reddy appeared before the Special Investigation team (SIT) on Friday in connection with an allegation he had made in 2006 that the then chief minister H D Kumaraswamy and two members of his Cabinet had received a Rs 150-crore kickback from mining companies. Appearing before the investigating officer at the SIT’s office on Ballari Road, Reddy sought

Mumbai, May 20: Renowned Islamic preacher and Indian televangelist Dr Zakir Naik has been granted Saudi Arabian nationality by Saudi King Salman, according to reports. Sources claimed that the Islamic scholar was granted Saudi citizenship to escape potential arrest amidst reports that Prime Minister Narendra Modi led government in India is allegedly trying to implicate him in false cases. Indian

Kozhikode, May 19: The Kunnamangalam police have booked 16 members of the management and faculty of the Karanthur-based Markaz Institute of Engineering and Technology (MIET), on charges of cheating students. The case was registered on Tuesday under Section 420 of the Indian Penal Code on the basis of a complaint filed by Mohammed Nasheed, a leader of the Markaz Students Samara Samiti, who alleged

Bengaluru, May 19: With the BJP demanding a CBI probe into the mysterious death of a Karnataka-cadre IAS officer in Lucknow amid suspicions of foul play behind it, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah today said his government will cooperate in any enquiry into it. Tiwari, a 2007-batch IAS officer serving as commissioner of the Food, Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs Department, was found dead under

Bengaluru, May 19: Incessant rain in the evening resulted in 12 flights scheduled to arrive at the Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) getting diverted to Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Mumbai. Eleven of the 12 flights - all scheduled for arrival after 7pm - were passenger flights, while the aircraft diverted to Mumbai was a cargo plane. Confirming the diversions, KIA officials said rain

Bengaluru, May 19: Kannada film producer Parvathamma Rajkumar, who has been hospitalised for a week now, is responding to the treatment well and she is showing signs of recovery, said the doctor on Friday. Parvathamma, however, is still on the life support system and the doctors said they would not say she is completely out of danger until the ventilator's assistance for respiration is removed

Mangaluru, May 19: Rubbishing the allegation of the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) officials that the Mangaluru City Corporation’s sewage treatment plant at Pachanady has been releasing effluents to Gurupur/Phalguni river, Mayor Kavitha Sanil on Friday blamed the untreated industrial discharge for the contamination of the water on the downstream of the Maravoor vented dam that led