Karnataka

Mangaluru, May 17: A 31-year-old Chinese crew member with injuries on his right hand has been evacuated from Motor Tanker (MT) Sea Dragon by an Indian Coast Guard Ship, 25 km off Mangaluru coast. Sea Dragon, a Liberia-registered 230-metre long LPG carrier, was cruising from Singapore to Fujairah, UAE, yesterday when it reported that boilerman, Hong Jiangyu had suffered an injury on the index

New York, May 17: Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani leads a Forbes list of 'Global Game Changers' who are transforming their industries and changing the lives of billions of people around the globe. Forbes' second annual Global Game Changers list includes 25 "intrepid business leaders" who are "unsatisfied with the status quo" and "transforming their industries and changing the lives of

Lucknow, May 17: An IAS officer was found dead under mysterious circumstances on the roadside in Lucknow's Hazratganj area this morning. Anurag Tiwari, a 2007 batch Karnataka cadre Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, was staying at a guest house in the area for the last two days. His body was found near the guest house. AK Shahi, Inspector of Hazratganj Police Station, said some passers

Bengaluru, May 17: A?group of 51 progressive seers on has met Karnataka Chief Minister and impressed upon him to enact the proposed anti-superstition Bill at the earliest. The delegation, led by Nidumamidi Mutt seer Veerabhadra Channamalla Swami, met Siddaramaiah at the latter’s residence on Tuesday and said that enacting the Bill was necessary to prevent cheating of innocent people in the name of

Bengaluru, May 17: A day after the arrest of senior IAS officer Gangaram Baderiya for allowing a mining company to lift iron ore after receiving a bribe of Rs 10 lakh through cheque, JD(S) leader and former chief minister H D Kumaraswamy has filed an anticipatory bail application in the same illegal mining case. Kumaraswamy filed the application before the Lokayukta Special Court seeking interim

Bengaluru, May 17: Accusing Karnataka’s Congress government of weakening the Lokayukta, BJP?state president B S Yeddyurappa has said that Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and many of his Cabinet colleagues would have been in trouble with an array of charges against them if the Lokayukta was stronger enough. Addressing a press conference in Bengaluru, Yeddyurappa blamed the chief minister for

Shivamogga, May 17: The ransomware infection, which has created havoc across the world, hit the laptop of a computer science lecturer of PES Institute of Engineering and Management here on Tuesday. Arjun U., serving as an associate professor, said that the files in his laptop were found encrypted in the morning and had become inaccessible. The message demanding 300 U.S. dollars for unfreezing the

Hubballi, May 17: Former chief minister and Leader of Opposition in the Legislative Assembly Jagadish Shettar charged that the Siddaramaiah government has not taken steps to fulfil its promise of taking action against all involved in illegal mining. Speaking to media persons here Shettar said that SIT has now arrested IAS?officer Gangaram Baderiya as it had no other option after the Supreme Court

Bengaluru, May 17: History-sheeter V?Nagaraj, who was recently arrested in the cash seizure case, has reportedly earned about Rs 50 crore after demonetisation by charging commission for exchanging banned notes and through extortion. “Many businessmen would approach Nagaraj for exchanging demonetised notes by giving him a commission. Many a time, Nagaraj used his henchmen, armed with baseball clubs

New Delhi, May 17: The Supreme Court of India has questioned internet messaging service WhatsApp over its privacy policy, saying the tenor of its 2016 user licence policy seemed to indicate the company was undermining the right of free communication. A five-judge Constitution bench presided over by Justice Dipak Misra said the court would intervene to ensure the rights of citizens to communicate