Karnataka

Mangaluru, May 1: V V Rao has taken charge as the new director of Mangaluru International Airport as the J T Radhakrishna has been transferred in the same capacity to the Calicut International Airport Rao took charge as the airport director from Radhakrishna on Monday. Rao was the airport director at Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport, Amritsar prior to his current posting. Radhakrishna

Bengaluru, May 1: Amid the BJP central leadership's crackdown to end infighting in its Karnataka unit, the party's state president B S Yeddyurappa today said the "confusion" in the organisation's state wing would end in three to four days. "All this confusion will end. It won't repeat again. Our party national president Amit Shah has taken this task, that's the reason Muralidhar Rao (BJP national

New Delhi, May 1: Bank accounts that were opened between July 1, 2014 and August 31, 2015 and are not in compliance with FATCA (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act) provisions will be blocked. The Income Tax Department had set a deadline of April 30 for FATCA compliance for these accounts. "The account holders may be informed that, in case self-certifications are not provided till April 30, 2017

Hyderabad, May 1: Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh has once again triggered a controversy after he claimed that Telangana Police has set up a bogus Islamic State website to radicalise Muslim youth and encourage them to join terror modules. Digvijay tweeted: “Telangana Police has set up a bogus ISIS site which is radicalising Muslim Youths and encouraging them to become ISIS Modules.”

Bengaluru, May 1: After scrapping the controversial Rs 1,800-crore steel flyover project, the Karnataka government now plans to construct underground tunnels to decongest Bengaluru, especially on the Airport Road. Bangalore Development Minister K J George confirmed that officials contacted a Bulgarian firm and sought a feasibility report. The cost of the project is pegged at a whopping Rs 600

Mangaluru, May 1: The connections of the three accused in Karthik Raj murder case with saffron groups including Hindu Hitarakshana Vedike has given has given rise to many suspicions as the Sangh Parivar leaders had made all possible attempts to give communal hue to the issue for past six months. Karthik Raj’s sister Kavyashree along with saffron activists at protest meet Karthik Raj (30), an

Bengaluru, May 1: Passing an interim order the high court has asked the Karnataka Examination Authority (KEA) and the state government not to permit NRI quota in excess of 15 % while making allotment of seats under regulation 9A of the Postgraduate Medical Education Regulations, 2000 for the academic year 2017-2018. A division bench headed by justice H G Ramesh also said that NRI quota should be

Kasaragod, May 1: Laying of gas pipes for a 131-km-long stretch of the Kochi-Koottanad-Mangaluru gas pipeline project is expected to begin within a month as Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) has given the contract for the purpose to a Noida-based company. In a press release, the company said that the expected cost of the work was Rs. 200 crore. M. Viju, project manager, GAIL, said that the

Kalaburagi, May 1: Stressing the need for rapid expansion of medical infrastructure in the country to cater to the growing demand, J.P. Nadda, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, said that 58 new medical colleges will be established across the country by 2018 at a cost of Rs. 11,000 crore. He was delivering a video-address at the convocation of Khaja Banda Nawaz Institute of Medical

New Delhi, May 1: BJP's Lok Sabha member from Gujarat's Valsad has filed a complaint with the Delhi Police alleging that a gang led by a woman has filmed him in an objectionable way. KC Patel told the police that the gang is being operated by a woman, who took him to a house in Ghaziabad. He alleged that the gang has been blackmailing him. The MP alleged that the woman gave him a spiked drink at