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Immersion of idols banned in Cauvery till September 9

Whirlpools and deep pits formed on the riverbed of the Cauvery, and huge quantum of water being discharged from Krishnaraja Sagar (KRS), have prompted the district administration to ban the immersion of Ganesh idols in the Cauvery near Srirangapatna till September 9. Bathing ghats and some other

AAP to launch campaign for national policy on agriculture

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will launch a nationwide campaign to pressure the Union government to announce a national policy for agriculture, AAP leader and Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi Manish Sisodia has said. Addressing presspersons here on Sunday, Mr. Sisodia said that this campaign will be launch

Modi or Shah may launch BJP yatra in Karnataka

In what is being seen as an election campaign in advance, the principal Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has decided to launch a Statewide ‘Parivarthana’ (transformation) yatra, tentatively from November 1. A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of the party’s core committee, hel

Security stepped up at Dera centres in Bengaluru, Mysuru

Security has been stepped at the Dera Sacha Sauda Ashram branches on the outskirts of Mysuru and Bengaluru following the conviction of the cult’s chief, Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, in a rape case and the violence that ensued in parts of north India. Soon after the verdict was announced on Friday, hu

Bidar Municipal Commissioner arrested on corruption charge

The Bidar Market Police on Saturday arrested K. Narasimhamurthy, Commissioner of Municipal Council, and S.M. Hemesh, senior registrar, on corruption charge and produced them before the jurisdictional court which sent them to judicial custody. The arrest comes after a complaint on Friday by Balabh

Ganapathi’s mobile call record details, messages erased: FSL report

Was key evidence related to the death of Deputy Superintendent of Police, Mangaluru, M.K. Ganapathi brushed under the carpet? Ganapathi allegedly killed himself in a lodge in Kodagu last year. A report by the Forensic Science Laboratory, submitted to the Criminal Investigation Department, notes t

Call for voluntary bandh of VTU engineering colleges

Condemning the functioning style of Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), the Students’ Struggle Committee at the varsity under the aegis of All India Democratic Students’ Organisation (AIDSO) have given a call for voluntary bandh of VTU engineering colleges on September 1. S.H. Hanumanth,

Trains to Haryana, Punjab cancelled

Following volatile situation in Haryana, Jammu and Punjab region, the South Western Railway (SWR) has cancelled express trains to Chandigarh and Vaishno Devi on Saturday. Accordingly, train no. 22685, Yesvantpur-Chandigarh Superfast Karnataka Sampark Kranthi Express; Train No. 82651, Yesvantpur-S

90 infant deaths reported at KTK hospital since Jan: report

BENGALURU: Days after the Gorakhpur incident, the Karnataka health department has said 90 infant deaths were reported from a district hospital in Kolar since January, of 1,053 babies admitted. A report in this regard was submitted by the director, health and family welfare services, to the princi

Will not summon or arrest Yeddyurappa till Monday, ACB to HC

The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) of the State on Wednesday gave an undertaking to the Karnataka High Court that it will neither summon nor arrest the former Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa till August 28 in connection with the two cases registered against him on the allegation that he had misused hi

DySP suicide case: BJP demands CBI probe

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has demanded that the episode of alleged suicide of Dy SP M.K. Ganapathi should be handed over to the CBI for a thorough inquiry in the wake of report that Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) has found destruction of some crucial evidence related to the case. Addres

29,000 engineering seats remain vacant in Karnataka

The trend of engineering seats remaining vacant has continued this year too in the State. Over 29,000 engineering seats, of the total 77,500, are vacant. In other words, 37% of the engineering seats in private, government and aided colleges, bagged by students through the Common Entrance Test or the

Supreme Court rejects Sasikala's plea to review judgment in disproportionate assets case

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected jailed AIADMK leader V K Sasikala's review petition seeking re-examination of its verdict holding her guilty in a 19-year-old disproportionate assets case. The review petition filed by Sasikala and two others others - V N Sudhakaran, Jayalalithaa

CM brushes aside BJPs charge of using ACB as political tool

Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah today brushed aside the BJPs allegation that his government was using the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) as a political tool against the opposition leaders, including state BJP chief B S Yeddyurappa. He also asserted that the FIRs filed by the ACB ag

Mining case: Kumaraswamy appears before SIT

JD(S) State president H.D. Kumaraswamy, on Monday, appeared before the Lokayukta Special Investigation Team (SIT) that is probing into the Janthakal Enterprises mining case. He was grilled for over three hours at the SIT Hebbal office. The team is probing the alleged misuse of his office to favou

‘Action will be taken against Cong. leader for misbehaving with MLC’

Karnataka Silk Marketing Board chairman and Congress leader T.P. Ramesh is likely to face action for his alleged indecorous behaviour with a woman MLC at an event in Kodagu last week. Minister for Planning, Statistics, Science and Technology M.R. Seetharam, who is in charge of Kodagu district, to

Samsung India partners with K’taka Government to donate stationery

Bengaluru (Karnataka): Samsung India has collaborated with the Government of Karnataka for a notebook donation drive to extend its support to students from government schools across Bengaluru, Kolar and Mulbaghal districts in the state. A team of volunteers in Bengaluru from Samsung Research and

Karnataka BJP demands Siddaramaiah’s resignation for ‘misusing’ ACB

Bengaluru: Several BJP leaders in Karnataka on Sunday demanded the resignation of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah for “misusing” the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) by forcing it to file “false” cases against opposition leaders, including B S Yeddyurappa, the state unit chief of the saffron party. Those