Mumbai: The Indian Coast Guard rescued seven fishermen from the fishing boat Manjeshwari, which was in distress due to flooding, off Mangalore on Tuesday. Fishing boat Manjeshwari, a 27-feet Gillnet boat, had sailed out from old Mangalore Port at about 9:00 am on 7 June 2017 and was heading towar

As many as 206 boys, aged between 8 and 13, were detained for nearly seven hours on Tuesday at the Cantonment railway station in Bengaluru after police were led to believe they were victims of human trafficking, IANS said. The Railway Police Force, who suspected the children were being trafficked fr

Bengaluru: Two months after missing the deadline, Karnataka cabinet today approved rules under the new real estate regulation act that aims to protect home buyers. Karnataka Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Rules, 2016 was approved by the cabinet today, Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minster

Mumbai: Global healthcare company GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals Ltd is investing Rs 1,000 crore in a new state-of-the-art pharmaceutical unit in Karnataka and is looking at enhancing its global pipeline in areas like respiratory drugs and vaccines in India. “We are investing Rs 1,000 crore in a

Bengaluru: A three-day Babasaheb B.R. Ambedkar international conference on social justice will be held in Bengaluru from July 21 to 23, an official statement said here on Saturday. “The conference will unveil the ‘Bengaluru Declaration’ outlining specific constitutional, institutional and policy

Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India]: In the wake of the killings of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) workers in Karnataka, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, on Monday said, the “communal goons” need to be strictly watched. While addressing a press conference, after a review meeting with the state police de

A man from Solapur in Maharashtra has been arrested on the charge of duping several people in Karnataka and Maharashtra by impersonating as the Superintendent of Customs and Central Excise. Hubballi-Dharwad Police Commissioner Pandurang Rane told presspersons here on Saturday that Siddappa Shival

Union Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda has lashed out at Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, saying that the latter should work as the Chief Minister of the State and not as a Congress functionary. Speaking to reporters in Tumakuru on Saturday, Mr.Sadananda Gowda said that though there was turbulence in Da

Mangalore: Stones were pelted at the funeral procession of RSS activist Sharat at Kaikamba near BC Road on Saturday afternoon. The 28-year-old Sangh activist was brutally assaulted by unidentified persons on July 4. He was admitted to a private hospital where he succumbed to his injuries on Friday n

Bangaluru, June 18,2017: Japan has reiterated its keenness to take up the high-speed train project between Bengaluru and Chennai. Japan’s Ambassador to India Kenji Hiramatsu, who met Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday, stated that Japan was keen to expand the high-speed rail network in India

Bengaluru, June 18,2017: To the cheers of hundreds – some of whom jumped on for a joyride - the spanking new Bangalore Metro coaches zoomed out of the swank Sampige Road Mantri Square station on Saturday, arriving at Yelachenahalli metro station stop a mere 25 minutes later.  A route tha

In an incident that has belatedly come to light, a person who was transporting two cows, with valid documents, was allegedly beaten up by four persons belonging to a right-wing group at Gulvady village in Udupi district on Friday. Neelakantha, 44, from Holebenolli village near Tirthahalli in Shiv

With many vehicle owners refusing to honour notices for traffic offences, the city police will soon launch a campaign to recover the penalties by seizing the vehicles either on the roads or by visiting their houses. Over the last few days, the police have been booking people for traffic offences

Facing flak from within the party for his remarks on cow slaughter and beef consumption, BJP’s Karnataka spokesperson Vaman Acharya on Monday retracted his statement and apologised “if people were hurt”. At a panel discussion on a Kannada news channel, he said beef consumption was common among al

Bengaluru: Scare of plastic rice, egg and sugar has created panic among the residents of Karnataka after two different incidents of plastic rice and sugar came to light in last two days. As reported by Dailyhunt, Shivakumar a railway employee lodged a complaint against a kirana shop owner on ol

The Transport Department, keeping safety and space concerns as priorities, has decided not to register new Maruti Omni vans as Emergency Response Service Ambulances from now on. While many individual operators have decried the move, some have welcomed it saying safety is the prime concern. Tho

There’s a good news for lakhs of students belonging Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes categories. Henceforth they can travel from their house to school/colleges in buses operated by government-run corporations free of cost. Chairing the meeting of the Karnataka Scheduled Caste Sub-Plan and Sc

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah threw broad hints on the subject of farm loan waiver, saying he would take an appropriate decision “at the right time”. The government has been under intense pressure from the Opposition to waive farm loans, and the issue is likely to dominate the legislature session star