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Bengaluru cop attempts suicide, poisons wife and kids to death

Bengaluru: A police constable is battling for life after attempting to commit suicide by consuming poisoned food along with his wife and two children, which turned fatal for them, police said here on Tuesday. “City Armed Reserve (CAR) constable S. Subhash Chandra, 35, is in a critical condition at

Police turn to WhatsApp to ensure safety of medical staff

Instant messaging platforms such as WhatsApp have proved their usefulness, with even the police using them to send alerts to citizens. With a rise in attacks on doctors and medical staff by patients and their families, the State police chief has decided to turn to WhatsApp to give medical staff a se

Siddaramaiah writes to Adityanath for thorough probe into Karnataka IAS officer Anurag Tewari’s death

With speculation rife over the circumstances leading to the death of IAS officer Anurag Tewari in Lucknow on Wednesday, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah wrote to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday requesting him to ensure that it is “thoroughly investigated by a competent team of inve

‘BJP-RSS fudging electoral rolls’: Cong. leader

“BJP-RSS workers are eliminating names of Congress voters from electoral rolls by fudging them,” All India Congress Committee secretary and Belagavi division in-charge Manicka Tagore said in Belagavi on Saturday. “That is because their booth-level agents connive with the registration officers and fu

Police can no longer play judge in civil disputes

Police personnel will no longer be allowed to play judge, jury or the proverbial executioner in civil dispute cases, which more often than not trigger bribery and corruption within the force. Director-General and Inspector-General of Police R.K. Dutta, in a circular issued earlier this month, war

No more uniform for PU students

Students of pre-university colleges can rejoice as the Department of Pre-University Education has issued a direction to all colleges that students cannot be asked to wear uniforms. This applies to government, aided and private colleges, and will be enforced from the 2017-18 academic year. In the

Karnataka to cooperate in any probe into IAS officer’s death: CM Siddaramaiah

Bengaluru: 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 on Friday said his government will cooperate in any enquiry into it. Tiwari, a 2007-batch IAS officer serving as com

Official's Arrest In Illegal Mining Case Can Spell Trouble For HD Kumaraswamy

BENGALURU: The arrest of a Karnataka IAS officer earlier this week by a Special Investigation Team or SIT could mean trouble for former chief minister, HD Kumaraswamy of the Janata Dal Secular. The issue - once again - is illegal mining. Revenue Secretary, Gangaram Baderiya, has been accused of i

Kaiga near Karwar  to get two new indigenous N-plants

NEW DELHI, May 18,2017:  The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved setting up of 10 new indigenous nuclear power reactors of 700 MW capacity each, including two at Kaiga in Karnataka. The two reactors at Kaiga are likely to produce electricity for commercial use only by the middle of the next dec

Karnataka cadre IAS officer found dead in Lucknow

Anurag Tiwari, a Karnataka cadre IAS officer who had turned 36 on Wednesday, was found dead outside a government guesthouse where he was staying in Hazaratganj area of Lucknow the same morning. Jai Narayan Singh, DIG, Lucknow Range, told The Indian Express that they are yet to ascertain what caused

Ransomware, cash crunch hits ATMs in Bengaluru

Bengaluru: Hundreds of ATMs across India’s tech hub remained shut for the second day due to possible virus attack by WannaCry ransomware and cash crunch, said a bank official on Tuesday. “Ransomware attack appears to be causing glitches at many ATMs that work on Random Access Memory (RAM). Old

One held for sexually abusing minor in Bengaluru

Bengaluru: A shopkeeper was arrested for alleged sexual abuse of a 10-year-old minor in the city’s southern suburb, police said on Tuesday. “Accused Nataraj, 36, was arrested on a complaint from the victim’s parents on Sunday that he lured their young daughter into his provisions store offering c

6 Rescued Using Ropes After Bus Falls Into A River In Karnataka's Gadag

Five passengers and the driver of state transport bus have been rescued Gadag, May 15,2017 (NDTV): Six people were miraculously saved when their bus fell into an overflowing river in Karnataka's Gadag today. As soon as the bus got caught in the strong current, quick-thinking locals began their resc

‘We have given scam-free governance’: Siddaramaiah

Taking a series of digs at some of the leaders of the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said the BJP had no moral right to comment on a State government that had administered “scam-free governance” in the last four years, and had fulfilled a majority of the promises made

Great Mangaluru robbery: Four employees of cash transfer agency siphon off ₹7.5 crore

In a case reminiscent of the November 2016 incident when driver Dominic Selvaraj absconded with ₹92 lakh meant for an ATM in Bengaluru, four personnel from a cash transfer agency in Mangaluru, allegedly made away with ₹7.5 crore from Axis Bank on Thursday. They were to carry it from Mangaluru to Ben

Stiff competition for coveted seats as PU cut-offs expected to soar

Cut-off marks in some of the most sought after pre-university colleges are set to increase for the academic year 2017-18. Despite the SSLC pass percentage declining this year, college managements who have already received applications state that more students have secured higher ranks this year.

PU Department to redesign subject combinations

To ensure that pre-university students keep abreast of the demands of the market, the Department of Pre-University Education plans to redesign subject combinations. C. Shikha, Director of DPUE, said on Thursday they want to redesign the PU combinations in tune with undergraduate courses and job o

Karnataka records 67.87% pass in SSLC exams

The pass percentage of SSLC exams stands at 67.87 %. Out of the total 8.5 lakh candidates, who appeared to the exam, 5.8 lakh candidates cleared the exam held in March 2017. The results were announced by Primary and Secondary Education Minister Tanveer Sait on Friday. Three students bagged 625/625 m