Paving the way to hold the traditional buffalo race of Kambala unhindered, the Karnataka Assembly on Monday passed the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Karnataka Amendment) Bill, 2017. The Bill seeks to exempt the conduct of bullock cart racing also from the ambit of Prevention of Cruelty to Ani

  Chandrajit Banerjee, Feb 13, 2017 Karnataka is hosting the Make in Karnataka Conference from February 13-14, as a part of the overall ‘Make in India’ initiative. The first state to pioneer special investor forums as far back as 2000, it has taken a lead role in attracting investm

Bengaluru: Feb 11, 2017 (DHNS): Higher Education Minister Basavaraj Rayareddy said it is not possible to present pure gold medals to rank students of Bangalore University. If people, including students pay for them, then they will get pure gold medals, he added. He was replying to Lakshminarayan

Mysuru, Feb 12, 2017, DHNS : A suspected sandalwood thief was shot dead by Forest Department personnel within the precincts of Lingambudhi Lake on the outskirts of Mysuru in the early hours of Saturday.  Shankar (32), a resident of Mahadevapura village in HD Kote taluk, was part of a

BENGALURU, Feb 12,2017 (TOI): The Income Tax department on Saturday claimed to have detected undisclosed income worth Rs 120 crore and seized cash worth Rs 1.10 crore and 10 kg of gold after it conducted raids on a Congress MLA here earlier this week. The department had been conducting searches sin

Bengaluru: A five-year-old girl studying in Bengaluru was stripped and body shamed by her class teacher. This came to light when her mother took to Facebook seeking help from others in confronting the issue. She said that ever since she admitted her girl in the East Wood School, she started cryi

TNN | Feb 6, 2017, BENGALURU: Soon, PU students caught buying, selling or transferring leaked question papers will be barred from taking exams for five years, besides facing a fine of Rs 5 lakh. Similarly , teachers or public servants facilitating malpractices may be jailed and slapped with a crimi

BENGALURU: With Bengaluru's Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) clocking a growth rate of 22.5 per cent annum, airport promoter --Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL) -- is gearing up to upgrade the existing runway to facilitate more air traffic movements (ATMs). According to a BIAL

BENGALURU: An undeveloped parasitic twin was separated from a baby in a surgery lasting a little over three hours at the Narayana Health hospital here on January 24. When 23-year-old Lalithamma from Puladinni village in Raichur district conceived for the second time, little did she know that her

A Bengaluru-bound GoAir flight, carrying nearly 190 people, made an emergency landing on Wednesday at the New Delhi airport due to technical issues. The incident happened in the evening and after landing safely, passengers were accommodated in the subsequent flight. There were a total of 184 p

A 17-year-old college girl and a budding model in Bengaluru mustered enough courage to file a complaint against Pragdish Kapoor, an event manager in the city, on the charges of rape. The Ramamurthy Nagar police immediately took action and arrested Pragdish before he could escape from the city. He

Monitoring the fuel stock at depots is the biggest task for transport officials. Many a time, officials enter the wrong numbers in the fuel log book and then scratch their head at the end of the month when there is a mismatch. This situation is the same in all transport cooperatives in the country.

MUMBAI: Strengthening business confidences resulted in net absorption of office space across the top eight cities to 34 million square feet (msf) during 2016, according to international property consultants Cushman & Wakefield.  Of the total uptake of office space, nearly 40% of the total net a

Mangaluru, Feb 7: In a strange incident, Panambur police allegedly abandoned persons, including a woman, who were injured in a family clash in the middle of the road, resulting in a flash protest by the injured as well as locals and activists of Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI). The incid

In a major blow to liquor baron Vijay Mallya, the Karnataka High Court on Tuesday ordered the winding of the United Breweries (Holdings) Limited, the parent company of UB group, for recovering dues payable by the UBHL-promoted Kingfisher Airlines Ltd. (KAL). Justice Vineet Kothari delivered the v

Taking serious note of growing incidences of accidents and glaring violations of helmet and other traffic rules in Belagavi and other cities and towns in the district, Principal District and Sessions Judge R.J. Satish Singh has set a target for the police to register cases through a drive. The ju

Bengaluru: Apparently conveying its dismay over allocations towards Centrally sponsored schemes for the state, the Siddaramaiah government today claimed credit for ensuring their continuity with smooth implementation despite many structural changes in them. “Of late, there have been many change

Shivamogga: ABVP activists demanding to continue the ban against HIJAB that has been lifted following a directive from the varsity. According to Times of India reports, the Sahyadri Science College, affiliate to Kuvempu University on Friday has lifted the restrictions against the Muslim girls’ hija