Soon after the declaration of byelection results on Thursday, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said he would not only lead the party’s campaign in 2018 but also contest the Legislative Assembly election. He told presspersons here that the Congress would remain in power after the 2018 elections and tha

The impressive victories in Nanjangud and Gudlupet Assembly constituencies have given the ruling Congress in Karnataka a breather, a year before the State goes to the polls. The Congress has been defeated in the byelections in other States and was routed in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections recen

MALPE, April 12,2017:  A  floating boat restaurant in the backwaters of Udyavara rivulet at Padukere, located opposite to the old tourist jetty at Malpe Fisheries Harbour, is likely to come up in the near future. A Rs. 4-crore proposal has been prepared by the Nirmiti Kendra and submitted to the

MANGALURU, April 9,017 (TNN): Railways has decided to introduce train 16575/16576 Yeshwanthpur-Mangaluru Junction-Yeshwanthpur tri-weekly express, inaugural run of which railway minister Suresh Prabhu will flag off at Mangaluru Junction via video-conferencing on Sunday. The inaugural special train

Mangaluru, April 7,2017: Konkan Railway has decided to run additional summer special trains between Mumbai CST – Ernakulam Junction - Mumbai CST  on Konkan Railway Route to clear extra rush of passengers. Train number 01065/01066 Mumbai CST –   Ernakulam Junction – Mumbai CST additional summer sp

Bangaluru, March 29,2017 (DH): The Class X Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC) examination conducted by the Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board (KSEEB) will begin on Thursday, March 30. This year, 8,77,174 students across the state will write the examination at 2,770 centres.

MANGALURU , Marxh 28,2017- The Mangaluru  International Airport will  become  one of the gateways for foreign tourists entering the country with e-tourist visas, an online visa issue system introduced by the Union government. The facility will be made available to foreign tourists from April 1, 2017

BENGALURU, March 26,2017: The Bengaluru-Hassan superfast train, which was flagged off by railway minister Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu at Yeshwantpur Railway Station on Sunday, has been named Gomateshwara Express. Prabhu chose the name after former prime minister H D Deve Gowda suggested that since it p

The trauma of running from one closed ATM to another for cash may be over for most city dwellers, but the agrarian economy — dependent on cooperative banks — is yet to recover from the impact of demonetisation. The District Central Cooperative (DCC) banks, that are a federation of village-level c

Ahead of the State Assembly elections scheduled to be held next year, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Sunday said that the government will take steps to increase the reservation quota in employment and education from the present 50% to 75%. The Chief Minister made the announcement at a programme o

Class 10 Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) students in the State who had opted for Kannada as their second language were stumped when they saw their question paper on Thursday. The paper was riddled with errors as some of the characters in the script were missing. Shobha G., whose

A student, who was on her way to college with her brother, was trampled to death by a wild elephant near Devarapura in Kodagu district on Friday. The victim has been identified as P.M. Safana (20), a second-year B. Com. student of Cauvery College, Gonikoppal. She was the daughter of P.A. Mustafa,

BENGALURU, MARCH 26, 2017  - The Karnataka Cabinet on Friday approved a proposal to raise the retirement age for private sector employees to 60 years from the present 58 years. Schedule – 1 of Karnataka Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) rules 1961 will be amended to give effect to the

The Congress on Saturday submitted a petition to the Election Commission of India seeking criminal proceedings against State BJP president B.S. Yeddyurappa for allegedly violating the poll code of conduct during a campaign in Gundlupet constituency. During the campaign, Mr. Yeddurappa allegedly said

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday flagged off 78 mobile medical units that will provide health services to people living in hilly remote areas, areas which are far-off from the health centres, areas with poor transport connectivity and areas which are mostly inhabited by Scheduled Castes and S

A large procession, dominated by saffron, was taken out on the streets of Harohalli on the outskirts of Bengaluru against the construction of an abattoir in the area. Though the area has seen protests on and off for years citing environmental concerns, this time it was led by Raghaveshwara Bharathi,

Psephologist and leader of Swaraj India Yogendra Yadav has accused the NDA government at the Centre of appeasing the corporate sector by waiving their taxes while not waiving debts of farmers who are victims of agrarian crisis. At a programme organised to merge 12-year-old Sarvodaya Karnataka Pak

BENGALURU, March 24,2017 : Davanagere, Hubballi, Mysuru and Udupi districts are now among the places in Karnataka where aspiring doctors can take the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test. The Central Board of Secondary Education announced on Friday it was increasing the number of exam centres i