Non-resident Kannadiga (NRK) diaspora could soon get NRK cards that the State government will co-brand with leading banks and corporates. The card will help them avail of special discounts at hotels, jewellery showrooms and hospitals, besides providing speedy services in government departments. T

Dharwad: First female religious leader Jagadguru Mate Mahadevi finds fault with women over increasing sexual assaults in India. According to Coastal Digest reports, the Lingayat spiritual head was reacting to the mass molestation in Bengaluru during the New Year’s Eve celebrations urged the girls

BENGALURU: Hardly a week after the New Year’s eve molestation incidents, another horrific incident has come to light. A Burqa-clad woman was molested by a unknown man as she was on her way to work at 6:30 am in morning. The incident took place on Friday in Bengaluru’s KG Halli area and the ent

Bhatkallys News |  January 7, 2017 MANGALORE,  Jan 6: One of the  ambitious projects of the  Karnataka Beary Sahitya Academy, the Beary- Kannada- English dictionary  will soon become a reality as the entire material  is ready and will be sent to the press next week.&

 Express News Service  |     03  January 2017 KARWAR: Alleging doctors had not given proper treatment to his mother, BJP’s Uttara Kannada MP Anant Kumar Hegde allegedly assaulted doctors and staff of a private hospital in Sirsi on Monday night. [embed]https://youtu.be/Uwpm7TpHW28[/embed] Accord

Bhatkallys News | 3 January 2016 MANGALORE, January 3: Vartha Bharati, one of the  leading Kannada dailies in the region, is gearing up to get into mobile App mode.  Keeping pace with the trend, the newspaper  will launch Vartha Bharati App for Android mobile devices on the Google Play Store on J

BENGALURU: The state government has approved raising female squads specialising in riot control in the Karnataka State Reserve Police (KSRP). Recruitment of women reserve constables is underway, and the foundation stone for the construction of the first women's barracks will be laid on Friday at

BENGALURU: As the state gets ready to welcome the new year, so are 41 IPS officers who have been transferred with immediate effect across the state. In a major reshuffle of the police top brass, chief minister Siddaramaiah has transferred some of the more prominent names from the Bengaluru city p

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has assured a decision on release of Rs. 4,702 crore drought relief to Karnataka for kharif crop loss in 2016 will be taken on January 4, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah today said. An all-party delegation led by Mr Siddaramaiah today called on Mr Modi and requ

As India is gearing up to eliminate malaria by 2030, Karnataka has greater challenges in controlling the vector-borne disease. While the number of positive cases is on the decline, Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts have been consistently reporting the highest cases in the State. However, healt

Local manufacturing is expected to help Apple price its phones more competitively in India as it currently attracts 12.5 per cent additional duty on imports. Bengaluru: Apple is all set to start manufacturing its iconic iPhones in India at Bengaluru, as part of efforts to cash in on the world's s

Bhatkallys News | 28 Dec. 2016 MANGALURU, Dec 28: Southern Railway will construct one more platform at Mangaluru Central station at a cost of Rs. 6.66 crore, its Palakkad Divisional Railway Manager Naresh Lalwani said. Work on the construction of five bays of platform shelters for Central has

Bengaluru: The Income Tax department on Monday said it has detected un-disclosed income amounting to Rs 169 crore after it conducted searches on two groups of realty developers and mall owners here. Officials said the raids on the two groups, that began on December 23, ended today.  “In the firs

Bhatkallys News | 27 Dec 2016 MANGALURU -- Now, people from Mangaluru can fly directly to New Delhi, courtesy Jet Airways which will deploy a Boeing 737 aircraft with 160 seats on the Mangaluru-Delhi-Mangaluru sector. The  services would commence on January 16, according to J.T. Radhakrishna

Bengaluru [India]: Raids are being carried out across the country by the Income Tax Department in the wake of the burgeoning fake currency racket post demonetisation, as currencies both new and old have been seized in large amounts from Bengaluru, Panjim and Faridabad besides the national capital.

New Delhi: Stung by an alleged sex CD scandal, Karnataka Excise Minister HY Meti resigned on Wednesday with government ordering a CID probe into the entire purported episode over the charge that he sought sexual favour from a woman in return for help. Meti’s exit came days after the alleged scand

Bengaluru/Chennai : Taxmen have seized Rs 5.7 crore in new 2,000 notes, Rs 90 lakh in old denomination and 32 kg of gold and jewellery from a secret locker in a bathroom in a Karnataka town, officials said on Saturday, hours after Rs 24 crore, also in new notes, were recovered from a government cont

Police on Thursday searched the Facebook office in Mumbai after the social network failed to share information on the profile of a Mangaluru man who had allegedly posted derogatory content about Hindu goddesses. Mangaluru police had registered a case against the accused, who is on the run, and had b