State news

Special buses for festival rush

BENGALURU: To meet the festival rush, KSRTC will deploy 500 extra buses from November 10 (Naraka Chaturdashi) to November 12 (Balipadayami). Special buses will run from Kempegowda bus station to Dharmasthala, Kukke Subramanya, Shivammoga, Hassan, Mangaluru, Davanagere, Hubbali, Dharward, Belagavi

Bihar poll verdict has lessons for BJP, Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah

BENGALURU: The resounding victory of the Mahagathbandhan (Grand Alliance) led by Nitish Kumar in Bihar has some pertinent lessons for major parties in Karnataka - the BJP, Congress and JD(S). While the verdict is a wake-up call to the BJP to rein in its hotheads, it's also a message to Siddaramai

11 Indians held in Kuwait for holding 'noisy' puja

MANGALURU: The Indians - most of whom are from the coastal region - are members of the Navachethana Welfare Association, Kuwait. Members of the association, reports say , have been organizing the event for the past decade.This time, it is learnt, they did not apply for permission. Indian amba

Bengaluru: Man booked for cheating trainers promising jobs abroad

BENGALURU: The city police are on the look-out for a person who cheated over 60 soft skill trainers for allegedly taking money from them to train in soft skills abroad and vanished without trace. Venkatsubramanian T, one of the victims, who filed a case against the accused Sharad Soni with Banash

Girl allegedly raped in moving bus near Bengaluru

BENGALURU: A 19-year-old girl was allegedly raped in a moving bus on the outskirts of Bengaluru. The rape allegedly occurred in a mini-bus near Lakondanahalli cross. Police said that the driver asked his bus cleaner to drive the vehicle while he allegedly raped the girl. After committing the c

Bengaluru city station to be renamed as Kranthiveera Sangolli Rayanna soon

BENGALURU: Soon you will have to address the Bengaluru city railway station as Kranthiveera Songolli Rayanna (Bengaluru) station. The state government has proposed ministry of railways to change the name of city station and dedicate it to the legendary warrior and army chief of Kittur under the r

30% of kids in Bengaluru slums underweight: CRY survey

BENGALURU: The anganwadi at a slum in southeast Bengaluru opens at 10.30am, but a group of barefooted children, clad in old and torn clothes throng the premises by 9am itself. The only reason they are here is to begin the day with a morsel of food. But by the time they get the first serving of the d

Karnataka asks US to open a consulate in Bengaluru for ease of Visa

BENGALURU: The State Government has sought for a United States of America Consulate to be established in Bengaluru for ease of Visa process to the "promised land". On Tuesday, at a meeting between Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, Chief Secretary Kaushik Mukherjee and US Ambassador to India Richard Ra

Minister to visit Europe to find solutions to Bengaluru's garbage crisis

BENGALURU: The new Bengaluru minister KJ George said the city's issues are not new to him considering he represents an assembly constituency in the city. In an interaction here on Monday, George said cleaning and developing Bellandur Lake will be a top priority. Bengaluru has a dedicated minister

Swachh Mangaluru Abhiyan completes 25 weeks

MANGALURU: The swachh Mangaluru Abhiyan - organized by Ramakrishna Mission - entered its 25th successful week on Kannada Rajyotsava Day. Inaugurating the 25th abhiyan by lighting the lamp, Swami Nityasthanandaji, acharya, Ramakrishna Math, Belur math highlighted how Indians have neglected hygiene

Suspect who walked away with Rs. 50 lakh found

Police have cracked the case of the sensational theft of Rs. 50 lakh from the van of a cash management firm on M.G. Road with the arrest of a 21-year-old diploma dropout from Doddaballapura. The theft took place on October 21 when the van was parked outside a bank. The youth, Jagadish, was picked

Automatic ticket machines put up at Bengaluru City Rly Station

Passengers using Bengaluru City Railway Station will no longer have to stand in long queues for unreserved tickets. On Thursday, 10 automatic vending machines were inaugurated. Passengers can use smart cards to get tickets from these machines. In addition to the machines, 20 mobile phone charg

Ola Cabs drivers' protest: DC to hold tripartite meet

MANGALURU: Even as the strike of drivers continues to hit the services of Ola Cabs, the district administration has taken note of the issue and has convened a tripartite meeting on October 28. Members of Dakshina Kannada District online Taxi Drivers and Owners Association continue to remain offli

Dreaded gangster Ravi Pujari makes death threat calls to Karnataka ministers

BENGALURU: Minister of State for Fisheries and Youth and Sports, K Abhaya Chandra Jain received a death threat call from dreaded gangster Ravi Pujari on Saturday afternoon. Along with him, it is said even Forest Minister B Ramanath Rai also received a similar such call from Pujari. Speaking to

Yettinahole project an ecological disaster: IISC expert to CM

MANGALURU: The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has officially written to the state government that the Yettinahole project is "unscientific and not feasible". T V Ramachandra, coordinator, Energy and Wetlands Research Group, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), B

Young Dalit writer attacked in Davanagere

A young Dalit writer was attacked by a group of men for his writings against the caste system perceived to be “anti-Hindu” at Davanagere in Central Karnataka on Thursday. The attack comes barely three months after the shooting of writer M.M. Kalburgi – barely 100 km away – and at a time when nume

Contraband worth Rs 30 lakh seized by Customs at MIA

MANGALURU: The past 72-hours was quite busy one for officials of department of customs at Mangaluru International Airport in that they seized contraband of diverse nature valued about Rs 30 lakh. The contraband seized include silver coated gold powder concealed in milk powder, saffron and foreign br

India's first offsite manufactured building gets ready in Deralakatte

MANGALURU: India's first offsite manufactured building gets ready at Yenepoya University campus in the city outskirts. KEF Infra, the infrastructure arm of the Singapore-based KEF Holdings, has completed India's first wholly offsite (factory) made project, a residential project for staff and studen