BENGALURU: Observing that village panchayats across the state are acting like 'super governments', the high court on Friday said the government needs to rein them in before the situation goes out of control. "These panchayats are issuing all kinds of licences though they don't have any power. You

BENGALURU: Continental AG, the 34.5 billion global automotive conglomerate, will double the headcount at its research and development division in Bengaluru in the coming years. The India R&D centre works across a number of the company's divisions, the third such `crossdivision' centre after thos

MANGALURU: Dakshina Kannada district achieved an overall 99.85% success in the four-day intensified pulse polio immunization programme that concluded on Wednesday. Pulse polio drops were administered to 1,68,223 children out of 1,68,479 children in the target age group of zero to five years in the d

MANGALURU: Growing influence of drugs and alcohol on Gen Y is on the radar of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad. The student body's nationwide campaign 'Nasha Mukth Bharath' aims at awakening the youth to the perils of drug consumption. It also seeks to address another major problem -- the i

Bengaluru: A 17-year-old II PU student shot himself in the forehead with his father's licensed gun in his Doddabommasandra residence, off Tumkur Road, North Bengaluru on Monday afternoon. Jitendra Chandrashekar, the only son of former Border Security Force soldier Chandrashekar and gas agency emplo

MANGALURU/UDUPI: The first day of four-day nationwide pulse polio immunization drive carried out in Dakshina Kannada district saw 1,49,332 out of 1,68,479 children in the target age-group of zero to five years administered polio drops in the five taluks as part of the booth level activity. The overa

31st March 2015 is the last date for LPG Subsidy by which you will have to submit the required documents to your distributor online or offline to avail this scheme.  This is the grace period of LPG Subsidy. Since LPG Subsidy scheme has been officially stated from 1st January 2015. Even if you hav

The Bengaluru police's Bhatkal crackdown came under a shadow on Saturday with the lawyer of a suspected Indian Mujahideen (IM) operative claiming he had been framed for his activism. High court lawyer Md Sultan Beary represents Dr Syed Ismail Afaq, who was arrested earlier this month in connectio

Bengaluru: An observation in the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) report of 2010 that the state government should collect rentals from the Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA) and Bangalore Golf Club (BGC) for allowing them to use prime land will be executed soon. Both organizat

MANGALURU: The health and family welfare department has identified 24,000 high-risk areas in the state, which have more migrant labourers, for effective implementation of the Pulse Polio Immunisation Drive 2015. The department set a goal of administering polio drops to 75.94 lakh children below f

BENGALURU: Delhi has asked cab aggregators to obtain licences under radio taxi laws. And Kolkata wants them to register under the Information Technology Act 2000. The Karnataka government wants to go the Delhi way but aggregators want a separate law for themselves. Transport commissioner Rame Gow

Hassan, Jan 15, 2015, DHNS:The residents of Hale Alur might have not bothered to take a second look at a century-old red-tiled house, on its way to ruins. After television channels flashed headlines that A S Kiran Kumar, a Kannadiga and a native of Alur taluk, Hassan district, had been named the

MANGALURU: Cold wave conditions will prevail over some parts of interior Karnataka until January 14. Uppinangady hobli in Puttur taluk of Dakshina Kannada district recorded maximum temperature of 41°C on January 12 at 1.45pm. Halburga hobli in Bhalki taluk of Bidar district recorded lowest minimum t

Mangaluru: A social organisation run by Bhatkal Muslims has demanded that police and the NIA, who claimed to have seized explosives from a few suspects with terror links from Bhatkal in Uttara Kannada district, should come clean on certain issues, including why they did not take the local people int

The ban on the movement of heavy goods vehicles on Bengaluru’s roads from 6 am to 10 pm has badly affected the supply of vegetables, traders and market associations say. The ban, imposed by the traffic police from January 1 onwards, may have reduced the burden on the roads but angered vegetable tra

BENGALURU: The three suspected Indian Mujahideen (IM) operatives arrest-ed with a cache of explosives and communication devices were on Friday remanded in police custody by a special court till January 21. Syed Ismail Afaq, 34, Saddam Hussein (in pic), 35 and Abdus Subur, 24 were arrested from Co

Bengaluru: Input from a central intelligence agency woke Bengaluru police up a little after Wednesday midnight. Armed with names of suspects, location and what to expect at their hideouts, two police teams headed to Cox Town in Bengaluru and Bhatkal. An apartment complex in Cox Town was kept unde

UDUPI: The only roadblock to the 30 JnNURM-funded KSRTC buses in Udupi city limits has been cleared. At a Regional Transport Authority (RTA) meeting on December 30, deputy commissioner and RTA chairman R Vishal has given permission to 34 buses, including 30 central government's Jawaharlal Nehru N