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

MANGALURU: Under fire from the speaker Kagodu Thimappa for supposedly having given wrong information to the state assembly, U T Khader, minister for health and family welfare has striven to put the records straight. Khader in a letter to the Speaker has clarified that he has not furnished any wro

BJP national president Amit Shah said on Saturday that he came to the city to free Karnataka of the Congress rule and to review the party's ongoing membership drive. In a 30-minute interaction with the media, a major part of which he devoted to the Modi government's achievements, Shah credited the S

The Central Crime Branch police arrested three persons who went around cheating people by selling what they claimed was red mercury, used in preparation of nuclear bombs. The arrested are Manikanthan and Mohammed Haneef from Hosur, and Nagaraja of Hoskote, all real estate agents. While Nagaraja h

BENGALURU: With clues from ground zero not providing enough leads, city police have got down to brass tacks to unravel the labyrinthine network of terror groups they suspect was involved in Sunday's subversive act on Church Street. Investigators are screening all activists of homegrown terror gro

NEW DELHI: Even as central investigators visited the bomb blast site in Bengaluru, probe has been expanded to several cities in search of possible leads into the Sunday attack in IT city. Some sources said there is indication that the dampness caused by the rain may have contributed to reduction

MANGALURU: A foundation stone laying ceremony for new Mini Vidhan Soudha was held in the city more than seven years ago by the then chief minister HD Kumaraswamy and deputy chief minister BS Yeddyurappa. However, the work of three-storied Mini Vidhan Soudha is being continued in a snail's pace even

Bengaluru: On March 27 this year, Kaushik Punita Sharma, 40, identified as a realtor, was found hanging in his Vakil Garden residence, Talaghattapura, south Bengaluru. The bodies of his wife Sreelatha, 36; son Kaustubh, 9; and daughter Sreeraksha, 11, were in different rooms. A message written in

The announcement of a special economic zone (SEZ) is invariably surrounded by hype and public statements promising how they could change the face of the economy, but do most SEZs actually live up to the tale that’s told at the start? In Karnataka, for instance, of the 60 approved SEZs, as many as

Bengaluru: Autorickshaws may have gained in the fallout of the recent rape of an MNC employee by a driver of cab aggregator Uber in New Delhi. With operations of some cab agencies suspended in the state, auto drivers are now not only in demand, but the aggregator model is being tried on this transpo

BENGALURU: A company from India's Silicon Valley will have a new account in its hand, thanks to Bengaluru police. The cops are outsourcing the task of analyzing 1.29 lakh tweets on @ShamiWitness, Mehdi Masroor Biswas' pro-ISIS Twitter handle, because they lack the expertise to do the job. The invest