State news

Good response to pulse polio immunisation drive in DK, Udupi

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

Last date of DBTL LPG Subsidy fixed as 31st March

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

Bhatkal crackdown: Dr Syed Ismail Afaq has been framed by police, claims lawyer

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

KSCA may have to pay almost Rs 1cr rent for using govt land

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 polio drive focuses on high-risk areas

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

Cab aggregators want separate law

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

Isro chairman lived in this tiled house

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

Cold wave conditions to prevail over interior Karnataka till January 14

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

Bhatkal terror raids: Local Muslim body seeks clarification from police, NIA

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

Ban on heavy goods vehicles hitting veggies' supply: Traders

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

Suspects in police custody until January 21

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

Bhatkal, B’luru raids were coordinated

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

JnNURM-funded KSRTC buses set to roll out in Udupi

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

Wrong info given to assembly: Minister writes to speaker

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

Want to free Karnataka of Congress rule: Amit Shah

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

Trio try to sell 'nuke material' for Rs 150 crore

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

Cops seek to mine info from terror suspects in jail

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

Dampness due to rain reduced blast intensity?

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