The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is understood to have made a breakthrough in the case pertaining to the mysterious death of 14-year-old schoolgirl Nanditha K B.  While the post-mortem report has not yet been made public, highly-placed sources claimed the girl had consumed a handful of

NEW DELHI: Government is planning to make Aadhaar mandatory for issue of passports and is in the process of establishing a system for validation of criminal antecedents of the applicant. The issue was discussed threadbare at a meeting between the Ministries of the Home and the External Affairs, o

New Delhi: Manohar Parrikar is the new Defence Minister and Suresh Prabhu will head the Railway Ministry Minister in the expansion-cum-reshuffle of the Narendra Modi ministry after 21 new Ministers were sworn-in on Sunday. Parrikar, who quit as Goa Chief Minister to join the Union Cabinet, takes

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has called on his Karnataka counterpart Siddaramaiah here on Monday and discussed issues related to modernisation of high and low level canals of Tungabhadra and sharing of river water. Mr. Naidu requested the Karnataka Government to spare 32 tmc

The action follows the Karnataka High Court’s decision to lift restrictions imposed on the police from filing charge sheets against schools for failing to adhere to safety norms The Bengaluru City police are all set to file charge sheets against over 180 schools that were earlier booked for faili

Minister for Health and Family welfare U T Khader on Wednesday took an accident victim to hospital in his car. The minister, who was on his way back from the Kempegowda International Airport, noticed a traffic jam on Yelahanka flyover. An auto driver, Stalin, a resident of K G Halli, was severly

MANGALURU: The first Haemophilia treatment centre in the country will be launched in Bengaluru next year, said Health Minister U T Khader. He told reporters on the sidelines of a review meeting  at the Government Wenlock Hospital at Hampankatta on Wednesday that Haemophilia and Thalassemia diseas

BENGALURU: Karnataka home minister K J George came under attack from opposition for his controversial remarks that the media highlighted sexual assaults for TRP ratings, even as chief minister Siddaramaiah sidestepped the issue. As George waded into controversy, HP slammed his remarks for shiftin

MANGALURU : Former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda on Wednesday admitted that failure on his part to recognise sincere party workers, who had worked for the party, led to the downfall of the regional party. ``I'm on a party revival mission as elections are still 42 months away,'' said Gowda who wi

The taluk administration, under tight police security, demolished 201 huts along the Karwar beach, constructed illegally by local fishermen to house their fishing equipment, on Sunday. The action was taken following the Supreme Court order to clear encroachments on government lands. Tahsildar Mad

The State government will chalk out a plan to clean River Cauvery along the lines of the Centre’s scheme to clean the Ganges, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said on Monday. Speaking after inaugurating various development works at Gandhi Maidana here, he said many states, including Karnataka, were us

The new water tariff announced by Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) is aimed at encouraging citizens to conserve water. According to Anjum Parwez, BWSSB’s Managing Director, the tariff has been fixed in such a way that it will deter people from wasting water. “Unless people are ec

BANGALORE: Bangalore is now officially Bengaluru and Mysore is Mysuru. 12 of Karnataka's major towns and cities reverted to their old Kannada names today after the Union Home Ministry this month cleared a proposal made by the state nine years ago. It's a birthday gift - Karnataka turned 68 today.

It is now official. The State capital has shed its anglicised name Bangalore. It will be called by a name with a distinct local flavour: Bengaluru. On the eve of the 59th Karnataka Rajyotsava, the government on Friday issued a special gazette notification to change the names of 12 cities and town

A private job consultancy firm operating from Shivajinagar has been found to have duped nearly 13,500 job aspirants across the country, sources in the Central Crime Branch (CCB) claimed. On Wednesday, acting on a tip-off by a job aspirant, sleuths busted Exalt Consulting Placement Services Pvt. L

MANGALORE: The government was committed to provide 24X7 uninterrupted power to Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts as the consumers were zero-defaulters, said power minister DK Shivakumar here on Tuesday. He was speaking after inaugurating the Swarna Soudha, the association building of Electrici

BANGALORE: As government doctors resigned en masse, patients in various hospitals run by the state health and family welfare department were left in the lurch with no one to attend to them. Waiting for long hours and clueless about when the doctors will return to work, many patients were seen arguin

BANGALORE : After government doctors threatened to resign en masse on Monday over wage issues, health minister U T Khader on Friday proposed a hike in salaries for nearly 5,000 doctors of the health and family welfare department. But the medical officers have rejected the proposal and will go ahead