Bangalore: With the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates reporting a good number of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)  cases, screening centres at the Bangalore and Mangalore International airports  will be opened any time now. The government of Karnataka, cognizant of the

Representational Photo In an effort to weed out bogus caste and income certificates, the revenue department plans to introduce a paperless certification system in the State.  It is looking at making all the 34 certification services completely online and discourage paper transactions. It is pr

In a bid to retain doctors and attract more specialists to government hospitals, the health department is planning a substantial hike in their salaries. Addressing a press conference in Bangalore, Health Minister U T Khader said the department has proposed to increase the salaries of MBBS doctors

Mangalore : A youth was chased and stabbed to death by a group of assailants  near Kudru Kallurti Temple at Urva on May 22, Thursday. The deceased youngster is Sanjay alias Varun. He is the son of one Jagadish who is known as Talwar Jagga. According to the police sources, one of the assailants

After the fliers’ gave a thumbs down in the second half of 2013, the Mangalore airport has bounced back this year by improving its standing from a dismal 27 to 14 in an official survey of 51 small airports. According to the bi-annual Customer Satisfactory Survey conducted by Airports Authority of

Karnataka has registered an exceptional pass percentage of 99.89 in the Class X examination of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), the results of which were declared late on Monday.  The pass percentage of girls is 99.97 per cent, while for boys it is 99.84 per cent. As many as 26,59

Heavy rain accompanied by lightning claimed eight lives across the State on Monday. Four persons died on the spot after the wall of an under construction godown collapsed following incessant rains in Kaginelli village of Shikaripur taluk in Shimoga district.  The deceased have been identified

The Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) has planned to convene a meeting of its senior leaders to review the policies and populist schemes of the Siddaramaiah dispensation, following criticisms that they failed to make an impact on voters in the Lok Sabha elections.  The decision comes at

Udupi: A 42-year-old chicken stall owner is still to figure out why he was knocked out by a group at Hoode on Saturday evening May 17. A group of seven people, for no particular reason, allegedly assaulted a man named Mohammed Ais, a resident near Hoode fish market. He is an ordinary chicken stal

The last-minute efforts by the Congress to pacify senior leader C K Jaffer Sharief failed on Wednesday as he refused to change his decision to quit the party.  Congress candidate from Bangalore North Lok Sabha constituency C Narayanaswamy met Sharief at his residence, seeking his support on the e

Mangalore: Karnataka has voted with a vengeance and ousted the Congress. Out of the 28 Lok Sabha constituencies, the Congress has managed to win only eight seats - Bangalore Rural, Chamarajanagar, Chitradurga, Davanagere, Gulbarga, Kolar, Raichur, Tumkur. Two are with the JDU, while the rest 18 are

BANGALORE: Initial trends in Karnataka showed the BJP leading in at least 17 of the 28 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state. "Of the 26 seats for which trends are available, the BJP is ahead in 17, Congress in seven and Janata Dal-Secular (JD(S)) in two," a poll official told IANS. In Bangalo

BJP was leading in five Lok Sabha constituencies and the ruling Congress in the state in four, as initial trends for nine of the 28 seats in Karnataka showed. BJP was ahead in Chikkaballapur, Dakshina Kannada, Dharwad, Raichur and Shimoga and the Congress in Bangalore North, Belgaum, Chitradurga

Mangalore: Three persons lost their lives while another person sustained critical injuries in a head-on collision between an autorickshaw and a lorry near Suratkal in the outskirts of the city on Monday May 12 morning. The mishap took place in front of the Suratkal Padre Dhoomavathi Daivasthana.

Udupi : "Respected CM, if you can provide sufficient electricity only then rule the state or else its better you resign and go”, said former minister Shobha Karandlaje who contested the LS polls from Udupi-Chikmagalur constituency. Speaking to the media during her first visit to the district afte

Mangalore: The Karnataka Lokayukta on Thursday May 8 raided  the offices of three officers  of the Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) and found cash worth Rs 1.52 lakh, which was disproportionate to their known sources of income. All the three officers have been arrested and are expected t

The oft-repeated phrase 'running from pillar to post’ (depicting the plight of the common man who is made to approach one authority after the other for availing services) may well be on its way out. A plan to deliver a number of government services electronically to the public in the State under

Copious rains in catchment areas pushed the water storage in the Tungabhadra reservoir by one tmc feet on Friday while heavy rains battered parts of North Karnataka on Thursday night. The inflow into Tungabhadra reservoir near Hospet in Bellary district increased to 3,896 cusec pushing up the wat