Bengaluru, Feb 16 (IANS): Karnataka Chief Minister K. Siddaramaiah on Friday presented a revenue deficit state budget for the year 2024-25 with a total outlay of Rs 3.71 lakh crore. Siddaramaiah, who also holds the Finance portfolio, said: "I am presenting a revenue deficit budget... I have

Paytm shares went deeper into the red, hitting its lower circuit of 10  percent on February 14 to touch a lifetime low, as crisis looked far from over for parent One97 Communications. Sources told  CNBC-TV18 that the Enforcement Directorate has initiated preliminary inquiry against Payt

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday said that the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) will be implemented before the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The CAA, which became law in December 2019, aims to provide citizenship to persecuted refugees from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Specifically,

Bengaluru, Feb 5 (IANS): Home Minister will visit Karnataka on February 10 and hold discussion with the state party leadership over the upcoming Lok Sabha election preparations. Karnataka State President B.Y. Vijayendra said that Shah will hold the Lok Sabha cluster meeting of the party.

Hamas has demanded that Israel release 3,000 Palestinian prisoners during their indirect talks on a fresh pause to fighting in the Gaza Strip, Al Arabiya news channel reported on Saturday, citing sources familiar with the talks. Hamas wants the three-stage truce to include the release of Palestin

Bhatkal: 2 February,2024 (Bhatkallys News Bureau) In honor of the 50th-anniversary celebrations of Al Nawayath Abu Dhabi, an Essay Writing and Elocution by Video Clip competition has been announced for Bhatkallys worldwide.  The competition, available in English and Urdu/Nawayathi languages,

New Delhi, Feb 1: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today, February 1 presented the Union Budget 2024 in the Lok Sabha. This was an interim budget as it came just ahead of the Lok Sabha Elections. In her Budget speech, she said that Indian economy has witnessed a profound transformation in th

In a proud moment for Bhatkal, local talent Ibrahim Gulrez has earned a spot in the three-member Indian team competing in the upcoming E-Football Asian Cup 2023 in Qatar. The All India Football Federation revealed the squad, that included national e-football champion Ibrahim Gulrez.   Tea

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder and former prime minister of Pakistan Imran Khan and former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi have been given 10-year prison sentences by a Pakistan court in the controversial Cipher case.  Pakistan's state media and a spokesman for PTI confirme

Doctor at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis tells Al Jazeera that 95 percent of staff have fled to Rafah, as Israeli forces “bomb anything in front of them”. Gaza’s Health Ministry says 174 Palestinians were killed and 310 wounded in the enclave in 24 hours. Thousands fleeing fighti

Bengaluru, Jan 26 (IANS): Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday said that the British were successful in ruling over India for 400 years as our own people hatched conspiracies against their people and land. The Chief Minister warned against the people who are against social change,

Delhi's Chief Electoral Officer has issued a clarification on the date of the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections. Confusion arose, after a notification by the Election Commission of India had informed "tentatively given the Poll Day as April 16, 2024... for the purpose of reference and to calculate S

New Delhi, Jan 20 (IANS): If Lok Sabha and assembly elections are held simultaneously, the Election Commission will need around Rs 10,000 crore after every 15 years to buy new Electronic Voting Machines, the poll body said. The Election Commission of India (ECI) has informed the government t

Sixty-eight Rajya Sabha members, including nine Union ministers, are completing their tenures this year. The elections have already been called for three seats in Delhi and one seat in Sikkim. In Delhi, AAP leaders Sanjay Singh, Narain Dass Gupta and Sushil Kumar Gupta will complete their tenures on

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and senior party leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday flagged-off his ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’ from Manipur’s Thoubal. From Manipur to Mumbai in Maharashtra, the yatra will cover around 6,700 kilometres over 67 days and pass through 110 districts

Bengaluru (Karnataka), January 8, 2024 (ANI): State-owned oil company ONGC has commenced "first oil" production from Krishna Godavari Deep-Water Block 98/2 in the Bay of Bengal, marking new crude discovery in the country. The place where the oil is extracted is 30 kilometres off the coa

 AIUDF chief and MP Badruddin Ajmal on Saturday urged Muslims to stay home and avoid travel from January 20 to 25 in view of the Ram Mandir consecration ceremony in Ayodhya to “prevent any untoward incident”. Addressing a gathering in Assam’s Barpeta, Ajmal termed the BJP a

Four years after the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) triggered massive protests in the country, the government is ready with CAA rules and will likely implement them much before the Lok Sabha elections 2024, a senior government official told news agency PTI on Tuesday. The development comes as the U