Karnataka

Mangaluru, Sept 18: The Indian Coast Guards today rescued as many as 23 crew members on board a fishing vessel which had gone adrift due to engine failure. 23 fishermen, who had set sail from Bhatkal, were drifting in the high seas after their engine developed a technical snag. Karnataka state Coastal Security police who picked up the distress signals from the adrift fishermen, contacted Indian

Bengaluru, Sept 18: A division bench of the Karnataka high court on Tuesday dismissed as not maintainable a batch of writ appeals filed by former minister DK Shivakumar and four others in relation to summons issued by the Enforcement Directorate in a money-laundering case. The bench, headed by chief justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka, granted interim protection from arrest for four weeks to four aides

Bengaluru, Sept 17: Fulfilling a long standing demand of the people of Hyderabad Karnataka region, Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Tuesday announced that it has been renamed as 'Kalyana Karnataka' and a separate secretariat would be established for its development. Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Tuesday announced that the Hyderabad-Karnataka region has been renamed as 'Kalyana

Bengaluru, Sept 17: Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa participated in a tree-day celebration here on Tuesday, which had been organised to mark the birthday of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Chief Minister Yediyurappa was accompanied by Deputy Chief Minister Ashwath Narayan in the programme. Speaking to ANI, Narayan said: "It is a day to celebrate Prime Minister Narendra Modi's birthday. He is

Bengaluru, Sept 17: Karnataka Revenue Minister R Ashoka Tuesday said the state has reduced its flood damage estimate by Rs 3,290 crore RPT Rs 3,290 crore after the union government objected to inclusion of private buildings that were affected. "We had sent estimates, including private building losses...like private hospitals, schools. So today we are sending (flood damage estimate) after revising

Kozhikode, Sep 17: Noted Mappilapattu singer and lyricist M Kunhimoosa died here early on Tuesday. He was 91. A popular singer of Mappila songs of the erstwhile Malabar region, the veteran artist came into the limelight of the music world with the support of the popular Malayalam music director K Raghavan Master. He was an artist of the All India Radio. One among his eight children, Thajudheen

Bengaluru, Sept 17: The winter session of the Karnataka legislature will be held here at 'Vidhana Soudha', the state secretariat and not in Belagavi, as is the practice, as most parts of the district have been ravaged by floods, Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa said here on Tuesday. He said the Belagavi Deputy Commissioner and the district administration had informed him that they were not in a

New Delhi, Sept 17: A Delhi court Tuesday sent Karnataka Congress leader DK Shivakumar, arrested in a money laundering case by the ED, to judicial custody. The Delhi court has sent Shivakumar to judicial custody till October 1. Special judge Ajay Kumar Kuhar directed the Enforcement Directorate to take Shivakumar to hospital first and see whether the doctor suggests admitting him there. The probe

Bengaluru, Sept 17: Embarrassed over BJP sumpremo’s threat to impose Hindi language in South Indian states, Karnataka chief minister B S Yediyurappa has resorted to damage control mode. The southern states have traditionally resisted the exclusive use of Hindi, seeing it as a cultural imposition by north Indians. This time, the opposition Congress and the Left have also joined the fray. "As far as

Kalaburagi, Sept 17: Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Tuesday promised a separate Secretariat for the Kalyana-Karnataka region to focus on the development of the region. The Hyderabad-Karnataka region is being renamed as Kalyana-Karnataka after the Karnataka government gave its approval for the same on Friday. "Hyderabad-Karnataka region is being renamed as Kalyana-Karnataka today. It was a long