Karnataka

Mysuru, Jun 13: Over a week after a 38-year-old Dalit man was attacked and paraded naked for allegedly entering a temple in Chamarajanagar district, chief minister HD Kumaraswamy ordered police to bring the guilty to book. After a lull of nine days, police swung into action and arrested four persons for their alleged role in the incident at Kebbekatte, Gundlupet, on June 3. On Tuesday, dalit

Bengaluru, Jun 13: Seven directors of I Monetary Advisory (IMA) Group were arrested on Wednesday in connection with the Ponzi scheme that has ripped off over 20,000 people across the state of hundreds of crores of rupees. The arrests came as the Karnataka government appointed deputy inspector general of police BR Ravikanthe Gowda as the head of the 11-member Special Investigation Team to probe the

Bengaluru, Jun 12: Karnataka Minister for Food, Civil Supplies and Minority Welfare Zameer Ahmed Khan today assured to render justice to those who had lost their money invested in the I Monetory Advisory (IMA), which shut down its business overnight, sending shock wave to thousands of investors. Addressing a press conference here on Wednesday, the Minister, while clarifying that he had no

Bengaluru, Jun 12: India's second sojourn to the moon, Chandrayaan-2, would be launched on July 15, Indian Space Research Organisation announced Wednesday, as it is all set for the most complex mission ever undertaken by it. Under the nearly Rs 1,000 crore mission, the landing on the moon near the South Pole would be on September 6 or 7 on an uncharted territory, ISRO chairman K Sivan said. The

Bengaluru, June 12: True to the indigenous of most complex Space Science Projects and manufacturing of the Spacecraft, the Chandrayaan 2 to be launched on July 15 will have the Indian National Flag on its Lander and the Rover’s wheels is designed on Ashoka Chakra. Briefing news-persons on the launch of the most complex Space programme, ISRO Chairman K Sivan said Chandrayaan 2 depicts the true

Bengaluru, June 12: Continuing their war against corruption, the Karnataka Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) sleuths, have unearthed crores of rupees worth properties illegally amassed by three public servants including a suspended Karnataka University Vice Chancellor. ACB sources said that raids were conducted simultaneously at 11 places including office and properties belonging to suspended Karnataka

Mangaluru, June 12: A 63 year-old farmer and his 32 year-old daughter were electrocuted when they came in contact with live wire in Pilimogaru village of Vamadapavu in Bantwal Rural Police Station limits. Police said on Wednesday that the incident occurred last late evening and victims have been identified as Gopalakrishna, a progressive farmer, was going to his farm along with his daughter Divya

Kalaburgi, June 12: In a gruesome incident, a Father and his two sons were brutally murdered allegedly over land dispute in Medak village of Sedam Taluk in the District today. Police said that the victims were identified as father Mallappa Chinnyya (60) his sons Shankarappa Mallappa (27) and Chinnappa Mallappa (26). It was alleged that cousin brothers of the victims entered the Agriculture land

Bengaluru, Jun 12: Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy, while condemning an alleged incident of parading nude a Dalit in Gundlupet in Chamarajanagar District, directed the Police to take stringent action against the accused. Kumaraswamy, in his tweeter on Wednesday, said that ‘the incident is a most inhuman and directed the police to take action against the accused”. Expressing dismay that

Bengaluru, Jun 12: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday will stage a two-day sit-in from June 14 against the sale of 3,667 acres of land to the JSW Steel in Ballari, the party's Karnataka unit chief B S Yeddyurappa said Wednesday. The protest is also to highlight the "insensitivity" of the Congress-JD(S) coalition government towards the prevailing drought in the State, he told reporters here.