Karnataka

Bengaluru, Jun 6: Worried over the continued dry spell and delayed South West monsoon, the Karnataka government has ordered for conducting special prayers and Poojas in the temples, which comes under Muzarai Department on Thursday. According to official sources, the Muzarai Department has released additional funds to all the temples which comes under its administration to offer special Pooja to

New Delhi, Jun 6: Six persons admitted to a quarantine facility at the Government Medical College in Kerala's Ernakulam have tested negative for the potentially deadly Nipah virus, a senior Health Ministry official said Thursday. The condition of the college student, diagnosed with Nipah infection, is stable and a total of 314 persons who were in touch with the infected person have been kept under

Bengaluru, Jun 6: The newly elected BJP MPs from Karnataka are committed to work for protection of Karnataka's interests, Union Minister for Chemicals D V Sadananda Gowda said. "Our top priority is for protecting the interests of people of Karnataka. We commit ourselves for this purpose and will work in this direction. There will be no rift or difference of opinion with the State government when

Bengaluru, Jun 6: A NEET candidate from Hassan and another from Bengaluru have secured spots in the all-India top 50 rankings, helping Karnataka record its presence in the upper rungs after last year’s miss. The results of the 2019 National Eligibility Entrance Test, the gateway for medical and dental courses, were declared on Wednesday. Phaneendra DR, who hails from Hassan, and Bengaluru teen P

New Delhi, Jun 6: Congress leader and former Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday hit out at the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) for not including any Dalit Member of Parliament (MP) from the state in the Union Cabinet. Expressing his angst against the BJP on Twitter, Siddharamaiah tweeted in Kannada to say: "Empowerment of Dalits will not take place only through big talks. In the last

Bengaluru, Jun 6: Barely 24 hours after senior Congress leader R Ramalinga Reddy slammed leaders of his party for the poor show in the Lok Sabha elections, another veteran Congressman, HK Patil, hit out at his colleague, KJ George, over a land deal. Patil criticized the Congress-JD(S) coalition government for selling 3,666 acres of land (2,000 acres in 2006 and 1,666 acres in 2007 at Toranagallu

Alappuzha, Jun 5: Facebook has honoured a 19-year-old student from Kerala for spotting a memory corruption bug on its instant messaging platform WhatsApp, the media reported. K.S. Ananthakrishna, a B.Tech student at Pathanamthitta Mount Zion College of Engineering College, detected the bug that enabled other people to completely remove files on WhatsApp without knowledge of the user, according to

Madikeri, June 5: Three Pre-University students drowned when they went for a swimming in the river Cauvery near Kushalanagara in Kodagu district today. Police said on Wednesday that the deceased were identified as Akasha, Gagan and Shashank and they were studying in Madikeri PU College and they had come to their friend's house in Kushalangara on the eve of Ramzan festival. After food a group of

Bengaluru, June 5: Senior Congress leader and former Karnataka Minister H K Patil today appealed to the AICC President Rahul Gandhi to intervene immediately and pacify the party leaders who have expressed their difference of opinion over functioning of the State unit. Referring to senior leaders and former Ministers Ramalinga Reddy and Roshan Beig expressing their anguish over the functioning of

Shivamogga, Jun 5: Amidst the scorching heat and delayed monsoon across the country, residents of the Vitagondana Koppa village in Shivamogga district are living happily with sufficient drinking water and are easily able to meet the requirements of their livestock. The Vitagondana Koppa village situated near Ayanuru town is an inspiration to many neighbouring villagers. With the help of government