Karnataka

Mangaluru, Feb 27: Customs prevented two attempts to smuggle gold at the Mangaluru international airport recently, according to tweets from Mangaluru Customs. The sleuths arrested a passenger for being in illegal possession of 925.54 grams of 24 carat foreign gold on Monday. The passenger was carrying the gold, which was seized, as mercury coated plates inside the motor of an electronic toy car

Bengaluru, Feb 27: In a gut-wrenching tragedy, two sisters were crushed to death when their scooter was knocked down by a speeding truck before the eyes of their father at Belavangala, Doddaballapura on the outskirts of the city yesterday. The victims are KR Mahalakshmi, 24, and KR Pallavi, 20, residents of Karenahalli village, Doddabelavangala. They were heading to a temple when they were hit

Bengaluru, Feb 27: Facing flak from the opposition BJP in general and from Prime Minister Narendra Modi in particular over the slow pace of writing off farm loans, the government has accelerated the process, so much so that over 10 lakh farmers have benefited from the scheme in less than a month. Data shows the JD(S)-Congress government has released Rs 4,163 crore towards the farm loan waiver

Bengaluru, Feb 27: About half the government-run vehicles in the city will be converted to electric by 2019 end, said state minister for large and medium scale industries KJ George here on Tuesday. “The aim is to replace 50% of petrol and diesel vehicles used by the state government staff in Bengaluru to eco-friendly electric vehicles (EV) by 2019,” he said while speaking at the Future Mobility

Mangaluru, Feb 26: Dozens of people, especially supporters of Bharatiya Janata Party and Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to streets in the coastal city in jubilant mood to celebrate the air strike conducted by the Indian Air Force in Pakistan today. A group of BJP workers gathered in front of Sri Venkataramana Temple on Car Street and raised pro-India and anti-Pakistan slogans. They hailed

Jubail: Freezing weather with huge crowd from Asian countries came together in large number on single platform to play and witness ‘SOCIAL FORUM CUP -2019’ at Al-Falah Ground Al-Jubail from 20th to 22nd February 2019. In spite of freezing weather, cricket fans of various nationalities, classes, languages, cultures and religions were united without any boundaries to witness the fabulous cricket

Bengaluru, Feb 26: Former JD(S) MLA Konareddy was appointed as the Political Secretary to Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy. Mr Konareddy, who was defeated in the 2018 Assembly elections, was one of the prominent leaders of the Northern Karnataka and was in the forefront of the Mayadayi river water agitation.

New Delhi, Feb 26: The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed that MM Kalburgi murder case be transferred to the special investigative team (SIT) probing journalist Gauri Lankesh murder, and the probe to be monitored by the Karnataka High Court Dharwad Bench. Umadevi Kalburgi, wife of noted Kannada writer and rationalist Kalburgi, had filed a plea seeking a SIT probe into the killings of her husband

Hassan, Feb 26: Congress workers in JD(S) bastion Hassan have complained to Urban Development Minister U T Khader that they have been neglected by the coalition government. No officer listened to party workers, despite the party being the partner in the coalition government, they said. The Minister was in Hassan to hold a meeting with the public regarding Hassan Urban Development Authority’s

Bengaluru, Feb 26: Portraying Karnataka as a land of opportunities with assured return on investments, Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy on Monday invited ASEAN businesses to invest in the southern state in a big way. "All those who are not yet present in Karnataka, I invite them to explore trade and business opportunities to invest or expand their operations in the state," said Kumaraswamy at the