Karnataka

Bengaluru, Feb 8: Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy today announced formation of four new taluks in the State in his Budget presented for 2019-20. He said that the four new taluks, which would be established during the year are Harohalli (Ramanagaram district), Chelur (Chikkaballapura), Theradala (Bhagalkot) and Kalasa (Chikkamagaluru). He said that there was a long pending demand from the

Bengaluru, Feb 8: Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy today announced allocation of Rs 5 crore to the Department of Information towards celebration of 150th Birth Anniversary of Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi. In his presentation of the State budget for 2019-20 in the Legislative Assembly, he said that the Department of Information will chalk out programmes to mark the birth anniversary

*Grant of Rs 40 crore for the work of laying of pipeline for utilizing 40 M.L.D water being carried to Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board under K.C. Valley project *Action of operationalisation of Bidar airport. Rs 32 crore grant for construction of new terminal building in the year 2019-20 *A grant of Rs 100 crore to construct security barriers across the tanks, canals and other water

Mangaluru, Feb 8: Apart from announcing extension of metro rail link in Bengaluru, the Karnataka state budget presented today by chief minister H D Kumaraswamy has promised to conduct a viability studies for building metro rail projects other cities such as Mysuru, Mangaluru and Hubballi-Dharwad. Considering the decadal gap between viability studies and the actual implementation of the project in

Bengaluru, Feb 8: Cracking the whip, the Congress on Friday decided to initiate action against four party rebel MLAs under the Anti-defection law, CLP leader Siddaramaiah said. Briefing reporters after the CLP meet, Siddaramaiah said he would meet the Assembly speaker Ramesh Kumar and urge him to take action against Ramesh Jarkiholi, Umesh Jadhav, Mahesh Kumathali and B Nagendra. He said barring

Mangaluru, Feb 8: The second edition of the IT Cricket Bash, organised by Atlantic Leisure at the NMPT Grounds recently saw Infosys making a clean sweep of the limited-overs tennis ball cricket tournament. Infosys 'B' emerged the overall champions, while Infosys 'A' had to be content with the 2nd place. Atlantic leisure is a trust backed by Atlantic Data Bureau Services (ADBS), Mangalore-based

Bengaluru, Feb 8: Karnataka CM HD Kumaraswamy on Friday presented the state budget even as the rebel Congress MLAs remained incommunicado, prompting senior leader Siddaramaiah to raise demand for suspension of the dissenting legislators. "Will petition before the assembly speaker to suspend the four dissenting Congress MLAs," he said. Four rebels and a few other disgruntled legislators of the

Bengaluru, Feb 8: BJP Karnataka president B S Yeddyurappa on Friday rubbished as "fake" and "a concocted story" audio clips released by state chief minister H D Kumaraswamy about his alleged bid to lure an MLA to topple the Congress-JD(S) government. Shortly after Kumaraswamy released the clips, Yeddyurappa said he had not met anyone to woo JD(S) lawmaker Nagana Gouda as alleged and that the

Bengaluru, Feb 8: Ahead of the state budget, Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy on Friday morning removed disgruntled Congress MLA Dr Umesh Jadhav from the post of the chairman of the Warehouse Corporation. Pratap Gowda Patil will be replacing Jadhav. Meanwhile, Congress MLA from Raichur Basanagouda Daddal has been appointed as the chairman of Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development

Udupi, Feb 8: The police have arrested two persons in connection with the January 26 double murder at Mannur in Kota of Udupi district. Superintendent of Police Laxman Nimbargi on Thursday confirmed the arrest of two persons and gave their names as Rajashekhar Reddy from Kota and Ravi, alias Medical Ravi, from Tallur. The two were arrested in Madikeri. Police sources said that they have