Karnataka

Udupi, Jan 12: IUT Bangladesh and a team from Poland, AGH Space Systems, did well in the tasks scheduled on the second day of the second edition of the Indian Rover Challenge at MIT grounds here on Friday. Both were leading in a task each after the completion of two tasks. Warsaw Rover, the second Polish team in the fray, managed to participate with a rover assembled overnight at the MIT workshop

Hassan, Jan 12: JD(S) supremo HD Deve Gowda has indicated his party is willing to field candidates in less than 10 constituencies and give up the rest to the Congress, its coalition partner at the state level, during this year’s Lok Sabha elections. Some JD(S) leaders had indicated that they would demand at least 12 seats and even threatened to go it alone if their demand was not met. However

Dubai, Jan 11: Indian National Congress supremo Rahul Gandhi's maiden public event in the UAE witnessed immense fanfare and made nearly 30,000 crowd feel excited and hopeful for the future of India. Thousands waited outside as gates were closed after the stadium was filled. There was a massive tailback around the area even an hour after Gandhi addressed the crowd as people made their way out of

Dubai, Jan 11: India’s Congress party president Rahul Gandhi began his two-day visit to the UAE by meeting hundreds of Indian workers at the Mujamel workers accommodation in Jebel Ali on Friday morning. Later Gandhi attended an interactive meeting organised by the Indian Business and Professional Council in Dubai. Around 200 invited Indian business leaders and professionals attended the function

Dubai, Jan 11: Rahul Gandhi, the President of the Indian National Congress, arrived in Dubai on Thursday night for his two-day tour of the UAE. On Friday, he visited the workers' accommodation at Jebel Ali industrial area. He made his first speech and had conversations with the blue-coloured workers. Dubai International Cricket Stadium filled up with tens of thousands of people from several states

Bengaluru, Jan 11: Ten-year-old Kaushal Kumar from Bengaluru in Karnataka became the youngest scuba diver in the world breaking earlier records achieved by Partha Sanghvi and Tammanna Balachandran. Kaushal set the new record on his birthday on January 9 at Grande island in Goa under the watchful eyes of his instructor Venkatesh Charloo. "He did his pool training session in the morning and

Bengaluru, Jan 11: All the sitting Congress MPs in Karnataka, including Former Union Ministers M Veerappa Moily and K H Muniyappa are likely to get ticket for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, KPCC Working President Ishwar Khandre said on Friday. Addressing a press conference here, Mr Khadra said that the Members, who had got elected in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, weathering the Modi wave, are

Hassan, Jan 11: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which has lost the faith of the people of the country, has now resorted to dole-out 10 per cent reservation to the economically backward people in the country, former Prime Minister and JDS Supremo H D Deve Gowda said here on Friday. Speaking to newsmen, Mr Gowda said that “Union government is facing the erosion of its support base and in an

Mangaluru, Jan 11: The NITK Karavali Marathon to be held on the 13th of January 2019 has got high registrations and over 2000 enthusiastic runners are expected to participate in the run. The Marathon (42.2 kms) is fully organised by the NITK students with support of NITK Surathkal Alumni Association. The event also consists of half marathon (21.1 kms) as well as 10km, 5kms and 3km runs. The run is

New Delhi, Jan 11: Actor Prakash Raj, who recently announced his decision to contest the Lok Sabha elections as an Independent candidate from Bengaluru Central, met Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal here on Thursday. After the announcement last week, the AAP had offered support to Mr. Raj, who has been open in his criticism of the Narendra Modi government. In