Karnataka

Bengaluru, Jan 11: Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy, hinting at taking action against his cabinet colleague and Minister for Backward Classe Welfare Puttaranga Shetty, said that he need some more time to ascertain the facts. Mr Shetty had came under cloud after one of his office aid was arrested by the Vidhana Soudha Police, recently for carrying unaccounted cash of over Rs 25 lakhs. The

Bengaluru, Jan 11: The second runway of Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) will be operational from October 1 this year. The south parallel runway, with a length of 4,000 metres, is a CAT III B runway which helps operations of flights when there is poor visibility in winter. Every year, hundreds of flights get disrupted at KIA causing inconvenience to passengers. Yesterday, 48 flight

Bengaluru, Jan 11: The Higher Education Department has learnt that at least nine sexual harassment cases have been registered in State-run universities. The complainants include both students as well as staff members. University of Mysore has reported the highest number of three sexual harassment cases. Department officials, however, pointed out that they did not have records of when these cases

Kochi, Jan 11: Two women who made history by becoming the first in centuries to enter the Sabarimala hill temple in Kerala are in hiding after threats by protesters. The temple has been the site of tension since the Supreme Court ruled in late September to end a ban on women of menstruating age entering it. There have since been sporadic outbreaks of violence between the authorities and protesters

Bengaluru, Jan 11: The Karnataka cabinet Thursday approved the proposal to change the alignment of Metro Rail from KR Puram to the Kempegowda International Airport, which will increase its length by another eight kilometres. The cabinet also gave its nod to a feasibility study on the Rs 23,093 crore suburban rail project in the city. Briefing reporters, cooperation minister Baneppa Kashempur said

Manglauru, Jan 10: Activists of the Nagarika Hitarakshana Samithi, Jokatte, took out a procession holding broomsticks from the Clock Tower to the office of Deputy Commissioner here on Thursday to urge the government to drop the fourth-phase expansion of MRPL. Later they held a protest in front of the Deputy Commissioner’s office holding broomsticks and demanded action against the company for, what

Bengaluru, Jan 10: K Gopalaiah, the Janata Dal (Secular) MLA from Mahalakshmi Layout in Bengaluru is reportedly under scanner following the murder of a 32-year-old man, who had eloped with former’s 18-year-old niece her two months ago. Manu R, who was a rowdy-sheeter, was found brutally murdered in Tumakuru district on Tuesday morning. He had posted several videos on social media days before his

Madikeri, Jan 10: Dharmasthla Dharmadhikari Veerendra Heggade distributed Rs 8 crore as relief to 1106 victims affected in flood and landslide of Kodagu district on Thursday. Following the natural calamity in August last year a survey was undertaken by the Srikehstra Grama Abhivruddhi Yojana to identify the victims for distribution of relief. Relief was distributed to other victims also. As per

Kozhikode, Jan 10: Fousiya Hassan, one of the accused in the faulty-and-framed ISRO spy case, has demanded compensation. The Supreme Court had recently awarded compensation for the prime accused and then-senior Scientist of ISRO, Nambi Narayanan, in the light of finding the espionage case was fabricated. Fousiya was among the two women who were booked in the case as spy woman along with Mariyam

New Delhi, Jan 10: Congress president Rahul Gandhi is facing a lot of flak following his sexist comment targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman over the Rafale deal. The Congress chief, had at a rally in Rajasthan on Wednesday, mocked that PM Modi had a 'mahila (woman) 'defend him during the Rafale debate in the parliament follwoing which he faced a lot of