Karnataka

Yadgir, Oct 18: Bharatiya Janata Party State president Nalin Kumar Kateel faced embarrassment on Thursday as he appeared to forget that Karnataka has 30 districts and no more. Replying to questions by reporters here, he said after taking charge as the party’s State unit president, he had toured “31 districts in the State before coming to the 32nd district which is Yadgir” for strengthening the

New Delhi, Oct 18: Karnataka has topped the first-ever innovation ranking of states, followed by Tamil Nadu and Maharasthra, a Niti Aayog sponsored report said on Thursday. Bihar, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh, on the other hand, trailed on the list. The India Innovation Index 2019, developed on the lines of Global Innovation Index (GII), looks into the innovation ecosystem of Indian states and union

New Delhi, Oct 18: The Delhi High Court on Thursday castigated the Enforcement Directorate after a junior counsel represented its case for some time due to delay in arrival of a senior law officer during the hearing on the bail plea of Karnataka Congress leader DK Shivakumar. "You cannot play hide and seek with the court," Justice Suresh Kait said, adding, "This is not the way. This is not

Yadgir, Oct 17: Warning Vijayapura MLA Basavaraj Patil Yatnal for not responding to a show-cause notice served to him for tweeting against Prime Minister Narendra Modi over flood relief, Karnataka BJP State president Nalin Kumar Kateel on Thursday said that it is duty of every party worker to answer every notice issued by the party's disciplinary committee. Addressing the media persons here, Mr

Udupi, Oct 17: Two students went for swimming drowned in a river at Kambadakone in Byndoor taluk of Udupi district on Thursday. Police said deceased have been identified as Vamshith Shetty (12) and Rithesh Shetty (12). Both were studying in the seventh standard in Sandeepan English Medium School, Byndoor. It was said that group of four students had gone for swimming in the river in Yeadamavu

Bengaluru, Oct 17: The police have arrested six persons including the Chancellor and an executive of Alliance University in connection with the murder of the varsity’s former vice-chancellor Dr Ayyappa Dore. DCP (North) N Shashikumar said that Sudhir G Angur, Chancellor of Alliance University, and Suraj Singh, his associate working as an executive in the varsity, were arrested from BTM Layout in

Mysuru, Oct 17: High political drama unfolded at the Chamundeshwari Temple on Thursday as Sa Ra Mahesh and H Vishwanath reached atop Chamundi Hills to swear in front of the Goddess that he had not taken any money to support BJP as alleged by Mahesh. While Mahesh is in Janta Dal (Secular), Vishwanath is a disqualified legislator from the party. Vishwanath had challenged Mahesh to visit

Kalaburagi, Oct 17: Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister and District In-charge Minister Govind Karajol on Thursday said that imposing restriction on media coverage of House proceedings was Speaker's own decision and his power of decision was not questionable. Addressing to the reporters, here Mr Karajol said that Speaker's decision taking power in the house was ultimate. "At a conference, this was

Bengaluru, Oct 17: Former prime minister and JD(S) supremo H D Deve Gowda has said that his party would contest all the 15 seats of assembly by-elections, which is slated to be held on December 5. He said former Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy had already announced about the party's decision to field candidates in all the 15 segments and there were no differences within the party on this matter

Bengaluru, Oct 17: Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike, the Bengaluru civic body has decided to remap the tech hub landscape after latest satellite images from the ISRO exposed chinks in its outdated property records, an official said. "We are soon going to re-map the city with the help of the latest satellite images from the Indian space agency, which used geospatial technology in mapping