Karnataka

Bengaluru, Sept 7: Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) President Dinesh Gundu Rao today criticized Prime Minister Narendra Modi, for not uttering any words on providing financial assistance from the Center to the flood victims, during his two-day visit to Karnataka. Speaking to newsmen here on Saturday, he said that the Prime Minister despite knowing the plights of over ten lakh flood

Bengaluru, Sept 7: Former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda on Saturday said that the nation is proud of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and obstacles are learning's that lead to greater accomplishments in future. Lauding efforts made by scientists of ISRO, Deve Gowda tweeted, "We as a Nation are proud of ISRO for their hard work on Chandrayaan-2. Obstacles are learnings that lead us to

Benglauru, Sept 7: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sept.7 asked ISRO scientists not to get disheartened by the hurdles in the moon mission Chandrayaan-2 and asserted that there will be a "new dawn and better tomorrow". ISRO's plan to soft-land Chandrayaan-2's Vikram module on the Lunar surface did not go as per script in the early hours of Saturday, with the lander losing communication with ground

Mangaluru, Sept 7: Sindhu B Rupesh today assumed office as the Dakshina Kannada district. The government on Friday transferred and posted the 2011 batch IAS officer, as the new DC of the coastal district. The appointment came along with 20 other IAS officers in the State. Ms. Rupesh was serving as the CEO of Udupi Zilla Panchayat till yesterday. The post of DK DC fell vacant after the resignation

Udupi, Sept 6: Preeti Gehlot, Assistant Commissioner, Kumta Subdivision, Uttara Kannada, has been transferred as CEO of Udupi Zilla Panchayat. She will replace Sindhu B. Rupesh, the present CEO of Zilla Panchayat, who has been transferred as the Deputy Commissioner of Dakshina Kannada district in the place of S. Sasikanth Senthil. Ms. Gehlot is an IAS officer of 2016 batch.

Bengaluru, Sept 6: Two people have sustained minor injuries in a gas cylinder blast that occurred at a shop in Govindapuram on Friday. The incident took place near HKBK College of Engineering. Fire tenders were rushed to the spot and the fire was doused within half an hour. Further details are awaited.

Kanakapura, Sept 6: Janata Dal (Secular) leader and former Chief Minister of Karnataka, HD Kumaraswamy, met Karnataka Congress leader DK Shivakumar's mother here on Friday. Earlier on Thursday, Congress and JD(S) supporters held a protest at Channabasappa Circle in Kanakapura against the arrest of Shivakumar. Protests had erupted in Kanakapura with flaming wooden stick torches against Shivakumar's

San Francisco, Sept 6: Sanyam Jain, a security researcher and member at Hague-based non-profit organisation GDI Foundation, has discovered a massive database containing over 419 million phone numbers of Facebook users on an unsecured server which were available for anyone to access. The database included 133 million records of US-based Facebook users, 18 million records of UK users and more than

Mysuru, Sept 6: Ahead of the famous 'Mysuru Dasara' festival, a rehearsal was on Friday organised for the elephants which will take part in a parade as part of a religious procession in the city. Mysuru Dasara is a 10-day festival, starting with Navaratri and the last day being Vijayadashami (Dusshera). Every year the same trained elephants are brought from Nagarhole forest and kept in Mysore

Bengaluru, Sept 6: Indian Air force (IAF) was on Friday announced the completion of the Level-1 selection of Indian astronauts for mission Gaganyaan, country's first human mission to space. Taking to Twitter, the IAF said, "Completed Level-1 of Indian Astronaut selection at Institute of Aerospace Medicine. Selected Test Pilots underwent extensive physical exercise tests, lab investigations