Karnataka

Madikeri, Aug 26: Chamundeshwari Electricity Supply Corporation (CESC) has incurred loss to the tune of Rs two crore in the recent rain havoc and flood in Kodagu District. The CESC personnel have been striving to restore power supply in rural areas, which have been badly hit. Around 2,150 electric poles, 117 transformers and wires in about 6.8 km were damaged. Nearly 95 percent of restoration work

Bengaluru, Aug 26: Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Monday said that the inter-ministerial central team is in the state to assess the damage caused due to the floods and will submit a report to the Centre in two days. "The Centre has sent a study team to our state. The team has come to study flood-hit areas here. They will give the report to the Centre in two days. I am sure that the

Bengaluru, Aug 26: The forensic report on the death of Café Coffee Day owner V G Siddhartha corroborates the suicide theory, Mangaluru Police Commissioner P S Harsha said on Monday. According to police sources, water was found in Siddhartha's lungs and his death was due to drowning. "We have received the FSL report. It corroborates the suicide theory," the commissioner told PTI. Siddhartha had

Hubballi, Aug 26: Claiming that chief minister B S Yediyurappa's government can’t survive for more than one year, former chief minister Siddaramaiah today said that the mature people of Karnataka would teach befitting lesson to the BJP. "How can a government survive for a long time, having rebels. They do not have mandate, and they have formed the government in a wrong way, using Congress and JD(S

Aug 26: When snack makers start to lament that Indians can’t afford to spend Rs 5 (7 cents) on biscuits, it’s time to stop arguing over how much of the nation’s slowdown is cyclical and what part is structural. Considering its glaring income, wealth and consumption inequalities, India is a surprisingly calm society. However, when purchasing power dries up to the extent that rural laborers and

Nagapattinam, Aug 26: Tension prevailed in Vedaranyam and surrounding areas in Nagapattinam district of Tamil Nadu as clashes erupted between casteist Hindus and dalits following attack on a lower caste man last evening. The clash broke out at around when a Dalit man, Ramachandran, was found in front of a parked SUV, screaming from grievous injury on his leg. The suspect, named Pandiyan, a

Bengaluru, Aug 26: In a desperate bid to quell disgruntles and pacify power-hungry MLAs of BJP, Karnataka chief minister BS Yediyurappa is likely to create three deputy CM posts. The list of probables for three deputy chief minister posts appears to have added fuel to the fire of rebellion raging within BJP following the Yediyurappa cabinet formation. Senior leaders who felt slighted at being left

Bengaluru, Aug 26: Former Karnataka chief minister and senior Congress leader Siddaramaiah has targeted his alliance partner and former CM HD Kumaraswamy, blaming the latter for the collapse of the Janata Dal Secular (JDS)-Congress government. Speaking to mediapersons in Mysuru on Sunday, the Congress veteran claimed that Kumaraswamy treated him “as an enemy”, adding that it was the JDS leader’s

Bengaluru, Aug 25: Senior Congress leader Siddaramaiah on Sunday took a dig at chief minister B S Yediyurappa over the delay in allocation of portfolios to his ministerial colleagues and said he has becomeunwanted baby of the BJP. The former chief minister claimed BJP was facing rebellion within due to which the portfolios could not be alloted even after five days of the cabinet expansion and the

Mangaluru, Aug 25: The 38th Shramadan of Ramakrishna Mission Swacchata Abhiyan’s 5th phase was carried out in Kavoor area today. The shramadan was jointly flagged off in front of BGS Institutions by Lecturer of GFGC, Kavoor Manoj Louis, and Rekha S N. On this occasion, Sri Ranjan Bellarpady, Incharge of Kavoor GFGC Red Cross Unit Mohini H K, Sujith Bhandary, Gurudatta Shenoy, Swapnil Chowta