Karnataka

Bengaluru, Jul 6: Jobs don't get created just by references to Basaveshwara's "work is worship" verses, the ruling Congress-JD(S) coalition in Karnataka said on Friday, as Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman often mentioned the 12th-century social reformer in her budget speech. While Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy said he had great expectations from Sitharaman's maiden budget, but was left

Bengaluru, Jul 6: Karnataka minister BZ Zameer Ahmed Khan, who was summoned by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with its probe into the IMA group ponzi scam, appeared before the agency on Friday. The Enforcement Directorate (ED), which has registered a money laundering case in the scam in which thousands of depositors are said to have been duped, had last week summoned Khan, Food and

Mangaluru, 5: A minor Dalit girl was allegedly raped in Puttur of Dakshina Kannada district on Friday morning. The girl, who fell unconscious after being raped, is currently being treated at a hospital. Police arrested Ajith P, 28, a resident of Madnoor in Puttur, for committing the crime. According to police, the incident took place between 7am to 8am on Friday, when the 15-year-old victim was on

Bengaluru, Jul 5: Special Investigation Team (SIT) formed to investigate into multi-crore IMA Fraud today arrested Bengaluru North Sub-Division Assistant Commissioner L C Nagaraj on charges of receiving bribe from IMA for giving report in its favour to Reserve Bank of India (RBI). Following direction from RBI to look into the bribe allegation, the Karnataka Government had asked Nagaraj to

Bengaluru, Jul 5: Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) Working President Eshwar Khandre, in his reaction, termed the Budget as ‘burden’ on the people belonging to poor and downtrodden sections of the society and party will protest against the budget. Speaking to newsmen here on Friday, he said that the people of Karnataka had supported the Prime Minister, in a big way in the Lok Sabha

Belagavi, Jul 5: Karnataka Minister for Urban Development U T Khader, denying allegations by the Opposition party that completion of Smart City work was slowed down purposely, said that steps were taken to speed up the works and take the State to Second or Third position from the present fifth in the Country. Speaking to newsmen after review meeting with Smart city officials here on Friday, he

Pune, jul 5: Advocate Sanjeev Punalekar, an accused in rationalist Narendra Dabholkar murder case in 2013, granted bail by Pune sessions court on a surety amount of Rs 30,000 on Friday. Punalekar has been accused of destruction of firearms used in the commission of the offence. Additional Session judge RM Pande said, "Punalekar will have to be present before CBI on every Monday and Tuesday. He

Mangaluru, Jul 7: The Mangaluru police have arrested a north Indian for allegedly involved in a financial fraud using the cyber platform, Police Commissioner, Sandeep Patil informed here on Friday. Addressing newsmen here on Friday, the police officer said that the fraudster identified as Yusuf Khan (30) was operating from Delhi. “We are also looking out to arrest two others identified as

Mangaluru, Jul 5: The Akhil Bharatiya Vidhyarthi Parishath (ABVP) has strongly denied that the five Hindutva activists who were arrested by Dakshina Kannada district police earlier this week on the charge of gang-raping a teen-aged college girl are its members. In a statement here on Friday, ABVP State Secretary Harsha Narayana said that the five accused did not have any affiliation with the ABVP

New Delhi, Jul 5: Bengaluru and Gurugram are among the top 5 preferred destinations in the Asia Pacific to set up offices by technology companies because of better business conditions as well as the availability of engineers and real estate for growth, according to a report. The report by property consultant CBRE said technology companies continue to fuel office demand in the APAC region, despite