Karnataka

Bengaluru, Jun 27: The Karnataka Government is contemplating to ban construction of Apartments in the City for next five years due to severe shortage of drinking water faced, Deputy Chief Minister Dr G Parameshwara said today. Speaking to newsmen here at his residence on Thursday, Dr Parameshwara alleged that the builders are selling the apartments without ensuring basic infrastructure including

Benagluru, Jun 27: The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has issued draft regulations aiming to mandate packaged food companies to label high fat, sugar and salt contents in the front of the package itself in red colour. Alarmed by rising rates of obesity and diabetes, India has been planning rules from as early as two years ago, requiring food manufacturers to display fat

Raichur, Jun 27: Hundreds of people in Hyderabad-Karnataka region reached Karegudda villageearly Wednesday in the hope they could meet HD Kumaraswamy with their grievances at the Janata Darshan and return home by evening. However, their hope turned to despair when he didn’t turn up till 3pm, five hours late. And he started accepting petitions only after 5pm after a long speech. Those waiting

Vijayapura, Jun 27: The Karnataka Government has sounded a high alert throughout the State following arrest of suspected terrorist, a Bangladesh National allegedly having link with a terrorist organization, Home Minister M B Patil said today. Speaking to newsmen here on Thursday, he said that “following NIA team arresting a suspected terrorist Habibur Rehaman, a Bangladesh National, who is

Bengaluru, Jun 27: Primary and secondary education minister SR Srinivas on Wednesday said department officials will travel to Kerala and New Delhi to study the successful model of government schools there. “In the next 15 days, I will lead a team of education department experts and visit the two states for research ... We will study how government schools operate there, compile their best

Bengaluru, Jun 27: The Congress leadership on Wednesday heard angry remonstrances from senior figures and election candidates from Karnataka, who blamed their rout in the Lok Sabha polls on factionalism in the party and the ill-considered alliance with the JD(S). KC Venugopal, general secretary of the All India Congress Committee (AICC) and Karnataka in-charge, held discussions with 16 of the 21

Ramanagara, Jun 26: Police have recovered two live bombs from a drainage in the town, about 50 Km from Karnataka’s capital Bengaluru on Wednesday. The recovery comes close on the heels of arrest of a suspected member of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh Habibur Rehman Sheikh (28) alias Habibur or Sheikh in Doddaballapur in Bengaluru Rural district yesterday. Sources said that the National

Mangaluru, Jun 26: Members of the local unit of the Mahila Congress on Wednesday staged a protest in front of the Post Office on Balmatta Road in the city demanding a ban on EVMs and reintroduction of ballot papers. "We are holding a postcard movement where we are demanding a transparent election. We had many doubts about this year's election, which was held using Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs)

Bengaluru, Jun 26: Former Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah and Congress legislator from Badami, is likely to visit the constituency, days after people started "where is our MLA" campaign, sources said on Wednesday. However, no official statement was issued on the campaign, sources said that after becoming MLA, Siddaramaiah spent most of his time in Bengaluru and Mysore preparing for the

Bengaluru, Jun 26: The farmers protest in Mandya entered the sixth day on Wednesday. The farmers have been demanding diversion of Cauvery and Hemavati waters to their canals in order to save their produce. "At this moment we are facing a deficit of water in our reservoirs. We have 75-80 TMC of water in our Cauvery reservoir. It's not possible to release water to them. But we are requesting the