Karnataka

Bengaluru, Nov 2: Karnataka Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Sanjeev Kumar has declared a dry day for bypoll areas the state for 48 hours starting from 6 pm on November 1 and November 3 till midnight. The by-elections for three parliamentary constituencies in Karnataka- Bellary, Shimoga, Mandya- and two legislative assembly constituencies-Jamkhandi, Ramanagaram will be held on November 3. Counting of

Bengaluru, Nov 2: Karnatakarevenue minister RV Deshpande has courted controversy after a video showing him throwing sports kits at sportspersons at a function went viral with Union sports minister Rajyavardhan Rathore and state BJP flaying him for his conduct. The incident took place on Wednesday in Haliyal in Uttara Kanna district, the assembly constituency of the minister when he was

Mangaluru, Nov 1: The Forest Department’s tableau on preserving forest and wildlife was adjudged the best at the procession held to mark Rajyotsava celebrations here on Thursday. The department’s tableau was on the concept ‘Namma Nade Vanyajeevigala Kade’ (Our walk towards wildlife). With ‘Hasiru Karnataka’ message written in the front, it also displayed messages around the vehicles on the need to

Newsroom, Nov 1: Actress-turned-politician Ramya, who has mastered the art of taunting and mocking political opponents through her witty tweets, has once again faced a huge backlash on social media and condemnation for a controversial question on ‘Statue of Unity’ which was unveiled by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “Is that a bird dropping?" was all Ramya had to say about a photo in which Mr

Kasaragod, Nov 1: Proving that age was no barrier to learning, a 96-year-old woman has secured high marks in a literacy examination held in Kerala. Karthyayani Amma, the oldest candidate who appeared for the "Aksharalaksham" programme of the state-run Kerala State Literacy Mission Authority, scored 98 marks out of 100. A native of Cheppad village of Haripad in Alappuzha district, the nonagenarian

Mangaluru, Nov 1: Customs employees at the Manglauru International Airport have once again come under the scanner after the involvement of two staffers in gold smuggling racket came to light recently. Ashwin N V and Srikanth, both Customs hawaldars were recently arrested by the sleuths of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) on charges of helping the gold smugglers at the airport. It is

Bengaluru, Nov 1: Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy on Thursday appealed to the people that they should not heed to voices that are bent upon dividing the state on regional basis. In his address on the occasion of 63rd Kannada Rajyotsava, the chief minister recounted the efforts and struggle by various leaders to reunite the state which had got divided during the British rule and urged the people to

Mysuru, Nov 1: The Karnataka police have managed to bust a notorious gang of highway dacoits who used target carts on Mysuru-Kerala highway and arrested nine of them. The operation was carried out by the Hunsur police in Mysuru district. There was 12 members in the gang of dacoits and three of them managed to escape. The arrested are Regan, 38, Vinesh Kumar, 39, Mohan Das, 39, and Satish Kumar, 39

Bengaluru, Nov 1: In a major embarrassment to the BJP ahead of the bypolls, its Ramanagara candidate, L Chandrashekar has withdrawn from the race declaring that he will rejoin the Congress. Addressing the media in Bengaluru on Thursday, Chandrashekar claimed that he was forced to take such a decision as he found no support or cooperation from leaders in the BJP. The party lacked unity, he said. He

Mangaluru, Nov 1: A native of Kasaragod, who was residing in Goa, has been arrested by the sleuths of the Mangaluru City Crime Branch in connection with a cocaine seizure case registered recently. The arrested person has been identified as Ajmal Pullikal Ahmed, a resident of Candolim in Goa, who originally hails from Kasaragod. Police said five people who were selling cocaine in the city were