Karnataka

Mangaluru, Sept 27: Bowing down to the pressure from various organizations, Dakshina Kannada Deputy Director of Public Instruction Y. Shivaramaiah on Thursday modified his earlier order and said the vacation will be between October 7 and October 21. While declaring the mid-term vacation between October 7 and October 21, the State government had empowered Deputy Directors of Public Instruction to

Mangaluru, Sep 27: City-based entrepreneur P B Abdul Hameed was unanimously elected president of the Kanara Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI), Mangaluru, for 2018-19 at the 78th annual general meeting held on Thursday. He is taking over the responsibility from Vathika Pai. The other newly elected office bearers are: Isaac Vas (Vice-President), M Ganesh Kamath (Hon. Treasurer), Shashidhar Pai

Mangaluru, Sept 27: The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has finally filed a chargesheet against Prabhakar Bhat, the RSS veteran from Kalladka, Sri Raghaveshwara Bharati, the pontiff of Ramachandrapura Mutt and Shiva Shankara Bhat, the president of Puttur Havyaka Valaya Bonantaya in connection with a suicide that took place in 2014. The trio has been charged under IPC Sections 306 (abetment

Mangaluru, Sept 27: A girl student of a private dental college at Sullia in Dakshina Kannada district has allegedly committed suicide under mysterious circumstances. The deceased has been identified as Sneha A Thompson, a native of Kerala. She was pursuing BDS at KVG Dental College and Hospital in Sullia. She was staying in a rented room at Kaveri Arcade on KVG Road in Sullia. It is learnt that on

Belagavi, Sept 27: The Karnataka Government will provide free Health insurance cover to more than 1.20 crore people by paying about Rs 9000 Crore Premium, Minister for Health and Family Welfare Shivanand Patil said here on Thursday. Speaking after inaugurating KLE Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital here, he said that the State or Central Government are Introducing many health schemes for the

Bengaluru, Sep 27: Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy on Thursday expressed his confidence of running the Janata Dal-Congress (Secular) coalition government for full five-year term. He also accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for attempts to destabilise the state government. "In Karnataka, our government is very stable. It will run for five years. That is all rumour (18 Congress and JD(S

New Delhi, Sept 27: The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to refer to a five-judge Constitution bench the issue of reconsideration of the observations in its 1994 judgement that a mosque was not integral to Islam which had arisen during the hearing of the Ayodhya land dispute case. In a majority verdict of 2:1, an apex court bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra said the civil suit has to be

Bengaluru, Sept 27: More than 24,000 Chemists and Druggists in Karnataka will down their shutters on Sept 28 in response to an all India Organisation of Chemists and Druggists call for nation wide bandh in protest against the Union Government's move to introduce 'E-Pharmacy' throughout the country. The Karnataka Chemists and Druggists Association President R Raghunath Reddy, who is spreading the

Mangaluru, Sept 27: A fire mishap caused massive damages to two shops near Janata Bazar on Ganapati High School (GHS) Road in city today. The fire partially destroyed Selection Centre, a clothes shop and Kamath and Co, a shop of kitchen appliances. Neither any causality nor any injury reported. The staff of both the shops are safe. The fire extinguishers managed to douse the fire within an hour

New Delhi, Sept 27: In a historic judgement, the Supreme Court of India on Thursday struck down Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code that made adultery a criminal offence. A five-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices RF Nariman, AM Khanwilkar, DY Chandrachud and Indu Malhotra was unanimous in its judgement that held Section 497 as