Karnataka

Bengaluru, Sept 18: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has registered a money laundering case against Karnataka minister D K Shivakumar and few others on the basis of an alleged tax evasion and hawala transactions case, and launched a probe. The agency has booked Shivakumar, Haumanthaiah, an employee at Karnataka Bhavan in New Delhi, and others under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA)

Anurag Kashyap who just a decade ago reinterpreted the story of Devdas drowning in his agony of lost love, understanding very well the pulse of the new generation of the new millennium, now has ended up making Manmarziyaan while trying to underline the new shade of love in what can be called the post-love era, seems a decade behind of Dev D in its final vision. Inability to commit to a

Bengaluru, Sept 18: JDS and Congress Coordination Committee Chairman Siddaramaiah today clarified that thee is no threat to the Coalition government in the State as reported in a section of the press. Addressing a press conference here on Tuesday, the former Chief Minister said that "there is no difference of opinion among the Congress leaders and nobody is quitting the party. There is no base for

Bengaluru, Sept 18: A consumer court in the city has directed the South Western Railway (SWR) to pay over Rs 4.47 lakh to a woman passenger who accused the utility of failing to protect her belongings from thieves. The incident occurred on the evening of February 21, 2014 when Ramila Devi, 50, from Mysuru, along with her husband, daughter and mother-in-law boarded the S10 compartment of Garib

Bengaluru, Sept 18: BJP veteran and union minister for parliamentary affairs and chemicals and fertilizers HN Ananth Kumar, who is receiving treatment in United Kingdom, is likely to be shifted to the United States for further treatment, according to media reports. Kumar, the 5-term MP, who represents Bengaluru South constituency, has been staying at his relatives’ house in London for last two

Mangaluru, Sept 18: A notorious rowdy-sheeter and a minor boy have been arrested by the Kankanady Town Police on the charge of bag-snatching and attempt to break an ATM. The rowdy-sheeter Arif (24), resident of Vamanjoor, is already facing 13 cases including an attempt to murder and dacoity in Kankanady, Kavoor and Bantwal Rural police limits. Arif, riding a scooter along with the boy, allegedly

Bengaluru, Sept 18: Srikant Pangarkar, a former Shiv Sena councillor of Jalna Municipal Corporation in Maharashtra, has become the 14th accused arrested by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the murder of journactivist Gauri Lankesh. Investigators also suspect that Srikant was in Bengaluru on September 5, 2017, the day Gauri Lankesh was assassinated. He has been remanded into SIT custody

Raichur, Sept 18: All India Congress Committee general secretary and MLC N S Boseraju has claimed that at least six MLAs from the BJP are in touch with the Congress, and none from his party will join the BJP. Talking to reporters here, Mr. Boseraju said that the BJP was trying to destabilise the coalition government. But, its efforts will bring no results as MLAs from the Congress and the Janata

Mangaluru, Sept 18: The Bajpe Police have arrested five persons on the charge of stealing electricity cable kept for railway electrification at Kenjar village and recovered stolen cable worth Rs. 2 lakh along with a van allegedly used to commit the crime. The police gave the names of the accused as Arif alias Mohammed Arif alias Munna (28), a resident of Kalavaru, Ramlan Ideen alias Kamal (20), a

Mangaluru, Sept 17: U T Khader, Minister for Housing, Urban Development and Dakshina Kannada district in-charge, has said that new state-of-the-art markets would come up in Mangaluru in near future. Speaking to reporters, he said that the Karnataka government has proposed to have a market at Kadri at a cost of Rs. 12 crore and another at Kankanady at an estimated cost of Rs. 41 crore. A fish