Karnataka

Mangaluru, Sept 20: UAE-based NRI philanthropist Dr Sheikh Bava has been elected as the president of the International Committee of the Karnataka Cultural Foundation (KFC) for the next two years. He was chosen during the annual general meeting of the Committee recently held at Sahodaya Hall in Mangaluru in the presence of S P Hamza Sakhafi, Karnataka state unit secretary of the Jamiyyathul Ulama

Bengaluru, Sep 20: AGS Transact Technologies Limited (AGSTTL) today announced that it will manage end-to-end automatic fare collection (AFC) for Bengaluru Metro. The AFC system will be implemented across 61 new stations in phase II over the period of three years. The company will manage supply, installation as well as maintenance at these metro stations. The contract is won by the consortium of

Mudigere, Sept 20: Karnataka Revenue Minister R Ashok has said the State government will sanction alternative land for those farmers, who lost their farm land and house locations owing to landslips in the district and the revenue department had identified 374 acres of land suitable for the flood-hit people. Speaking to newsmen after interacting with flood-hit people at a relief center at

Bengaluru, Sept 20: In a fresh case of online matrimonial fraud, a 45-year-old man from Karnataka’s Chikkaballapura has lost Rs 33 lakh to his dream girl whom he had met on a matrimonial site. A helpless R K Muniraja, an electrician by profession, has now approached police seeking justice after his dream of leading a blissful, married life with newfound girlfriend from Italy came crashing down

Shivamogga, Sept 20: A childless couple’s two decade long marital life took an ugly turn with the woman lodging an instant triple talaq complaint against her NRI husband using WhatsApp chat as proof after he reportedly divorced her over severe differences. The couple had been married for about 20 years, and the woman's husband had left for United Arab Emirates in January but did not come back

Bengaluru, Sept 20: In the vast Bengaluru South Lok Sabha constituency, parliamentarian Tejasvi Surya, unfortunately, couldn’t find any other place to set up his office and hence he had to occupy a public library located in Jayanagar 5th Block. It was a place where students from underprivileged families gathered to prepare for board examinations. The building in question belongs to the Bruhat

Bengaluru, Sept 20: Political foes chief minister BS Yediyurappa and former chief minister and Congress leader Siddaramaiah shared the dais at an event in Bengaluru on Thursday and exchanged pleasantries. Yediyurappa and Siddaramaiah have been bitter rivals since 2010, when the Congress Legislature Party leader had successfully campaigned against the BJP and Yediyurappa in the illegal mining scam

In a major victory for a college girl, who has ousted from a college hostel for violating mobile ban, the Kerala High court has scrapped the restriction imposed by the hostel authorities. Faheema Shirin, a second-year BA English literature student of the Sree Narayana Guru College at Chelannur in Kozhikode district in North Kerala, had approached the HC against the ban imposed at the college

Bengaluru, Sept 19: Senior Congress leader and former Karnataka minister DK Shivakumar was sent to Tihar Jail on Thursday hours before a Delhi court adjourned hearing on his bail plea to Saturday. Shivakumar was moved to jail soon after he was discharged from Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in Delhi where he was undergoing treatment for chest pain and high blood pressure. He is, perhaps, the first

New Delhi, Sept 19: A Delhi court on Thursday posted the further arguments in a bail plea filed by jailed Karnataka Congress leader D K Shivakumar to September 21 in connection with a money laundering case. Special Judge Ajay Kumar Kuhar partially heard the arguments in the case today. During the course of proceedings, Additional Solicitor General (ASG) KM Natraj said that Shivakumar had made a