Karnataka

Bengaluru, Sept 15: Former prime minister and Janata Dal Secular (JDS) supremo H D Deve Gowda on Saturday dismissed reports of any MLA quitting the party due to internal strife, amid claims by disqualified legislator K C Narayana Gowda that at least 20 MLAs were waiting to leave the outfit. "Nobody is going to run away. What did he say? He spoke in a bad way," the former prime minister told

Bengaluru, Sep 14: 'Hindi Diwas' took a political twist in Karnataka with the Congress and JD(S) leaders terming it as an 'imposition' of the language. However, the ruling BJP batted for learning it just like Kannada and appealed to the people of the state not to treat it as imposition of a language. The reaction of the parties comes in the wake of Union Home minister Amit Shah pitching for a

Shivamogga, Sept 14: A five-foot-long rat snake was on Saturday rescued from Jayanagara police station in Shivamogga city. The snake was found by a police officer from inside a photocopy machine at the police station. After rescuing the snake, forest official, Kiran said, "One of the police staffs found it in xerox machine space. The snake came to the police station in search of rats. The snake

Bengaluru, Sep 14: Opposition Congress leader in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly Siddaramaiah has convened a meeting of the Legislature party meeting on next Wednesday to discuss over the flood havoc that affected major parts of Karnataka in the last two months. The issues relating relief measures taken by the state government, and it's failures in providing support to the affected people would

Bengaluru, Sep 14: The Bihar Deputy Chief minister, Sushil Kumar Modi, who is also head GoM on GST Revenue shortfall, maintained that no state governments are in favor of slashing the GST slab for the Automobile sector from 28 per cent to 18 per cent, fearing loss of revenue. Speaking to newsmen after a meeting of Group of ministers on IT for GST implementation, here on Saturday, said that “I have

Coimbatore, Sept 14: The indomitable spirit of an over 80-year-old woman in Tamil Nadu who has been selling idlis for just Re 1, for more than two decades now, has touched the hearts of many in the country ever since her story became viral on social media. The octogenarian, Kamalathal says the mere happiness she derives in serving food at such price, earning just enough for a livelihood and

Shivamogga, Sept 14: An environmentalist in Karnataka's Shivamogga has preserved endangered species of more than 500 rare herbal plants and about 1500 varieties of seeds which are considered extinct in his house. At the age of 73, B.Venkatagiri travels across Karnataka to teach people about the importance of herbal plants. Many professors, lecturers and students come to his house for the tutelage

New Delhi, Spt 14: The government on Saturday announced a Rs 10,000 crore special window to provide last-mile funding for completion of ongoing housing projects which are not NPAs or facing bankruptcy proceedings under NCLT. Announcing the measure, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the government will contribute Rs 10,000 crore for the special window and roughly the same amount is expected

Bengaluru, Sept 14: A woman has alleged that she was sexually assaulted by a priest on the pretext of conducting a special ritual, said police. According to the police, a case has been registered against the priest, under Section 354 A and 354 B. "A lady filed a complaint in Banaswadi police station on September 10. She told us that she approached a priest for some personal reasons for which the

Tumakuru, Sept 14: Six persons injured, one seriously when a private passenger bus coming from Vijayapura caught fire, in the wee hours in the outskirts of the city and most of the passengers disembarked but for some who sustained burn injuries on Saturday. According to police the incident occurred at the Orukere, village in the National High Way connecting Pune-Bengaluru and the injured one of