Karnataka

Mysuru, Aug 29: Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa today said that the State government expecting more funds for the floods relief and rehabilitation works in the affected 103 taluks which are declared as flood-affected. Speaking to newsmen at helipad here on Thursday, he said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is visiting the State on September 7 and will explain to him about the situation

Mandya, Aug 29: Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa, who offered Puja at Krishnaraja Sagar Reservoir (KRS) on Thursday, said bountiful rain had brought relief to the people of Karnataka as well as Tamil Nadu and described the current situation as “nature’s solution” to the problems faced by the two States over sharing of waters. Speaking on the occasion, Yediyurappa said that the four major

Mangaluru, Aug 29: Two of the five persons who tried to steal petrol from a pipeline by digging a tunnel near Kinnimogeru in Malavoor on the outskirts of the city have been arrested by the police. The HPCL petrol pipeline supplies fuel to Bengaluru from Mangaluru. The arrested have been identified as Armugam, 39, and Ramesh, 35, both residents of Marakada. They were arrested near Vamanjoor check

Mangaluru, Aug 29: A businessman, who went missing on August 25, was found near Surathkal Beach on the outskirts of the city yesterday. The deceased is Prabhakar Acharya, 57, a resident of Boliyar near Ammebal. He was owner of a jewellery shop and a finance company. On August 25, he informed his wife that he is going to hospital and never returned after that. A missing complaint was registered at

Bengaluru, Aug 29: The Bharatiya Janata Party led governments at the Centre and Karnataka are tapping phones of opposition leaders in the state including former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda, former chief minister Siddaramaiah and KPCC president Dinesh Gundurao, according to Janata Dal (Secular). JD(S) spokesperson Ramesh Babu on Wednesday alleged that a facility has been set up at Kaiga nuclear

Bengaluru, Aug 28: Though BJP grabbed power in Karnataka under the leadership of B S Yediyurappa with hectic melodrama and enticements, now it is pursuing more dramas and acrobats which pushed the state into hanging and uncertainty, said Elyas Muhammad Thumbe, state president of Social Democratic Party of India, Karnataka state. In a release issued here, he said Yediyurappa is now not in a

Mangaluru, Aug 28: Centre for Environmental Studies of Yenepoya University undertook a sapling planting campaign during the months of July and August under its Green Community Project headed by Dr. Bhagya B. Sharma. The objective of the programme was to create awareness of environment and encourage people’s participation in preserving the ecology. School children and teachers, as well as local

Bengaluru, Aug 28: Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) special commissioner Randeep D on Wednesday said that the ban on single-use plastic has not been implemented in top gear in the region and starting September 1 actions as per Solid Waste Mangement (SWM) bye-laws will be implemented. "In 2016, there was a statewide ban on single-use plastic by the state government which is applicable to

Bengaluru, Aug 28: The police are on the lookout for the principal of a private tutorial, who is facing the charge sexually assaulting a teenage student and then trying to cover up it by promising her to help secure an MBBS seat. The accused, Niranjan Gowda, 29, have been booked by the Ramamurthy Nagar police in Bengaluru under IPC sections 376 (rape) and 420 (cheating). The victim in her

Bengaluru, Aug 28: Within a day signs of rebellion emerged within BJP in Karnataka over allocation of portfolios and ignoring seniors while picking three deputy chief ministers, all the disgruntled leaders fell in following a stern warning by Amit Shah, the invincible supremo of the saffron party. Senior BJP leaders C T Ravi, Jagadish Shettar, R Ashok, K S Eshwarappa and B Sriramulu, were