Karnataka

Pune, jul 5: Advocate Sanjeev Punalekar, an accused in rationalist Narendra Dabholkar murder case in 2013, granted bail by Pune sessions court on a surety amount of Rs 30,000 on Friday. Punalekar has been accused of destruction of firearms used in the commission of the offence. Additional Session judge RM Pande said, "Punalekar will have to be present before CBI on every Monday and Tuesday. He

Mangaluru, Jul 7: The Mangaluru police have arrested a north Indian for allegedly involved in a financial fraud using the cyber platform, Police Commissioner, Sandeep Patil informed here on Friday. Addressing newsmen here on Friday, the police officer said that the fraudster identified as Yusuf Khan (30) was operating from Delhi. “We are also looking out to arrest two others identified as

Mangaluru, Jul 5: The Akhil Bharatiya Vidhyarthi Parishath (ABVP) has strongly denied that the five Hindutva activists who were arrested by Dakshina Kannada district police earlier this week on the charge of gang-raping a teen-aged college girl are its members. In a statement here on Friday, ABVP State Secretary Harsha Narayana said that the five accused did not have any affiliation with the ABVP

New Delhi, Jul 5: Bengaluru and Gurugram are among the top 5 preferred destinations in the Asia Pacific to set up offices by technology companies because of better business conditions as well as the availability of engineers and real estate for growth, according to a report. The report by property consultant CBRE said technology companies continue to fuel office demand in the APAC region, despite

New Delhi, Jul 5: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday said there will be a comprehensive restructuring of National Highways Programme to ensure the creation of National Highways Grid of desirable capacity. Presenting the Budget for 2019-20, she said the government has already approved Rs 10,000 crore for FAME II scheme on April 1, 2019, to encourage faster adoption of electric vehicles

New Delhi, Jul 5: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday proposed to issue Aadhaar cards to non-resident Indians holding Indian passport on their arrival in the country. Under the present rule, NRIs with Indian passport are required to wait for 180 days to get the Aadhaar card. "I propose to consider issuing Aadhaar cards for NRIs with Indian Passports after their arrival in India without

Bengaluru, Jul 5: Speaker KR Ramesh Kumar took a dim view of legislators resigning from the state assembly at the drop of a hat, remarking that “only those who have no workwill quitting”. Speaking to reporters on Thursday, Kumar indicated Congress MLA Ramesh Jarkiholi had not resigned and that only Anand Singh had quit. “I have been in my chamber, but no MLA has come [to see me] so far,” Kumar

Belagavi, Jul 5: Sri Ram Sene will organise a Belagavi Chalo on July 8, against what it calls the State government’s tacit support to illicit cattle trade. Founder-president of the sene Pramod Mutalik said here on Thursday that illegal beef trade and cattle transport was rampant in the State and it had the tacit support of the State government. He told journalists that the sene will organise a

Mangaluru, Jul 5: Former Karkala MLA Hutturke Gopal Bhandary, who was about to celebrate his 67th birthday this weekend, died of heart attack on board a bus last night. The end came when he was travelling alone in a KSRTC multi-axle bus from Bengaluru to Mangaluru. The bus driver found the two-time Congress MLA slumped on the bus seat when it reached the main KSRTC bus station at Bejai around 10

Mangaluru, Jul 4: As many as eight persons have been arrested by the Dakshina Kannada district police on charge of circulating a video clip of the alleged gang rape of a student of a private college in Puttur. Superintendent of Police BM Laxmi Prasad had set up two teams – one to probe the gang rape and the other to probe how the video went viral on social media. Based on a suo motu complaint