Karnataka

Udupi, May 4: With the mystery of the missing fishing boat has been solved with recovery of wreckage by he Navy, the Karnataka Government was urged to pay cash compensation to the next to the kin of the seven fishermen who were feared to have died in the boat accident in the mid-sea. Speaking to newsmen here on Saturday, Nityananda Kotian, one of the victims family of the missing boat Suvarna

Belagavi , May 4: Forest minister Satish Jarkiholi, has charged that the BJP is trying to destablise all the non-BJP state governments in the country, through Operation Lotus(Kamala). Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, the Congress minister said that Prime minister Narendra Modi’s statement regarding Trinamool Congress MLAs, having contact with him has proved that BJP leaders are

Bengaluru, May 4: The ruling Congress-JD(S) combine in Karnataka will gain maximum number of seats in the recently concluded Lok Sabha polls as per an analysis done by the party, deputy chief minister G Parameswara said on Saturday. "Based on the information we have gathered from constituencies, we did an analysis, which said both parties (Congress and JDS) together would win a majorityof seats

Bengaluru, May 4: The customs sleuths at the Bengaluru’s Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) have nabbed two international passengers for attempting to innovatively smuggle in over 4kg of gold worth Rs 1.3 crore. Sources with the Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) of Bengaluru customs said their team intercepted a passenger who disembarked from Emirates flight EK 568 (from Dubai) at Bengaluru airport

Madikeri, May 4: The police Kodagu district police have arrested one of the two persons for allegedly harassing actress Harshika Poonacha at a resort in Neerukolli of Madikeri taluk. The arrested is Bansi Nanaiah who is accused of behaving indecently with her. Another accused is absconding. The actress was in Madikeri to take part in an engagement of her relative on Thursday night. She was staying

Udupi, May 4: Udupi MLA Raghupathi Bhat and former minister Pramod Madhwaraj have demanded a high level inquiry into the case of missing fishing boat Suvarna Tribhuja, the wreckage of which was traced by the Navy personnel. Though the reason behind how the vessel was damaged still remains unknown, boat Mr Bhat and Mr Madhwaraj speculated that the boat had possibly been hit by Indian Navy’s stealth

Bengaluru, May 4: A good news for the school children and their parents ahead of the beginning of a new academic year and a bad news for those who hate them. The Karnataka government has issued an order directing all schools in the State, including government, aided and unaided institutions, to ensure that the weight of a school bag is no more than 10% of the child’s weight. The Primary and

With the results of Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main out, it is celebration time at CFAL (Centre for Advanced Learning), Mangalore’s top training institute as 64% of its students turned successful at the prestigious national examination. 65 of the 101 students who wrote JEE Main qualified for JEE Advanced and are eligible for seats at the NIT’s and other top institutions of the country. It is

Bantwal, Apr 4: A team of policemen, led Assistant Superintendent of Police Saidul Adavat, raided a spot in the Netravathi backwaters at Pudu village in Bantwal taluk on Friday and seized 35 lorry-loads of sand. The raid was conducted on a tip-off about a group attempting to illegally extract sand from the riverbed. As the police arrived, the people involved in extracting sand escaped. The

Bengaluru, May 3: The Special Investigation Team probing the killing of rationalist M M Kalburgi is hunting for at least two persons directly involved in the crime, sources in the SIT said Friday. Kalburgi was shot dead on August 30, 2015 by two motorcycle borne assailants, who entered his house in Dharwad posing as students. The criminal investigation department was investigating the case