Karnataka

Mangaluru April 27: Eminent Environmentalist Salumara Thimmakka and Ramkrishna Mission have been conferred with the Rotary Annual State Level prestigious “Vandana Award” at a function held on 26.04.2019 at Ocean Pearl Hotel. The award is conferred on them in recognition of their exemplary achievements and in appreciation of their invaluable contributions, in the field of Environment protection

New Delhi, Apr 27: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced that it will issue new Rs 20 denomination banknotes soon. The new banknote will have a base colour of greenish -yellow and will be 63 X 129 mm in size. The apex bank had first introduced the Rs 20 note in the Mahatma Gandhi Series in August 2001. In contrast to the old red-orange colored Rs 20 note of size 143 X 63 mm, which has a

Bengaluru, Apr 27: Karnataka Cadre IAS officer Mohammed Mohsin, who had been suspended for checking a helicopter in which Prime Minister had flied for electioneering, is seeking legal remedy against Election Commission order to the Karnataka Government to take disciplinary action against him. EC had kept Mohsin under suspension pending inquiry and later revoked its order but ordered the Karnataka

Bengaluru, Apr 27: The police on Friday late night arrested a 65-year-old ex-Army man on charges of making hoax call to Bengaluru police control room on Friday. In the phone call, the caller had claimed that major cities in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Pondicherry, Goa and Maharashtra will be hit by terror attacks. Accused Sundaramurthy had served in the Army for 20

Bengaluru, Apr 27: Karnataka BJP chief B S Yeddyurappa has requested the Election Commission to reconsider its decision to "relax" the model code of conduct for the state government and to direct it to strictly abide by the code. Stating that the decisions of the state government on various projects will have ramifications in other states where Lok Sabha elections are in progress, Yeddyurappa

Bengaluru, Apr 27: The Karnataka High Court has refused to quash a criminal case registered against Jignesh Mevani, Gujarat MLA, for allegedly giving provocative statement with an intent to cause riot during a programme in Chitradurga on April 6, 2018. Justice Aravind Kumar passed the order on a petition filed by Mr. Mevani, who had claimed that the contents of his speech did not indicate any

Wayanad, Apr 27: A man and a woman were killed in an explosion in a house at Naikatty, near Sulthan Bathery in Kerala’s Wayanad region on Friday. The police identified the deceased as Benny, 50, of Perinhathel, and Amla Nazar, 30, wife of Nazar, of Ilavana at Naikkatty in the district. The incident occurred around 1 p.m. when Nazar went to a nearby mosque for prayer. People rushed to the spot on

Mangaluru, Apr 26: Two elderly women died on the spot after their car collides with a KSRTC bus at Nehru Nagar of Narikombu village in Bantwal taluk on Friday. The Bantwal Traffic Police gave the names of the deceased as Rukmini (63) and Sarojini Shetty (65). Anusha (40) and car driver Umesh (45) were critically injured. The police said that Rukmini, Sarojini Shetty and Ms. Anusha, all from Bajal

Mangaluru, Apr 26: While speaking about how footage from CCTV cameras helped police in apprehending the accused in a theft in the city outskirts at Surathkal, Police Commissioner Sandeep Patil on Friday asked residents, especially those living in isolated areas, to install such cameras and other safety gadgets at their homes. At a function organised to return to owners the property recovered, Mr

Bengaluru, Apr 26: Amidst threat to the stability of the one-year-old JD(S)-Congress coalition government, Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy has convened a meeting of the JDS Legislators here on April 28. In a statement, the JD(S) State President H Vishwanath said that a meeting of the party MLAs, had been called by Kumaraswamy on Sunday.