Karnataka

Bengaluru, Apr 16: Income Tax (I-T) department conducted several raids on premises of close aids of Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy in Mandya on Tuesday morning. Raids were also being carried out in Hassan and Bengaluru. The searches were conducted at the properties of Janata Dal (Secular) leader and Mandya Zilla Panchayat President Nagarathna Swamy, and Zilla Parishad member Timme Swamy

Udupi, Apr 16: A teenage girl in Udupi district has committed suicide due to depression after failing the II PUC examination, the results of which were announced yesterday. The deceased has been identified as Prajna, 18, a resident of Nadumane village in Udupi’s Hebri. She was student of Arts stream. She had secured above 60 per cent marks in five of the six subjects and failed in one subject –

Yadgir, Apr 16: Charging that the Opposition Bharaitya Janata Party (BJP) is talking loudly over the issue of patriotism, the Opposition Congress leader in Lok Sabha, Mallikarjuna Kharge, has said that "Not even a dog belonging to the Saffron party had sacrificed for the cause of the Indian Independence". Addressing an election meeting in Kongal village of Gurmatkal taluk in Yadagir district, on

Udupi, Apr 16: Raeesa Umarabba, a student of S.R. PU College, Hebri, and Swathi, a student of MGM Pre-University College, are the two girls from the coastal district of Udupi who shared third rank in the Science stream with two others in the Karnataka II PUC exams the results of which were announced on Monday. Both of them have obtained 592/600 marks. Daughter of businessman A Umarabba and

New Delhi, Apr 16: Congress on Monday played out videos of a hard-bound diary purportedly belonging to former KarnatakaCM B S Yeddyurappa containing details of alleged payouts made to top BJP leaders. The party also demanded a Lokpal probe into the alleged Yeddyurappa ‘diary’ and said PM Modi should comment on the veracity of the diary’s contents, failing which it should put the former CM behind

Mangaluru, Apr 16: In a bizarre claim, Union Minister for Civil Aviation Suresh Prabhu has said that the government has yet taken no decision on privatising Mangaluru International Airport. He was responding to queries of media persons at a press conference in in the city. “There is no decision taken on that subject,” he said. However, recent reports had suggested that model code of conduct

Mangaluru, Apr 16: Water Resources Minister D.K. Shivakumar has expressed confidence that the Congress and JD(S) candidates will win a maximum number of seats in the Lok Sabha elections and the BJP will be reduced to single digit in Karnataka. Speaking to media persons at the District Congress Committee office here, Mr. Shivakumar said the differences between the Congress and the JD(S) workers

Mangaluru, Apr 15: Olvita Ancilla D’Souza from Alva’s Pre University College, Moodbidri, Srikrishna Sharma K. from Sathyasai Loka Seva Pre University College, Alike, Bantwal, Shreeya Shenoy from Canara Pre-University College, Mangaluru, and Swasthik P. from St. Philomena’s PU College, Darbe, Puttur, the top four scorers in the Commerce stream in the II Pre University examinations, want to become

Bengaluru, Apr 15: Kruti Muttagi, a student of VVS Sardarpatel PU College at Basaveshwaranagar in the city, has secured first rank in the science stream as the Karnataka PUC results were announced on Monday. She secured 597 marks out of 600, while scoring full marks in four out of six papers – mathematics, physics, chemistry and second language (Sanskrit). Kruti, who wants to be a doctor, said is

Chamarajanagara, Apr 15: Five time MP and former Union and Karnataka Minister Srinivas Prasad is attempting to make a re-entry to Lok Sabha in Chamarajanagara (Reserved) seat by defeating sitting Congress MP Dhruvanarayana in the first phase of Polling slated for April 18. While Srinivas Prasad, who had won the seat on Congress and JDU ticket in the earlier election, has joined BJP quitting