Karnataka

Bengaluru, Mar 8: As India's tech hub, Bengaluru has more billionaires and ultra-high net worth individuals (UHNWIs) than 5 years ago, said global property consultancy Knight Frank in its Wealth Report 2019 on Thursday. "Bengaluru has 33 billionaires in 2018 as against 30 in 2017 and 26 in 2013, registering 10 per cent annual growth and 27 per cent over the last 5 years," said the London-based

Bengaluru, Mar 8: Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy's son Nikhil Kumaraswamy, a popular actor, said on Thursday that he was ready to serve the people of Mandya from where he is expected to contest the coming Lok Sabha elections. Nikhil, the third generation of the mighty Deve Gowda clan, said he would go by the decision of the party on fielding him from Mandya, a Vokkaliga community bastion

Bengaluru, Mar 7: The NewGen of Twitter users and others often using the social media, including the first time voters in Karnataka, will form good percentage in the coming Lok Sabha Elections and their awareness may influence the voting pattern. A study conducted by Twitter India, serving the public conversation and its youth engagement initiative ‘#power of 18’ reflects on youth sentiment in

Bengaluru, Mar 7: CCB Police have arrested a local education institute ‘founder’ on the charges of cheating young job aspirants to the tune of Rs 80 lakh by promising to get them Karnataka government jobs. Police said on Thursday that the arrested was identified as Siddalingeshwara Education Institution, Gadag, Founder and Chairman Veerannagouda Basanagouda Patil. Preliminary investigation has

Bengaluru, Man 7: All the ten sitting Congress Lok Sabha members from Karnataka, including former Union Ministers M Veerappa Moily (Chikkaballapura) and K H Muniyappa (Kolar) are likely to be re-nominated by the party for the 2019-Lok sabha elections. The Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC)’s election committee which met here on Thursday, have reportedly taken decision to give tickets to

Kalaburagi, Mar 7: Congress leader in the Lok Sabha M Mallikarjuna Kharge today alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi 's so called popular schemes were originally belonged to Congress and they were renamed to gain political mileage. Stating that Mr Modi's contribution to the most backward Hyderabad-Karnataka region and particularly to Kalaburagi is nil, Mr Kharge said that all most all the

Bengaluru, Mar 7: The BJP in Karnataka is betting on winning more seats in the Lok Sabha polls despite the prospects of facing joint contestants from the ruling JD-S and Congress allies in the 28 constituencies across the state. "We will definitely win more seats this time than the 17 we had won in the 2014 general elections due to favourable factors, including the changing national mood and the

Thiruvananthapuram, Mar 7: Senior Communist Party of India-Marxist CPI (M) leader Kodiyeri Balakrishnan on Wednesday demanded a probe into how Adani Enterprises won the bid to operate five international airports, including Mangaluru. Balakrishnan, the party's Kerala state Secretary, told the media in Thiruvananthapuram that it was quite strange that the group was able to win the rights to all the

Bengaluru, Mar 7: In a daring daylight attack rowdy-sheeter Lakshman was brutally murdered in the city on Thursday by a gang who hit him with lethal weapons after spraying chilly powder. Police said that Lakshman was traveling in a car when the miscreants numbering to about 5 to 6 followed him in another car waylaid near ISCON and sprinkled chilly powder on him before attacking with sharp weapons

Vijayapura, Mar 7: Police have booked six miscreants belonging to the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, the students’ wing of BJP, for forcing Assistant Professor Sandeep Wathar of Dr PG Halkatti College of Engineering and Technology to kneel down following his social media comments on India-Pakistan tension. The accused have been identified as Sachin Bagewadi, Kamalesh Sahukar, Vinod Manivaddar