Karnataka

Mangaluru, Feb 1: The Southwestern Railway will operate a new train between Yeshwantpur and Mangaluru Central via Hassan, thrice a week. The train will depart Yeshwantpur station at 4.30 pm on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays and reach Mangaluru at 4.30 am the next day. The train will reach Hassan at 8 pm. In the return journey, the train will leave Mangaluru station at 7 pm on Mondays, Wednesdays

Newsroom, Feb 1: Notorious underworld Don Ravi Poojary aka Ravi Pujari, has been arrested in Senegal, West Africa according to reports. The fugitive gangster, who used to operate in Mumbai in the 1990s, was earlier believed to be hiding in Australia. Poojary was mentored by gangster Chhota Rajan, who is currently serving a life sentence in a jail in Navi Mumbai. The two parted ways sometime around

Bengaluru, Feb 1: The Karnataka state government has finally put the much-delayed smart city projects on the fast track and lined up schemes worth Rs 7,000 crore. According to urban development minister UT Khader, the government has so far implemented Rs 1, 499 crore-worth projects in the last six months and has now invited tenders for projects worth another Rs 1,407 crore. It will soon clear

Bengaluru, Feb 1: Social media can not only unite people but also can lead to murders. A team of Bidadi police, with the help of forest officials, are combing the Kumbalagodu Reserve Forest in search of the body of a three-month-old infant who was killed, along with his mother, by his father on January 19. The accused, S. K. Raju, is a warehouse employee. He had met his wife Sushma on Facebook

Bengaluru, Feb 1: Despite a gag order issued by KPCC president Dinesh Gundurao on statements to the media, Congress legislators on Thursday continued to praise and swear allegiance to former chief minister Siddaramaiah, stoking discomfort with coalition partner the JD(S). Rajashekar B Patil, mines and geology department minister, and Koppal MLA Raghavendra K Basavaraj Hitnal on Thursday hailed

Mangaluru, Feb 1: The temple town of Dharmasthala is gearing up for the Mahamastakabhisheka of the 39-foot-tall Bahubali at Rathnagiri scheduled from February 9 to 18. A large group of Jain monks, led by Acharya Vardhamana Sagar Muni Maharaj, arrived in Dharmasthala yesterday. They were welcomed at the entrance to the temple town and taken in a procession to the Chandranatha Swamy Basadi by D

Bengaluru, Jan 31: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be visiting Karnataka twice in February to put the stage the BJP Challenge against reported combined fight by ruling coalition JD(S)-Congress combine ahead of the Lok Sabha elections in April-May. Talking to newsmen after preliminary meeting of the party leaders selected as members of the various LS election committees, Opposition leader in the

Bengaluru, Jan 31: The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Karnataka State President and former Minister N Mahesh, advised the Congress MLAs, not to make any statement, which would put the 7-month-old JD(S)-Congress coalition government on tricky wicket. In a statement here on Thursday, Mr Mahesh, who had to quit the Coalition government, following a directions from the BSP supremo Ms Mayavati recently, has

Mangaluru, Jan 31: Master Shan Mohammed Shareef, an 8-year-old Mangalurean boy, has bagged first place in national level Abacus competition held in Thane, Mumbai recent. Son of Hasan Shareef and Rasheeda Shareef couple from Bardila Kuppepadav in Mangaluru, Master Shan is currently a Class 3 student at Mirambika School for New Age in J P Nagar, Bengaluru. In the past, Master Shan has won state

Bengaluru, Jan 31: Charging that all the developmental works in Karnataka has come to standstill after JDS-Congress Coalition Government came to power, former Chief Minister and senior BJP leader Jagadish Shettar predicted that this coalition government will collapse on its own weight. Speaking to newsmen here on Thursday, he said that “the Karnataka Government, which has already raised about Rs