Karnataka

Hubballi, Dec 22: The Karnataka Cabinet expansion by the ruling JDS-Congress government headed by Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy in the evening today will lead to further dissent among the Congress Legislators who are already displaying their dissatisfaction over the functioning of the coalition government where the party had been relegated to second place despite winning 80 seats compared to JD(S

Bengaluru, Dec 22: 35 flights departing from Bengaluru and 13 coming into the city were delayed on Saturday morning as thick fog lowered visibility. Moreover, two flights were diverted to Chennai. Operations at the Kempegowda International Airport were suspended from 6:30 am to 7:30 am on Friday, while visibility standby was declared at 5:31 AM this morning. Airport officials said this was lifted

Abu Dhabi, Dec 21: Shamnad was all prepared to attend his brother's wedding on Saturday. He reached the Abu Dhabi airport in advance on Thursday night with his family - wife, a four-year-old and two-month-old - for their flight to Kozhikode, Kerala on Friday. And on Friday evening, a tired Shamnad explained to Khaleej Times the struggle the family went through after a 16.30-hour delay of Air India

Bengaluru, Dec 21: Customers were left in the lurch as Banking Services were crippled in Karnataka as public sector bank staff and officers unions joined nationwide agitation on Friday demanding immediate wage revision and protested against merger of the State-owned banks. However, the private sector banks functioned normally. Customers of Public sector banks had hard time as their visits to the

Belagavi, Dec 21: In a major relief to SC, ST and OBC candidates, the Karnataka Legislature on Friday passed a Bill that allows meritorious candidates of reserved category to be counted in the general category also. The Bill was passed amidst dharna by the opposition BJP members in the Legislative Assembly, the Karnataka Civil Services (Procedure For Selection of Candidates During Recruitment)

Mysuru/Chamarajanagara, Dec 21: The death toll in the Sulwedi temple ‘Prasada’ food poison case increased 16 with a 45 year-old devotee breathed last in a Private Hospital on Friday. Hospital sources said the deceased Nagesh who was admitted last week had been kept under ventilator and he died early in the morning. He was brother of temple Trustee Chinnappe. He had eaten the Prasad on last Friday

Mangaluru, Dec 21: Jamiyyatul Falah, a city-based charity organization in association with Dakshina Kannada Zillah Panchayath Public Education Department recently conducted Teachers Meet with Dakshina Kannada district schools to improve and enhance the result in forthcoming SSLC board examination at Jamiyyatul Falah Headquarters Auditorium in the city. The event started with the poem recitation

Bengaluru/Belagavi, Dec 21: The Karnataka state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party has started the process of putting in place a poll calendar of events for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. The issue was discussed at a meeting of the party’s legislators and district units’ presidents held in Belagavi on Thursday. As per plans, BJP supremo Amit Shah will kick-start the party State unit’s preparations

Panaji, Dec 21: The South Goa police arrested a 30-year-old man belonging to Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, on the charge of raping a 42-year-old British tourist and robbing her of her belongings on Thursday morning. The victim has been a regular visitor to Goa for the last several years, according to the police. Superintendent of Police (South Goa) Arvind Gawas said that CCTV footage obtained from the

The scene of violence in the name of emotive issues has been continuously throwing new patterns of instigating and orchestrating violence. In recent times we saw the major violence following the demolition of Babri Mosque (1992), Godhra train burning (Gujarat carnage 2002), murder of a Swami (Kandhamal 2008), on the pretext of love Jihad (Muzzafarnanger 2013) among others. The gross pattern seems