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For much of the global economy, 2023 is going to be a tough year as the main engines of global growth – the US, Europe and China – all experience weakening activity, the head of the International Monetary Fund has warned. The new year is going to be “tougher than the year we leave behind,” IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva said on the CBS Sunday morning news program Face the Nation on

Ramnagar, Jan 2: A businessman in Ramnagar district of Karnataka shot himself dead and in his suicide note, he named a BJP MLA and five others, officials said on Monday. The victim was identified as 47-year-old Pradeep, a resident of Amalipura near HSR Layout in Bengaluru. He had mentioned the name of Mahadevapura constituency BJP MLA and former minister Arvind Limbavali and five others in his

New Delhi, Jan 2: In her minority judement on the verdict on demonetisation, Supreme Court Judge B V Nagarathna called the 2016 note ban "vitiated and unlawful". She said that the scrapping of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes should have been done through legislation, not notification. The only dissenting judge in the five-bench panel which upheld the Modi government’s demonetisation exercise on Monday

Mangaluru, Jan 1: Mangaluru International Airport will carry out major rehabilitation/recarpeting work on its runway 06/24 for a little over four-month period starting from January 27, 2023. The work will take place from 9.30am to 6pm from Monday to Saturday on all days except Sunday and national holidays until May 31, 2023. Airlines will be operating their schedules prior to 9.30am and after 6pm

Nearly 31,000 complaints of crimes committed against women were received by the National Commission for Women (NCW) in 2022, the highest since 2014. In 2021, the NCW had received 30,864 complaints while in 2022, the number slightly increased to 30,957. Of the 30,957 complaints, the maximum of 9,710 were related to the right to live with dignity that takes into account the emotional abuse of women

Shivamogga, Jan 1: A 34-year old youth, who sustained injury, when an elderly man fired at him while loading his rifle by chance during New Year celebrations last night, died in a private hospital today. According to police, Manjunath Olekar, (67) was partying with his son and son's friends at his residence in Vidyanagar in the city on December 31st night as part of new year celebrations

New Delhi, Jan 1: A series of assembly polls this year are being considered as semi-finals to the Lok Sabha election slated to be held in the summer of 2024. Key states of Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Telangana would go for polls this year, besides states from the northeast. The northeastern states of Nagaland, Tripura and Meghalaya will be the first to have assembly

Kiccha Sudeep brought down the curtains on the ninth season of Bigg Boss Kannada. The grand finale night was fun and exciting and had many dance performances. Sudeep took the fun factor to another level with his hosting skills and even raised the hand of Mangalurean actor-RJ Roopesh Shetty in victory. After defeating fellow housemates and spending over 100 days locked up inside the Bigg Boss house

Mangaluru, Jan 1: Two persons including a social worker lost their lives in a ghastly road mishap involving a car and a bus on Venur-Guruvayanakere near Gardadi in Belthandy taluk of Dakshina Kannada today morning. The deceased are Naushad Haji Suralpady, a social worker and Muslim community leader, and car driver Musharraf Ulaibettu. Both of them reportedly breathed their last on the spot when

Bengaluru, Dec 30: Three members of the Christian community, who had reportedly extended financial help to a few poor families, have now been booked by the police in western Bengaluru under the new law on religious conversion. The trio is now facing the charge of distributing handbills and "offering" financial support to those who change their religion near Doddamma Temple in JJ Nagar on Wednesday