Bengaluru: Stung by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “10 per cent commission” jibe against his government, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday said Modi was, in fact, a facilitator of corruption. “You made common people stand in queues to deposit their money in the banks (referring to the note ban in[Read More…]
Mysuru: Attacking the Congress government in Karnataka as a “commission” government, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said the welfare of the people was never its priority and the state needs a government with “mission” under the BJP to ensure all-round development. Addressing a public rally in the city, the Prime[Read More…]
Bengaluru: Karnataka Congress legislator N.A. Haris’ son and expelled state Youth Congress leader Mohammed Nalapad surrendered a day after he was booked on Sunday in an assault case, police said on Monday. “Nalapad surrendered to us at the Cubbon Park police station where a case was booked against him for[Read More…]
Bengaluru: With an eye on Assembly election, due in late April or early May, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday presented a popular state budget for fiscal 2018-19 to please all sections of society. Barring 8 per cent increase in additional excise duty on Indian-made liquor, the budget spared the[Read More…]
Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, who also holds the Finance portfolio, would set a record of sorts on Friday by presenting his 13th state budget and 6th in a row, an official said on Wednesday. Siddaramaiah will present the budget for 2018-19 on Friday though it will not be a full-fledged[Read More…]
Koppal: Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Sunday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to waive loans of farmers than working only for the rich, businessmen and industrialists. “Though the Modi government works for the rich, businessmen and industrialists, I urge the Prime Minister to waive loans of farmers who are the[Read More…]
New Delhi: Denying that the Karnataka government is implementing the Mukhya Mantri Anila Bhagya Yojane (MMABY) in collaboration with the Centre, the Union Petroleum Ministry on Tuesday said that the state is going ahead with scheme directly without involving the national oil marketing companies (OMCs), and thus does not have the[Read More…]
Panaji: Karnataka has already started diverting water from the Mhadei river which would have otherwise flowed into Goa, its Water Resource Minister Vinod Palienkar said on Saturday and termed Kannadigas “harami” (illegitimate). He later said that the abuse was uttered in the spur of the moment and requested the media[Read More…]
Five men were killed on Monday in a fire at a bar here, police said. “The victims were charred to death in the fire at Kailash Bar & Restaurant in the K.R. Market area between 2.30-3 a.m., while they were asleep on the ground floor of the building,” Bengaluru Deputy[Read More…]
Karnataka will purchase 640 electric vehicles under the Central government’s Fame India subsidised scheme, an official said on Monday. “We have received approval from the Department of Heavy Industries to purchase the electric vehicles under the National Electricity Mobility Mission of the Central government’s Fame India scheme,” the statement said.[Read More…]
Meet, Nagratna Sunil Ramgowda, a courageous woman from Belagavi who has been giving hopes to the hundreds of hopeless people around Karnataka. Nagratna had no idea how her destiny will take a turn when she was told that she and her husband are HIV positive. The doctors had clearly told[Read More…]
The Karnataka assembly on Wednesday here passed a bill to regulate the functioning of private hospitals across the state. “The Karnataka Private Medical Establishments Act (Amendment) Bill 2017 has been passed in the Assembly by voice vote after discussion on its various provisions by lawmakers of the ruling and opposition[Read More…]
Private hospitals across Karnataka, including Bengaluru would reopen their Out Patient Departments (OPDs) on Friday on the advice of the Karnataka High Court on Thursday, said two official of the medical associations. “OPDs in all private hospitals across Bengaluru will re-open on Friday as advised by the High Court bench,”[Read More…]
Hundreds of private hospitals across Karnataka on Thursday shut their OPDs again as thousands of doctors intensified their strike against the penal provisions in the amendment bill to the KPME Act drafted by the government. The four-day strike began on Tuesday. The OPDs were also shut on November 3. “OPDs[Read More…]
Security has been tightened across Karnataka on Friday to ensure peaceful celebration of the state-sponsored Tipu Sultan Jayanti in honour of the erstwhile Mysore ruler amid protests by the right-wing opposition. Additional forces, including the paramilitary troopers have been deployed in Bengaluru, Kodagu, Mandya, Mysuru and Mangaluru across the southern[Read More…]
People living in Karnataka should learn Kannada, said Karnataka chief minister, Siddaramaiah on Wednesday emphasizing that not knowing regional language would mean showing disrespect to it. “Everyone who lives here is a Kannadiga. Whoever lives in Karnataka should learn Kannada and make their children learn it too,” Siddaramaiah said while[Read More…]
Kannada film superstar Upendra on Tuesday announced the formation of a new political party which will contest the coming assembly elections in Karnataka early next year. “I want my party to be run by the people for the people to meet their needs. It is an open platform for people[Read More…]
Mandya: Thirteen persons, including 10 women, and a five-year-old child were killed when a mini-truck they were travelling in rammed into a huge tree here, police said on Monday. “There was also a sort of stampede as people scrambled to get out of the vehicle after the accident,” a police officer[Read More…]
The CBI has registered a case of abetment of suicide against Karnataka Minister KJ George and two senior Karnataka police officials in connection with the suicide of Deputy Superintendent of Police MK Ganapathy. Apart from George, who was then the state Home Minister and is now holding the portfolio of[Read More…]
In a sad incident, at least four people were killed following a cylinder blast in Bengaluru on Monday morning. As a result of the blast, four houses partially collapsed due that led to the deaths. Several people are feared trapped under the debris in Ejipura area. “An LPG cylinder exploded[Read More…]
The Karnataka government on Wednesday dismissed reports that “preferential treatment” was being given to AIADMK leader VK Sasikala at the central jail and said that she was being treated like any other prisoner. “There is no truth in reports suggesting that Sasikala and (her relative) Elavarasi have been given preferential[Read More…]
In another horrific incident, a four-year-old girl has been sexually assaulted at a private school in Bengaluru, allegedly by a member of the school staff. The incident comes days after a seven-year-old boy was brutally murdered in a school in Gurugram, allegedly by a bus conductor. The matter was reported[Read More…]
BJP MLA from Karnataka, DN Jeevaraj, on Thursday generated much controversy by stating that senior journalist, Gauri Lankesh, was killed for writing against the right wingers. While flagging off a BJP Yuva Morcha rally, Jeevaraj suggested that Gauri was killed because she published a story with the headline “Chaddigala Marana[Read More…]
Ever since senior journalist, Gauri Lankesh, was shot dead outside her home on Tuesday evening, there have been protests and candle light vigils. Several people protested at Rajarajeshwari Nagar through the night demanding justice for the journalist. A candlelight vigil was also held in Karnataka’s Gulbarga for Lankesh on Tuesday[Read More…]
Months after the government issued an order to employ physical education teachers at government PU colleges that have over 500 students, no measures have been taken yet. According to the statistics from the department of pre-university education, there are only 20 physical education teachers across Karnataka. This was revealed by[Read More…]
