TUMKUR: Police resorted to lathi-charge to disperse farmers from the Bangalore-Mangalore National Highway in front of the Kunigal taluk Agricultural Produce Market Committee office at Kunigal in Tumkur district on Wednesday evening. ...

BANGALORE: The Karnataka government has decided to impose 20 per cent loadshedding till the end of this month and 25 per cent in August on account of deficient rainfall and the low water level in hydel reservoirs. The State’s power ...

CHIKMAGALUR: Members of the Youth Congress staged a demonstration here on Wednesday to protest against the defection of Congress MLAs to the Bharatiya Janata Party. They criticised Ministers from Bellary district who are mine owners for having ...

PANAJI: About 50 writers from eight languages of the western and the southern region will participate in a two-day Western and Southern Writers’ meet to be held here on Saturday and Sunday. The meet is jointly organised by Sahitya ...

MULBAGAL: Kaiwar and Velur grama panchayats in undivided Kolar district have been recommended for Nirmal Grama Panchayat Puraskar. Girish, State training coordinating officer of Complete Sanitation Campaign announced this at a workshop on ...

KOLAR: The identity cards to be distributed to persons with disability have been given to the Child Development Project Officers in the taluks. Eligible persons can avail the cards from the respective CDPOs, the Handicapped and Senior ...

KOLAR: The counsellors in the Red Ribbon Express, camping at Bangarpet Railway station for the last three days, have provided counselling to about 500 people. In all, more than 5,000 visited the train. According to Sowmya, member of Deepika ...

CHAMARAJANAGAR: The ecological damage caused by unauthorised structures built on nearly 65 acres of forest land in the Biligiri Ranga Temple Sanctuary limits is irreparable, has said Deputy Conservator of Forests, Chamarajanagar Wildlife ...

CHITRADURGA: The district Congress here on Wednesday celebrated the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government winning the confidence motion in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. Party members gathered at Mahatma Gandhi Circle holding aloft ...

A five-day training course for professional bakers on healthy bakery foods will be conducted from August 8 at the Bakery Training Unit, UAS , Hebbal. Call 23513370 for ...

Bhagvad Gita Chapter 16: Swami Brahmananda, Bunts Sangha, Vijaynagar, 6.30 p.m. Maandukya Upanishad: K.G. Subraya Sharma speaks, Geetha Nilaya, 2nd Block, Thyagaraja Nagar, 9 a.m.

Bangalore: Meta-Culture Dialogics, a conflict resolution organisation, is presenting “Bengaluru Speaks”, an evening of uncommon conversation. “Bengaluru Speaks” is part of an effort to create a “culture of ...

Long queues at petrol stations have become common

It has gone up by 20 per cent in Bangalore city alone

Bangalore: The former president of the Kannada Sahitya Parishat Chandrashekar Patil has suggested that the Government publish theses related to the various aspects of the State submitted by scholars as part of their Ph.D. ...

Bangalore: The State Government, which retained 409 acres of the 4,301 acres of land acquired for the Bengaluru International Airport at Devanahalli, will allot 325 acres to various Central and State government institutions for creating ...

Prices drop after High Court order on medium of instruction

Bangalore: Wipro Ltd. has taken the ‘green computing’ concept further, launching Eco-eye chapters for its employees in Bangalore, Hyderabad, Kochi, Pune, Chennai, Kolkata and Delhi. The employees will interact with colleagues, ...

BANGALORE: The Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC) has despatched admission tickets to eligible candidates for the Competitive Examination to be held on July 27 for recruitment to 46 posts of Labour Inspectors in the Department of ...

BANGALORE: The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday came down heavily on a person for allowing his cellphone to ring in the court hall and a fine of Rs. 1,000 was imposed on him. Justice Mohan Shantangouder was hearing cases when the mobile ...

BANGALORE: In what could be described as a major embarrassment to Bangalore Electricity Supply Company (BESCOM), the Karnataka High Court on Wednesday set aside a contract it had awarded to private software firm Xygox Infotech Limited for ...

BANGALORE: The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday restrained the Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board (KIADB) from dispossessing an agriculturist of the land he owned in Jala hobli in Bangalore North taluk. Justice Huluvadi G. ...

BANGALORE: Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa told the Legislative Assembly that security will be provided to Bharatiya Janata Party MP for Bangalore North H.T. Sangliana and action will be taken against those who attacked his office here on ...

136 engineers allegedly involved in it; charge sheets to be filed soon

BANGALORE: Revenue Minister G. Karunakar Reddy on Wednesday said that 36 sub-registrars in 27 offices of Bangalore had violated the Government directive to desist from registering revenue properties. Replying to Bharatiya Janata Party ...

Basavaraj Bommai to call a meeting on the issue

BANGALORE: Former Minister M.C. Nanaiah was on Wednesday appointed Floor Leader of the Janata Dal (Secular) in the Legislative Council. N. Thippanna, who is officiating as Chairman of the House, announced the appointment on ...

BANGALORE: The BJP got a taste of its own medicine when some of its MPs defied the party whip and voted for the UPA Government on Tuesday, Congress leader M. Mallikarjun Kharge has said.Addressing presspersons here on Wednesday, Mr. Kharge ...

BANGALORE: Lokayukta N. Santosh Hegde on Tuesday said human rights violations are not only through violence, but also by acts of corruption. He was speaking at the inauguration of the University Grants Commission-sponsored foundation ...

Bangalore: It is perhaps the first time in the history of parliamentary democracy in Karnataka that five members of the Lok Sabha have either abstained from a crucial confidence vote or violated the whip of their respective parties. One ...

Entrepreneurs contribute to BERT- 27 initiative

Bangalore: Alternative Law Forum and “Good As You” present Sunil Gupta’s experience of “Flying within the Body – A Photographic Journey” on July 24 at 7:30 p.m. at the Institute of Baking and Cake Art on ...

BANGALORE: This one is for nature lovers. A nine-day exhibition of photographs of tigers titled “Vanishing Stripes” will be held at the Venkatappa Art Gallery on Kasturba Road here from July 26. It is being organised by ...

BANGALORE: Close on the heels of making an official announcement on enforcement of 20 per cent loadshedding in the State, the power utilities have appealed to the commercial categories of consumers to restrict their lighting consumption by ...

Bangalore: Around 60 workers of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday staged a protest against cross-voting by Bangalore North MP H.T. Sangliana. They later went to his office on Ali Askar Road and attacked it. The party workers reportedly ...

BANGALORE: There will be no power supply on Thursday between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. in the following areas: B Station: Dickenson Road, Hospital Road, Cubbon Road, Kamaraja Road, Commercial Street, Shivajinagar, ...

Garbage being dumped in a quarry near Bannerghatta National Park

Many units in Peenya Industrial Estate have halved production

It will enable BWSSB to supply additional 500 mld of water

Urge the Government to solve their problems

BANGALORE: Passports for applications in the following series processed at Bangalore Passport office have been despatched during the week ending July 18. A series (June 17), B series (June 12), C series (June 13), E series (July 4), J series ...

Bangalore: The city’s Christ College has been granted deemed university status by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, and a notification in this regard was issued on Tuesday. Confirming this, Augustine Thottakkara, who has ...

Suitable amendment to BWSSB Act will enable it to reuse water

BANGALORE: LSI Corporation, an electronic chip manufacturing company in the city, distributed free bags, notebooks, pen, pencils, erasers and geometry boxes to around 600 children here on Tuesday. The programme was organised at the ...

Bangalore: The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) on Tuesday clarified that the garbage collection fee of Rs. 1 a kg has been fixed following the request of representatives of commercial establishments. BBMP Commissioner S. ...

Belgaum: Farmers of Kamkaratti, six km from here on the Pune-Bangalore Express Highway (NH4), on Wednesday marched to the office of the Deputy Commissioner to re-assert their stand against handing over their agricultural land to the ...

Belgaum: The best way for developing countries to catch up with the developed ones is to promote entrepreneurship. With a view to expose students of engineering colleges affiliated to VTU to entrepreneurship as an alternative career, the ...

The project is estimated to cost Rs. 30 crore

BIDAR: Siddarama (57), a resident of Vaddangera in Humnabad taluk, was found murdered at a bus shelter in Warwatti (K) village on Tuesday, according to the police. Humnabad police have registered a case. ...

BIDAR: Six people were arrested on Wednesday in Aurad taluk in connection with theft of two-wheelers. On the information given by the arrested, the police have recovered 17 two-wheelers and a computer. The police identified the ...

Agricultural activities have come to a standstill in the district

Bijapur: Steps have been taken to curb anti-social activities such as “matka” and gambling and sale of illicit liquor in Bijapur district, Superintendent of Police Arun Chakravarthy has said. Speaking at a public meeting at Indi ...

Standing crops on 40,000 acres of land may be lost owing to failure of rainfall

‘UPA won the trust vote by luring Opposition MPs’

HASSAN: The Red Ribbon Express which is on a mission to educate people on HIV/AIDS through interactions and cultural programmes is all set to arrive in Hassan on July 30. Coordinator of the Nehru Youth Centre Nataraj said here on Tuesday ...

HASSAN: Executive engineer, Hemavathi Reservoir Division, Gorur Srirangaraju said here on Wednesday that the Irrigation Consultative Committee of the Vatehole Reservoir, in a meeting on July 19, decided to release water on an “on and ...

HASSAN: The Hassan district unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday took out a protest rally from the Hemavathi statue to the Deputy Commissioner Office where they staged a dharna. District party secretary Kamal Kumar and ...

Sowing activities may resume in a few taluks

HUBLI: There twin cities witnessed celebrations and protests on Wednesday over the United Progressive Alliance Government winning the trust vote on Tuesday. While it was celebration time for the Congress leaders and activists; for the ...

HUBLI: As per the revised itinerary, the Red Ribbon Express, which aims to create awareness on HIV/AIDS, will reach Bangalore Cantonment at 5 a.m. on July 24 and will be stationed there for three days, according to a release. The train ...

Special package to be implemented in Kodagu

Madikeri: Officials of the Survey Department here, on Wednesday, conducted a survey of the property belonging to the Gaddige (or Gadduge) — mausoleums of the former rulers here — to ascertain the extent of encroachments. Gaddige is ...

Madikeri: Members of the Bhakta Jana Sangha and Sri Iggutappa Temple Management Committee, on Wednesday, offered special puja and prayers to the presiding deity of Kodagu, Sri Iggutappa, at the temple in Padi, near Kakkabe, in Madikeri taluk ...

He was presented a certificate, a baton and a cap

30 trees were felled before permission was withdrawn

MANGALORE: The Airports Authority of India in collaboration with Kasturaba Medical College organised a first-aid training programme for newly recruited fire service personnel at its airport at Bajpe here on Wednesday. The Dharmadhikari ...

MANGALORE: The Karnataka Konkani Sahitya Academy will supply textbooks in Kannada and Devanagari scripts to students of classes VI and VII who choose to study Konkani as the third language. A press release from Registrar of the academy ...

MANGALORE: A crime detection squad headed by city sub-division Deputy Superintendent of Police D. Dharmaiah on Tuesday arrested a person and seized ganja worth Rs. 10,000 from him. The team, based on a tip-off, arrested Zainuddin, a ...

Two CDs of Ravishankar Mishra to be released

Folk artistes will stage street plays and magic shows

It will study how government programmes for schoolchildren are implemented

MYSORE: Members of the district unit of the Dalit Sangharsh Samiti (DSS) staged a dharna in front of the Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Development Corporation office in Lakshmipuram on Wednesday, urging Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa to launch a probe ...

MYSORE: Safai karamcharis have threatened to launch an agitation if the Government does not fulfil their demands, which includes bringing their slums under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) to construct houses for ...

TUMKUR: The Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) wing of the Tumkur District Congress Committee has criticised Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa on two of his budget proposals: retirement age of government officials and the opening of ...

Manorama’s ouster may change political climate in Udupi