Bangalore (IANS): Infosys' co-founder N.R. Narayana Murthy, who returned to steer India's second largest IT bellwether a
year ago as executive chairman, is stepping down June 14 and cutting
short his second innings by four years because he says he has fulfilled
his "obligations".
Friday, 13 June 2014
Thursday, 12 June 2014
Ugandan FM elected UN General Assembly president
United Nations, June 12 (IANS) Ugandan Foreign Minister Sam Kutesa was elected president of the 69th session of the UN General Assembly, media reported Thursday.
Man arrested for raising funds using fake letter head of masjid
Bantwal : Public have trapped red handed a man who was resorting to cheating on the pretext of raising funds for the marriage of girls hailing from poor families, through a written appeal in a fake letter head and seal of the local masjid
Lokayukta complaint against a well in a playground!
Bantwal : In a rather queer case, residents of Aladka in Panemangalore have complained to the Lokayukta to look into the case of an open well located in a playground at Aladka in Panemangalore since the past several years and which has been rendered useless.
Tuesday, 10 June 2014
Rs 20 lakh each to 21 GPs under Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan : ZP Chief
Mangalore : Zilla Panchayat President Asha Timmappa Gowda has said that a grant of Rs 20 lakh each has been sanctioned to 21 gram panchayats for solid and liquid waste management under the Nirmal Bharath Abhiyan.
Monday, 9 June 2014
Attack on Pakistan airport leaves 23 dead
Islamabad, June 9 (IANS) : At least 23 people, including 10 terrorists, were killed at Pakistan's Jinnah International Airport in Karachi after it came under attack Sunday night, a leading Pakistani daily reported.
Ashwini Angadi's Dream Project 'Belaku Academy' School For the Blind
Bangalore: UN Awardee visually challenged Bangalorean girl Ashwini Angadi's, dream project Ashwini Angadi Trust, 'Belaku Academy' a residential school for visually impaired children was inaugurated in Bangalore on 6th of June, 2014 by Jnana Peetha Awardee Dr. Chandrashekar Kambar at No. 9, Supraja Nagar, 7th Cross, Konankunte, Bangalore.
24 Hyderabad students washed away in Himachal, CM orders probe
Shimla, June 9 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh has ordered a probe in which at least 24 students, including six girls of an engineering college in Hyderabad, were reported missing after strong currents in the Beas river in Pradesh's Mandi district washed them away Sunday evening.
Wednesday, 4 June 2014
Quenching on Ice: Heaven or Hazard?
NewsKarnataka - Exculsive
Investigative Reports By : Sandhya Soans , Alfi D'Cruz & Wilson Pereira
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The port city Mangalore experienced 40 Celsius this summer. This was the highest temperature ever recorded in the history of the Costal Belt. Many people tried to quench their thirst by opting for roadside golas, sugarcane juice and other ice related delicacies. Definitely, these are effective heat beaters.
Munde's mortal remains consigned to flames
Beed (Maharashtra), June 4 (IANS) The mortal remains of senior BJP leader and union minister Gopinath Munde, who was killed in a road accident in New Delhi Tuesday, were consigned to the flames in Parali-Vaijnath, his birthplace in Beed district, Wednesday afternoon.
Tuesday, 27 May 2014
List of ministers in Narendra Modi's government
New Delhi, May 27 (IANS): The portfolios in the new government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced Tuesday:
NPA's and Black Money - Time to act...
Newskarnataka - Exclusive
by Brian Fernandes
News Item reproduced from the Daily Mail Website dated 25/5/2014: A billionaire businessman has been executed in Iran for his part in a $2.6 billion state bank scam following the largest fraud case since the country's 1979 Islamic Revolution.
News Item reproduced from the Daily Mail Website dated 25/5/2014: A billionaire businessman has been executed in Iran for his part in a $2.6 billion state bank scam following the largest fraud case since the country's 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Saturday, 24 May 2014
Mamata not to attend Modi's swearing-in, but send representatives
Kolkata (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will stay away from the swearing-in ceremony of Narendra Modi as prime minister May 26, but send two of her close associates to the event, a state minister announced Friday.
Monday, 19 May 2014
A defeat that saved HDK of criticisms!
Bangalore: Former chief minister and JD(S) leader HD Kumaraswamy who was subject to constant criticisms from his opponents stating he was being responsible for frequent bye-elections, has however this time saved of the criticisms by suffering a defeat.
We have kept our promises: CM
Bangalore : “Nudidanthe Nadediddeve” ( We have translated our words into deeds) –This is the name of the booklet based on the achievements of the Congress government, which was released by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Monday May 18 to commemorate his government’s completion of one year in office.
All Kerala MPs on other side of Modi divide
Thiruvananthapuram, May 19 (IANS) Now that the dust has settled down after the Lok Sabha polls and the spotlight shifts to parliament, there is one thing you can certainly expect from the 20 MPs from Kerala -- not say 'aye' in favour of prime ministerial nominee Narendra Modi.
Saturday, 17 May 2014
US media hails 'India's moment' in Modi's historic win
Washington, May 17 (IANS) The American media and foreign policy experts greeted the Narendra Modi-led BJP's historic election victory as "India's moment" and an opportunity to revitalise the economy and "shape the way India engages with the world".
PM thanks country, wishes BJP success in farewell address
New Delhi, May 17 (IANS) In his last address to the nation, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday acknowledged his debt to the country that empowered him, "an underprivileged child of Partition", to occupy the high office of prime minister and wished the incoming government every success.
Narendra Modi: From provincial to prime ministerial
"I believe God has chosen me," Narendra Modi had once said in the course of the election campaign that has catapulted the Gujarat chief minister to the very pinnacle of power as the next prime minister of India.
Cowshed catches fire, damage worth 2 lakh
Moodabidri: A cowshed belonging to Prabhakar Bhat Trustee of Shree Sitaramachandra Temple at Ashwathpurawas accidentally caught fire on Friday morning May 16.
Modi gets grand welcome in Delhi
New Delhi, May 17 (IANS): Thousands of BJP supporters gave a rousing welcome on Saturday to Narendra Modi, set to be India's prime minister, as he flew into Delhi and set out in a motorcade to the party headquarters.
It's celebration time in DK BJP camp
Mangalore : The victory of the BJP candidate Nalin Kumar Kateel by defeating Janardhana Poojary of the Congress by a margin of 1,43,709 votes has left the BJP camp elated.
Wednesday, 14 May 2014
Vijay Mallya, Poddar make joint offer to retain control of MCF
Mumbai :Vijay Mallya joined hands with Saroj Poddar Adventz group to retain a controlling stake in Mangalore Chemicals and fertilizers(MCF)company.
Tuesday, 13 May 2014
Satish Shetty - My wife has an illicit relationship with Nalin Kateel
Mangalore: “Mangalore MP Nalin Kumar Kateel, is in an illicit relationship with my wife Vinutha Shetty”,alleged Satish Shetty a business man from Mumbai.
Thursday, 8 May 2014
2 arrested for kidnapping 15 yr old girl
Bantwal : Bantwal Rural Police who have achieved a breakthrough in the investigation into the case of kidnap of a minor girl from Sarapady two months ago, have arrested two persons including the aunt of the girl.
Wednesday, 7 May 2014
Polling for 8th phase of Lok Sabha election begins
Bihar: The eighth and penultimate phase of the Lok Sabha 2014 is underway. A total of 64 constituencies went to the polls in this phase.
Monday, 5 May 2014
Rai pretends ignorant about Abhayachandra's threat to journalist
Mangalore: DK District in-charge Minister and State Minister for Forest and Ecology B Ramanatha Rai has pretended ignorant about the recent incident wherein State Minister Abhayachandra Jain allegedly threatened a journalist in Moodbidri.
Families hit by new monthly wage rule for Dubai visas
Dubai:Expatriates who want to sponsor their families are being refused visas after a change in rule meant those earning a basic monthly wage of less than Dh10,000 no longer qualify.
Is an Earthquake imminent in our neighborhood?
Udupi: “An earthquake is expected at any time - the sudden rising of clean and pure ground water is most probably a sign of an imminent earthquake”, said Dr Raveendra, Deputy Director of the Department of Mines and Geology expert.
Explosion in house near quarry kills mother-son duo
Mangalore : A woman and her son, both quarry workers and hailing from Tamil Nadu were killed and three others injured in an explosion in a house located near a stone quarry at Nelligudde Aikala near Kinnigoli on Sunday May 4. The injured were neighbours of the deceased.
Monday, 28 April 2014
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Wednesday, 26 March 2014
Tuesday, 25 March 2014
HDK to file nomination from Chikkaballapura tomorrow
Belgaum, Mar 25:
JD(S) leader and former chief minister HD Kumaraswamy will be filing
his nomination papers as a candidate from Chikkaballapura Lok Sabha
constituency on Wednesday, March 26.Speaking to the media here on Tuesday, March 25, Kumaraswamy said he was contesting from Chikkaballapura as per the wishes of the people of the district.
On the confusion over the candidature of former union minister and senior Congressman C.K. Jaffer Sharief from Mysore on a JD(S ticket, Kumaraswamy said Sharief had promised to contest on a JD(S) ticket, prior to leaving for Mecca. He had even taken along the B Form but has now sent a fax saying he would not contest.
Chikkaballapura LS constituency will see a fight between union minister Veerappa Moily, former minister of BJP BN Bache Gowda and HD Kumaraswamy.
Wednesday, 19 March 2014
BJP is playing dirty politics: Congress spokesperson Singhvi
Bangalore: “BJP is playing dirty politics by raking up
sensitive defence issues and spreading false information against Congress ahead of Lok Sabha polls,” Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu
Singhvi alleged during a press meet on Tuesday March 18.
Singhvi also stated that Congress could also resort to a counter
attack by asking the BJP as to how intruders were allowed to enter India in 1999 during the Kargil war when the NDA was in power. But,
the Congress has not done so and we are not going to do it over defence
matters, he added.
Further he said that if statistics are taken into consideration, then states like Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Haryana are in the first position in some parameters like human development index or economic growth while Gujarat was in sixth or seventh. “This clearly shows the deceit of Modi," he added.
Lastly Singhvi said that the people have to decide which government performed better and vote accordingly. During the press meet Congress chief G Parameshwar also addressed the meeting.
Further he said that if statistics are taken into consideration, then states like Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Haryana are in the first position in some parameters like human development index or economic growth while Gujarat was in sixth or seventh. “This clearly shows the deceit of Modi," he added.
Lastly Singhvi said that the people have to decide which government performed better and vote accordingly. During the press meet Congress chief G Parameshwar also addressed the meeting.
Friday, 14 March 2014
Friday, 28 February 2014
Thursday, 27 February 2014
Tata Motors to set up Jaguar Land Rover plant in Saudi Arabia
New Delhi, Feb 27 (IANS): India's largest automobile company Tata Motors is exploring the possibility of setting up a manufacturing plant for Jaguar and Land Rover in Saudi Arabia, the Gulf kingdom's industry minister said Thursday.
Economic slowdown has affected tax collections:CM
Bangalore: During the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday
February 26, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah while referring to the state budget, said that Karnataka may face a shortfall in tax revenue in the
present fiscal year.
Tuesday, 18 February 2014
Saturday, 15 February 2014
People missing their hero Kejriwal after his resignation
New Delhi, Feb 14 (IANS): Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's resignation has only raised his stock among the common people
of Delhi, the 'aam aadmi', who form his core support base and who
believe he will come back to power with a more emphatic majority and
play a larger national role after the general election.
Saturday, 18 January 2014
Thursday, 16 January 2014
SI Mallikarjun Bande death creates outrage at Gulbarga
Gulbarga: As the news of the death of sub-inspector
(SI) Mallikarjun Bande in Hyderabad trickled in, it triggered violence
at several places in Gulbarga city on January 15, Wednesday. The
district administration immediately clamped prohibitory orders in
Gulbarga city, Aland and Jewargi towns under Section 144 CrPC for 24
hours till 1 pm on Thursday January 16.
Wednesday, 15 January 2014
Tuesday, 14 January 2014
Monday, 6 January 2014
Saturday, 4 January 2014
BJP to protest against litterateur Chennabasappa
Madikeri: The BJP has joined the league along with
several other organizations which have been opposing well-known
litterateur Ko Chennabasappa, after he wrote about the Kodava people in
his recent book on Tipu Sultan.
