Bengaluru: City police will soon launch a special drive to weed out foreigners who overstay their visas.The drive comes against the backdrop of cops booking 116 house owners since 2022 for renting their premises to foreigners without informing the local police and the Foreigners’ Regional Registration Office (FRRO), and violating the Immigration and Foreigners Act….
Bengaluru: The forthcoming socio-educational survey, commonly referred to as the caste census, has rekindled a debate on scrapping Karnataka Protection of Right to Freedom of Religion Act, 2022 — or commonly the anti-conversion law.Enacted by the BJP govt, the law denies benefits of reservation to those who convert to other religions. When reminded Monday by…
Bengaluru: The district and taluk hospitals in Karnataka are set to receive 185 new medical staff for their intensive care units (ICUs).The posts of two specialist doctors (physician/anesthetist) each for 19 district hospitals and one specialist doctor each for 147 taluk hospitals will be newly created, according to a govt order on Tuesday. In its…
Bengaluru: A convicted prisoner who was admitted to Kidwai hospital for oral cancer treatment escaped Monday. CCTV cameras installed in the hospital showed the prisoner, Chaitanya Kalyani, 34, from Vijayapura district, fleeing the premises, police said.Chaitanya was convicted in a theft case for three years and lodged at Vijayapura jail. He was shifted to Bengaluru…
Dharwad: Energy minister KJ George said that the recruitment of 3,000 linemen and 1,500 assistant and junior engineers has been completed. Counselling is underway and their postings will be issued within the next month.Speaking to reporters in Dharwad on Tuesday, after a review meeting with Hescom officials, the minister admitted that a severe shortage of…
ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು: ರೇಣುಕಾಸ್ವಾಮಿ ಕೊಲೆ ಪ್ರಕರಣದಲ್ಲಿ ಬಂಧಿತರಾಗಿರುವ ನಟ ದರ್ಶನ್ ಅವರ ವಕೀಲರು, ದರ್ಶನ್ರನ್ನು ಬಳ್ಳಾರಿ ಜೈಲಿಗೆ ಸ್ಥಳಾಂತರಿಸಲು ಕೋರಿ ಸಲ್ಲಿಸಿದ್ದ ಅರ್ಜಿಯನ್ನು ನ್ಯಾಯಾಲಯ ವಜಾಗೊಳಿಸಿದೆ. ಈ ಆದೇಶವು ದರ್ಶನ್ ಮತ್ತು ಅವರ ತಂಡಕ್ಕೆ ತಾತ್ಕಾಲಿಕ ಸಮಾಧಾನ ತಂದಿದೆ. ಇದರ ಜೊತೆಗೆ, ಜೈಲಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಕನಿಷ್ಠ ಮೂಲಭೂತ ಸೌಲಭ್ಯಗಳನ್ನು ನೀಡುವಂತೆ ನ್ಯಾಯಾಲಯ ಸೂಚಿಸಿದೆ.ಕಳೆದ ಕೆಲವು ದಿನಗಳಿಂದ ಜೈಲಿನಲ್ಲಿ ದೊರೆಯುತ್ತಿರುವ ಸೌಲಭ್ಯಗಳ ಕೊರತೆ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ದರ್ಶನ್ ಕಣ್ಣೀರು ಹಾಕಿದ್ದು, “ನನಗೆ ಬದುಕಲು ಆಗುತ್ತಿಲ್ಲ, ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ವಿಷ ಕೊಡಿ” ಎಂದು ನ್ಯಾಯಾಲಯದ ಮುಂದೆ…
Karnataka showcases 5,000-year-old rock art and burial sites BENGALURU: A boar engraved beneath a massive rock using red ochre; a woman birthing her child painted in a similar fashion. These 4,000 to 5,000-year old sketches, extending several feet on the ceiling of a massive cave, are a mystery in themselves. How did the Neolithic humans…
Ventriloquist Jaanu during a performance BENGALURU: Her puppet sings, cracks jokes, and even whispers back late at night, easing her deepest pain. For Jaanu, a 25-year-old transwoman ventriloquist in the city, her art is the ticket she hopes will one day mend ties with her family in Raichur. Jaanu won scores of accolades for her…
ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು: ದೇಶ ಸೇವೆಗೆ ಧುಮುಕುವ ಮಹದಾಸೆ ಹೊಂದಿರುವ ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದ ಹಿಂದುಳಿದ ವರ್ಗಗಳ ಅಭ್ಯರ್ಥಿಗಳಿಗೆ ರಾಜ್ಯ ಸರ್ಕಾರವು ಉತ್ತಮ ಅವಕಾಶ ಕಲ್ಪಿಸಿದೆ. ಭಾರತೀಯ ಸೇನೆ ಹಾಗೂ ಇತರೆ ಸಮವಸ್ತ್ರಧಾರಿ ಸೇವೆಗಳಿಗೆ ಸೇರಲು ಬಯಸುವ ಯುವಕರಿಗೆ, ಹಿಂದುಳಿದ ವರ್ಗಗಳ ಕಲ್ಯಾಣ ಇಲಾಖೆಯ ವತಿಯಿಂದ ಉಚಿತ ವೃತ್ತಿ ಮಾರ್ಗದರ್ಶನ ಮತ್ತು ಪೂರ್ವಸಿದ್ಧತಾ ತರಬೇತಿಯನ್ನು ನೀಡಲು ಅರ್ಜಿಗಳನ್ನು ಆಹ್ವಾನಿಸಲಾಗಿದೆ. ಅರ್ಜಿ ಸಲ್ಲಿಸಲು ಪ್ರಮುಖ ದಿನಾಂಕಗಳು ಮತ್ತು ಷರತ್ತುಗಳು:ಇಚ್ಛೆಯುಳ್ಳ ಅಭ್ಯರ್ಥಿಗಳು ತಮ್ಮ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ ಅಥವಾ ತಾಲ್ಲೂಕಿನ ಹಿಂದುಳಿದ ವರ್ಗಗಳ ಕಲ್ಯಾಣ ಇಲಾಖಾ ಕಚೇರಿಗಳಿಂದ ನಿಗದಿತ…
BENGALURU: A sessions court judge from Punjab is the latest to fall victim to cyberfraud, losing Rs 12,000 after he tried to book a room at a govt guesthouse in Bengaluru.The victim was made to pay Rs 12,150 through two online bank transactions in advance, but once he arrived at the guesthouse, he realised there…
