Recent Views 34 Belagavi: BJP state president BY Vijayendra marked his birthday on Wednesday by joining sugarcane farmers protesting at Gurlapur Cross in Mudalagi taluk. The farmers have been staging an agitation, demanding a price of Rs 3,500 per tonne for sugarcane.Vijayendra visited the protest site on Tuesday evening and chose to spend the night…
Recent Views 35 Mangaluru: Mangaluru City police have invoked the Karnataka Control of Organised Crimes Act (KCOCA) against three persons accused of extortion in the Bajpe police station limits. The accused have been identified as Prashant alias Pachu, Ganesh, and Ashwith, city police commissioner Sudheer Kumar Reddy CH said.The case was registered following a complaint…
Recent Views 23 Mysuru: Mysore MP Yaduveer Wadiyar on Wednesday warned of launching a legal battle if the state govt goes ahead with the two flyover projects in the heart of the city.Speaking to reporters, he said that the flyovers proposed on Vinoba Road and Jhansi Rani Lakshmibai Road would cause irreversible damage to the…
Recent Views 13 Microsoft is reportedly introducing a new internal mechanism that allows employees to report concerns about how the company’s technologies are developed and deployed, as pressure mounts over its involvement in Israel’s military and surveillance operations. According to a report in Geekwire, Microsoft president Brad Smith has sent a memo to all employees…
Recent Views 19 Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu focuses on quality technical education and EV-Tech course for youth. (ANI Photo) SHIMLA: Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu has said that providing quality technical education to the students within the State was the focus of the present state government so as to equip…
Recent Views 21 Bengaluru: The high court has dismissed a writ appeal filed by the adopted son of a deceased KSRTC driver, seeking appointment on compassionate grounds because of policy exclusion and delay.“It is well-settled that compassionate appointment is a welfare measure adopted by the employer/govt/govt agencies to save the bereaved family of an employee…
Recent Views 12 Bengaluru: Chief minister Siddaramaiah said Wednesday that Karnataka’s higher GST collections were driven by increased public spending on welfare guarantee schemes. In a speech read out at the Fiscal Policy Institute, he said, “These schemes have neither burdened the exchequer nor fueled inflation. In fact, by increasing consumption at the bottom of…
Recent Views 23 KRISHNAGIRI: A woman and her boyfriend were arrested Wednesday on charges of installing a hidden camera in a bathroom of a hostel for Tata Electronics Pvt Ltd women employees in Krishnagiri district of Tamil Nadu, superintendent of police (SP) Thangadurai said in a statement. The accused are Neelukumari Gupta (22) from Odisha,…
Recent Views 10 Pic: HDMC mayor Jyoti Patil conducts the phone-in programmeHubballi: Mayor Jyoti Patil criticised officials of the Karnataka Urban Infrastructure Development and Finance Corporation (KUIDFC) over rising complaints about water supply during the mayor’s phone-in programme and directed them to address the issues immediately.In a phone-in programme held on Wednesday, the mayor received…
Recent Views 18 Udupi: Shri Vedavardhana Thirtha of Shiroor Mutt will ascend the Sarvajna Peetha for the first time on Jan 18, marking the commencement of his two-year term of performing Sri Krishna puja at the Udupi Krishna Mutt. A preliminary consultation meeting for the upcoming Paryaya will be held on Friday, said Paryaya welcome…
