Bengaluru: Congress retained Davanagere South assembly seat but barely, as minority unrest and internal dissent sharply reduced its victory margin in what has long been a Shamanur family stronghold. Congress candidate Samarth Mallikarjun, grandson of late Shamanur Shivashankarappa, trailed in eight of the 21 rounds of counting before securing a win by 5,708 votes —…
Bengaluru: Yelahanka police Monday arrested a 44-year-old daily wage worker and three of his associates on charges of murdering a food delivery agent, whose body was found inside a rajakaluve (storm drain) in Yelahanka Friday last, with preliminary police investigations revealing that he was strangled to death. Police said the man was killed because he…
Bengaluru: Parents’ associations in Karnataka have urged the state govt to do as Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta has done: warned private schools against compelling parents to buy books and uniforms from specific vendors.Even though Karnataka has similar rules in place, they are hardly enforced anywhere. Several parents in the state have won favourable judgements…
Bengaluru: A clandestine relationship between a divorced man and a college professor met a gruesome end last week, with bodies of both found a day apart by police — the woman’s inside a car, completely charred, and the man’s on railway tracks, severed into pieces.C Ramanjinappa, 45, a resident of Marasandra near Rajanakunte, worked at…
Bengaluru: Citing the Supreme Court’s rulings in two maintenance cases, the Karnataka high court has directed a BHEL employee to pay Rs 15,000 per month as maintenance to his wife from the date of application till her lifetime. The husband is now required to pay the arrears from March 2016 within two months.The couple, both…
Bengaluru: Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium has launched a new sky show that retraces one of humanity’s longest-running space missions, the journey of Nasa’s twin Voyager spacecraft that continue travelling beyond the solar system nearly five decades after launch.Titled “Voyager – The Never-Ending Journey”, the 33-minute programme opened to the public on April 30 and combines a…
Election officials in Davanagere South had to break open the EVM strong room due to a missing key, briefly delaying the bypoll counting. DAVANAGERE/BENGALURU: A dramatic start to counting day in Karnataka’s Davanagere South bypoll saw election officials forced to break open the EVM strong room after the key went missing, briefly delaying the process…
Bengaluru: Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) has filed a writ petition before the Karnataka high court, with the filing dated April 27 and registered April 29, seeking clarity on applicability of Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016, to its residential layouts and schemes.The petition has named Union of India, Karnataka govt, and Karnataka Real Estate…
Bengaluru: A 35-year-old south Bengaluru woman has accused an astrologer of sexual exploitation under the guise of spirituality.She lodged a complaint with Chennammanakere Achukattu police on April 27, claiming Mohan Kumar J, raped her.He is also accused of luring women with promises of solving personal and business problems through poojas and “diksha.”According to the complainant,…
Bengaluru: A 26-year-old auto-rickshaw driver, who was undergoing treatment after being assaulted by his acquaintance at Padarayanapura in West Bengaluru, succumbed to his injuries Saturday.The deceased was identified as Mubarak, a resident of 7th Cross in Padarayanapura, while the accused was identified as Tabrez, 46.Based on the primary investigation, police said Mubarak accused Tabrez of…
