Bangalore: Amid discontent among MLCs jostling for ministerial berths, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday expanded his council of ministers by inducting SR Patil, a former leader of Opposition. Patil was administered the oath of office by Governor HR Bhardwaj at the Raj Bhavan. The induction of Patil, who enjoys a good equation with the Chief Minister, has apparently angered other MLCs who were in the race for the berth,...
01:22:01 PM May 25, 2013
Bangalore: A telephone call about a bomb being planted in the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) on Thursday created panic with the staff and the students being evacuated from the building but it turned out to be hoax. The call received at the IIMB reception at 12 noon sent the staff into a tizzy and in no time the building was evacuated as there was skeletal staff and very...
03:30:31 PM May 23, 2013
Bangalore: A passport scam has now surfaced in Karnataka. The state Lokayukta has indicted six senior government officers of taking bribes in return for issuing verification on passports. Over 1,000 such verifications were issued over a period of five months. The state anti-corruption unit in its report alleges that the senior officers, including a DGP-rank police officer and a retired IAS officer took bribes up to Rs 16,000 to verify...
10:01:32 AM May 22, 2013
Bangalore: Bangalore is fearing an acute water shortage in days to come. Municipal officials have warned that the city has water only for the next 15 to 18 days. Already residents like Hiral Dhilla, from Rajajinagar are forced to buy water from tankers nearly six times a month. This mother of two is now preparing for the worst. "Because Bangalore is expanding left, right and centre, it is going to...
08:59:26 AM May 20, 2013
Bangalore: Protests broke out in parts of Karnataka on Saturday as supporters of Congress leaders who failed to get berth in Cabinet expansion effected by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah gave vent to their anger. In the district headquarters town of Yadgir, Congress workers ransacked the party office and set fire to windows over denial of ministership to senior leader AB Maalaka Reddy, police said. In Ramanagara and Mandya, they held a...
02:46:35 PM May 18, 2013
Bangalore: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday expanded his Cabinet with the induction of 28 Ministers. Twenty were made Cabinet Ministers and eight Ministers of State. They were administered oath of office by Governor HR Bhardwaj at a ceremony at Glass House at Raj Bhavan. Those made Cabinet ministers are RV Deshpande, Qamar-ul-Islam, Prakash B Hukkeri, Ramalinga Reddy, TB Jayachandra, B Ramanath Rai, HK Patil, Shamanur Shivashankarappa, V Srinivasa Prasad,...
11:24:48 AM May 18, 2013
Bangalore: A month after an explosion took place opposite the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) office in Malleshwaram in Bangalore, police are yet to zero in on the person who had planted the bomb. The police, however, claim the investigation is on track as they have arrested 10 people so far. "We have arrested 10 people and they all are from Tamil Nadu. We cannot disclose the motive as it would...
01:07:19 PM May 17, 2013
New Delhi: In a twist in the Karwar Naval sex scandal case, CNN-IBN has learnt that the couple was separated and had filed for divorce by mutual consent in April this year. CNN-IBN also learnt that the father of the girl had filed a complaint to the Human Rights Commission and Defence Minister AK Antony alleging sexual abuse and dowry harassment. This after the husband agreed to paying Rs 8...
09:16:10 PM May 15, 2013
Mumbai: An Air India New Delhi-Bangalore flight had to make an unscheduled landing at Bhopal after the flight commander was locked out of the cockpit, an airline spokesperson said on Tuesday. The bizarre incident occurred on Monday when the flight commander of AI-403 went to the toilet briefly and returned to find the cockpit door locked. Despite all efforts from outside and inside by the co-pilot and a trainee pilot,...
10:21:52 AM May 15, 2013
Bangalore: The Indian Navy has been hit by yet another sex scandal. The wife of a Navy officer on Tuesday charged him of forcing her to get sexually involved with his colleagues. The complaint has prompted Defence Minister AK Antony to order a probe. The woman alleged that her husband, who is a Lieutenant Commander at the Naval Ship Yard in Karwar, forced her to perform sexual favours for his...
08:06:26 PM May 14, 2013
Did a roll number mix up lead a civil services aspirant to commit suicide? The UPSC, which runs the exams, has denied the allegation and has said IAS aspirant Manjunath never made it through the preliminary test. A 24-year-old IAS aspirant Manjunath committed suicide on Friday in Bangalore after a mix-up in the Civil services examinations result list. ...
07:51:28 PM May 13, 2013
Congress leader Siddaramaiah on Monday took oath as the new Chief Minister of Karnataka. The 64 year old backward class leader from Mysore took oath at the Kanteerava Stadium in Bangalore on Monday morning, attended by a crowd of about 50,000. ...
05:23:15 PM May 13, 2013
Bangalore: A 50 year-old Congress supporter died after attending the swearing-in ceremony of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah at the jam packed Kanteerava stadium in Bangalore on Monday, police said. The deceased was identified as Manjappa, a city resident, who collapsed near gate number seven while coming out after the function attended by nearly 50,000 Congress supporters from across the state. He was given water to drink, after which he complained of...
02:30:12 PM May 13, 2013
Bangalore: The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has denied the charge that the student YV Manjunath had cleared the exam. Manjunath had allegedly committed suicide on May 10, with the police stating that he was upset over a 'goof-up' in the UPSC results published in Bangalore. The UPSC Chairman has told CNN-IBN that the rank and roll number belonged to some other student. "There is no possibility of Manjunath having...
02:17:48 PM May 13, 2013
Bangalore: An IAS aspirant committed suicide in Bangalore on Friday, upset over a "mix-up" in the Civil Services Examinations results list. 24-year-old VY Manjunath was found hanging in an under-construction building near his residence in Madikeri. His family claims Manjunath had even tried to rectify "goof-up" and contacted Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) officials seeking clarification. "My son was very upset and had tried to rectify the mistake but there...
10:22:44 AM May 13, 2013
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