BENGALURU: NR Santosh, the political secretary of Prime Minister BS Yediyurappa, is said to have attempted suicide at his Dollars Colony residence in Bengaluru on Friday. Santosh was found unconscious by members of his family at night in his reading room. He was rushed to the nearby MS Ramaiah hospital. …
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MYSURU / BENGALURU: Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa set another deadline for cabinet expansion, saying the delayed process will be completed in two to three days. Yediyurappa, who was in Mysuru on Wednesday, did not offer further details, prompting political circles and many in the BJP to wonder if the party’s …
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BENGALURU: Just six days after the state’s engineering and undergraduate faculties reopened, Karnataka’s health minister Dr. K Sudhakar said on Sunday that they could close again if coronavirus cases spike. The undergraduate, engineering and diploma colleges reopened on November 17 after eight months of closure due to the coronavirus-induced lockdown. …
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BENGALURU: Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Wednesday he hit Maharashtra Chief Deputy Minister Ajit Pawar for his comments on the merger of Belagavi and other Marathi-speaking areas in the state with Maharashtra. “I fully condemn Pawar’s statement, as it seeks to create conflict between people living in the border areas. …
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BENGALURU: The NIA conducted searches here on Wednesday, including at the offices of the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI), the political wing of the Popular Front of India (PFI), in relation to the riots and violent attacks on the police stations in the city in August, an official said. …
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BENGALURU: Former AIADMK leader VK Sasikala, who is serving a four-year jail sentence after being convicted in a disproportionate assets case, paid the Rs 10 million fine that the trial court imposed on him in the case. Muthukumar, a Chennai defender representing Sasikala, submitted four DDs for the fine amount …
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BENGALURU: Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa said on Friday that the state government will issue an order banning the use of firecrackers during Deepavali, due to the prevailing Covid-19 pandemic situation. “We have discussed it (cracker ban), we are taking the decision to ban the use of firecrackers during Deepavali. …
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BENGALURU / NEW DELHI: Relatives of actor Bineesh Kodiyeri staged a dharna in front of his residence in Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday, media reported. FILE: Sanjjanaa Galrani. TOI The event comes after the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) carried out multiple raids in Kerala on Wednesday, in connection with money laundering related …
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BENGALURU: Up to 16.4% of the surveyed population had developed IgG antibodies, indicating that they were infected with Covid-19 in the past in Karnataka, as revealed by a second round of sero-survey conducted to assess exposure to the SARS virus -Cov2. The results of the sero-survey were published here Wednesday. …
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BENGALURU: Although Bengaluru ranks second after Delhi in Covid-19 infections among the country’s cities, the drop in the positivity rate and the case fatality rate, two vital markers for assessing the spread of the virus, has begun to offer hope. “The virus has not disappeared from Bengaluru yet, but it …
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