Mysuru: Over 6.90 lakh candidates across the State will appear for the II PU exams starting tomorrow at 10.15 am with fool-proof security in place. Tomorrow’s subjects are Economics and Physics. The examination session will end at 1.30 pm. This year, CCTV cameras have been installed at all 1,004 examination centres in the State and…
Money laundering case: Karti Chidambaram arrested
February 28, 2018Chennai: Senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram’s son Karti Chidambaram was arrested in Chennai this morning in a corruption case. He is accused of receiving kickbacks to clear foreign investment worth around Rs. 300 crore in television company INX Media, using the influence of his father, who was then the Union Finance Minister. The initial case…
Kanchi Seer Sri Jayendra Saraswathi passes away
February 28, 2018Chennai: Sri Jayendra Saraswathi Swamigal (82), the 69th Shankaracharya of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham, passed away today. He was admitted to a hospital this morning reportedly after a cardiac arrest. He assumed charge as the Peetadhipathi of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham on March 22, 1994 after the demise of the then Peetadhipathi, Sri Chandrasekharendra Sarawathi Swamigal. Being…
Constitution of Cauvery Management Board: Centre decides to elicit opinions from States
February 28, 2018Bengaluru: Even as Union Minister for Water Resources Nitin Gadkari was non-committal on a possible time frame for the constitution of the Cauvery Management Board, as mandated by the Supreme Court, the Centre has decided to elicit opinions on the constitution of the Board from Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry, the States involved in…
Cauvery water dispute: Don’t handle dispute with eye on Karnataka elections, DMK tells BJP
February 28, 2018Chennai: The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) yesterday flayed the BJP at the Centre on the Cauvery water dispute, saying it should not handle the matter with an eye on “electoral gains” in Karnataka elections, the upper riparian State in the river water sharing dispute. “The Prime Minister maintaining silence on the Cauvery issue by not…
Pramoda Devi Wadiyar seeks Khatha for Baby Betta, Doddakere Maidan
February 28, 2018Bengaluru: Member of the erstwhile royal family Pramoda Devi Wadiyar has urged the State Government to stop illegal mining at Baby Betta land in Pandavapura taluk of Mandya district and has asked the Government to issue Khatha for the 1,500 odd acres in her name as it is a private property belonging to Wadiyar family….
BJP to launch ‘Save Bengaluru’ padayatra on Mar.2
February 28, 2018Bengaluru: Accusing total breakdown of Law and Order in the State capital, the BJP will undertake a ‘Save Bengaluru’ Padayatra from Mar.2 to 15. Announcing this at a press meet here yesterday, MLA and former Dy.CM R. Ashok said that the Padayatra will cover all the 28 Assembly segments of the State capital, posing 10…
‘Monkeyman’ Jyothi Raj goes missing at Jog Falls
February 28, 2018He had gone down the Falls to retrieve a body Shivamogga: Jyothi Raj alias Kothi Raj, a rock climber from Chitradurga, who had gone down the Jog Falls to retrieve the body of a man from Bengaluru who had allegedly committed suicide by jumping into the Falls a few days ago, has reportedly gone missing…
Free darshan of Lord Venkateshwara at Tirupati for poor people
February 28, 2018Mysuru: There is a strong belief among people that all the sins committed in life would be wiped out if one visits Tirupati and has the darshan of Lord Venkateshwara. The poor go house to house begging for money and with funds thus collected visit Tirupati. To cater to this class of people, the founder…
Bollywood, scores of fans bid tearful farewell to Sridevi
February 28, 2018Mumbai: Thousands of flower carrying, prayer chanting fans and Bollywood actors are pouring into Mumbai’s Celebration Sports Club to pay last respects to film icon Sridevi, who died in Dubai over the weekend. The funeral will be held at 3.30 pm today with full State honours. The sudden death of the 54-year-old had shaken the…
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