Bangalore : Former Union minister O Rajagopal is likely to be named the new governor of Karnataka. Rajagopal’s name figures among the seven cleared by the Modi government and sent to the President, said official sources on Friday. An announcement in this regard is expected to be made before the Budget Session of Parliament begins […]

Kabul: Taliban militants staged a suicide car bombing then engaged in a gunfight with security forces near the American consulate in the western Afghan city of Herat early Friday, officials said. An Afghan translator was killed, while several other people, including police, were wounded. Eyewitnesses however put the death toll at six. The Taliban claimed […]

Hyderabad: Demanding the Congress leadership not to go ahead with the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, state ministers and legislators from Seemandhra Tuesday began day-long fast here. The leaders belonging to Congress party sat on fast at the statue of Mahatma Gandhi in assembly premises. Twelve ministers, 29 members of assembly and six members of council […]

Mangalore : Mangalore’s well-known physician and professor of Medicine at AJ Institute of Health Sciences,  Dr B Devadas Rai has been elected Rotary District Governor of RI District 3180 for the year 2012-13. The new office bearers of the Rotary District will be installed at a function to be held at St Sebastian Hall in […]

Mangalore :  The District unit of the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) has said it would lodge a complaint with the State Governor  against the Vice Chancellor of Mangalore University, who, it is said has prevented Vital, a Malekudiya  student arrested on charges of Naxal links, from writing his annual exams. Vittal, a first […]

Udupi: Dr. M Veerappa Moily, an Epic writer and Union minister, charged BJP leader on Sunday of committing mistakes one after another in the last 4 years, as if they were under a curse, and he joked that they did not want to last for long. Speaking to reporters here on the sidelines of an […]

Bangalore: CM DVS Gowda, who met Governor Hans Raj Bhardwaj, on Tuesday had reiterated his cabinet choice of Justice S.R. Bannurmath, and Governor had once more rejected the candidate. Sadananda Gowda was wrong in pursuing the matter, but learnt his lesson, and Governor had the last laugh over the selection. When Gowda agreed to a […]

Bangalore : Janata Dal (Secular) in Karnataka will complain to Karnataka Governor H R Bhardwaj against ruling BJP’s ‘failure’ to properly administer the state ‘as conceded by its own top leaders,’ JD-S General Secretary Y S V Dutta said today. Addressing a press conference here, he said former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa, who was […]

Bangalore : Close on the heels of the resignation of Lokayukta Shivraj Patil, Karnataka lost another legal watchguard with the quitting of Upalokayukta Justice R Gururajan. Governor H R Bharadwaj today accepted the resignation of Justice Gururajan who had quit yesterday citing personal reasons. Raj Bhavan in a communique said the Governor accepted the resignation […]

Chennai : Former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K Rosaiah was on Wednesday sworn-in as the governor of Tamil Nadu. Madras high court Chief Justice M Y Eqbal administered the oath of office to Rosaiah at a function in Raj Bhavan in ChennaiHe succeeds Surjit Singh Barnala. The brief function was attended by Chief Minister J […]