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1.08 crore Karnataka voters flagged in SIR; Shivakumar seeks longer claims window
Shivakumar said that, as no election is due in Karnataka in the near future, "such an extension is eminently feasible", especially because the EC manual permits extensions. (File Photo) Karnataka Chief Minister D K Shivakumar Tuesday urged the Election Commission to extend the claims-and-objections period after 1.08 crore of the state’s 5.54 crore voters were flagged as absent, shifted, dead, duplicate and others (ASDDO), including 46.88 lakh in Bengaluru.
Gautam Adani’s ‘courtesy visit’ to Shivakumar triggers BJP attack over Bengaluru tunnel road
Shivakumar said Adani paid a "courtesy visit" after he became the chief minister and held discussions. (File Photos/Enhanced by AI) A meeting between Karnataka Chief Minister D K Shivakumar and Adani Group chairman Gautam Adani Sunday triggered a political row, with the BJP Monday alleging the meeting was linked to the group’s bid for Bengaluru’s proposed tunnel road project.
In Independence Day speech, Shivakumar formalises Bengaluru police split
The plan to split the 63-year-old Bengaluru police commissionerate is seen as a key project of the Congress government under Shivakumar. (File Photo). In his first Independence Day speech as the Karnataka Chief Minister, D K Shivakumar Saturday laid out what he described as a roadmap for Bengaluru’s next phase of development, including a formal announcement of the plan to reorganise the city’s police administration.
Rs 67 lakh debt, a blown-up SUV: Karnataka Police crack Bagalkot blast case
The blast toppled the SUV and left it in a mangled heap, and the debris was spread over a 40-metre radius from the vehicle in Karnataka's Bagalkot. (Express Photo/Enhanced using AI) The blast was meant to be a warning, not a killing. A farmer in Karnataka’s Bagalkot district allegedly used explosives to blow up the SUV of a liquor store owner who, along with his brother, was demanding repayment of a loan that had grown to Rs 67 lakh, the police said.
They robbed a Bidar bank and vanished. 19 months later, Karnataka cops caught them
The two accused arrested by Karnataka Police in connection with the Rs 93-lakh Bidar bank robbery. (Express Photo/Special Arrangement) For 20 days, Karnataka Police teams moved through Bihar’s Vaishali district, tracking two men wanted in connection with a Rs 93-lakh bank robbery in Bidar. Some officers posed as religious pilgrims while keeping watch on the suspects’ relatives and likely movements.
Massive blast destroys Karnataka businessman’s SUV, police probe if IED was used
The blast toppled the SUV and left it in a mangled heap, and the debris was spread over a 40-metre radius from the vehicle in Karnataka's Bagalkot. (Express Photo/Enhanced using AI) A parked SUV was blown apart in a late-night explosion outside a bar in Karnataka’s Bagalkot district Sunday, with the police investigating whether an improvised explosive device (IED) was used after recovering ammonium nitrate traces and a piece of wiring from the spot.
Aland ‘vote chori’ traced to an ‘OTPbazaar’, Bengal, an ‘SMSAlert’, US
In the Karnataka case involving a bid to illegally delete voter names, the system to bypass transmission of One Time Passwords to real phone numbers, while registering for online services of the Election Commission, was created using “virtual SIM cards” from a US-based website, SMSAlert. An SIT of the Karnataka CID, which is probing the attempts at deletion of names of 5,994 voters in the Aland Assembly constituency in Kalaburagi in the 2022-23 period, has found this.
What the NCRB 2023 Report reveals about growing cybercrimes in Karnataka
The latest report has once again thrust the state of Karnataka and the city of Bengaluru into the spotlight for burgeoning cyber crimes. The state of cybercrime in Karnataka The report reveals a 74 percent increase in cyber crimes registered in Karnataka in the year 2023 at 21,889 crimes when compared to 2022 when 12,556 crimes were reported. Bengaluru alone recorded 80 percent (17,631) of the total cyber crimes reported in Karnataka, and a 77 per cent increase from 9,940 in 2022.
change pattern posting threat letters Karnataka writers led arrest right-wing school dropout
Written by Johnson TA Karnataka Crime: A school dropout accused belonging to a right-wing Hindutva group was nabbed by the Bengaluru Central Crime Branch (CCB) police. Isha had allegedly written dozens of letters to prominent Kannada literary figures over the past two years threatening their lives, accusing them of being anti-national. Recently an anomaly was encountered in the pattern of posting of his letters. Police reached him with the help of him.
Retinoic acid is dispensable for meiotic initiation but required for spermiogenesis in the mammalian testis
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Comparative analyses define differences between BHD-associated renal tumour and sporadic chromophobe renal cell carcinoma
doi: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2023.104596. Online ahead of print. Affiliations Affiliations 1 Department of Urology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, 3-9 Fuku-ura, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 236-0004, Japan; Laboratory for Cancer Genomics, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 230-0045, Japan. 2 Laboratory for Cancer Genomics, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 230-0045, Japan.
Hung Assembly a possibility in Karnataka polls, BJP and Congress take aim at JD(S)
Listen to this article Hung Assembly a possibility in Karnataka polls, BJP and Congress take aim at JD(S) x 00:00 1x 1.5x 1.8x Ahead of the Assembly polls, both national parties in the fray in Karnataka — the ruling BJP and the opposition Congress — seem to have arrived at the realisation that the only way either of them can win a clear majority is by ensuring that the third force in the state — the regional Janata Dal (Secular) party — is restricted from winning many seats.
Brahmins up in arms against Bommai govt’s bid to reallot 6% EWS quota to Vokkaligas, Lingayats
The 10 per cent EWS quota meant for the poor among the socially forward communities has been brought through a 2019 constitutional amendment by the BJP-led central government, which was recently upheld by the Supreme Court.
Advantage BJP for fourth Rajya Sabha seat in Karnataka as Congress-JD(S) bicker
Written by Johnson TA | Bengaluru | June 1, 2022 4:24:43 pm Though the BJP, the Congress, and the Janata Dal (Secular) have filed nominations for the fourth Rajya Sabha seat available from Karnataka, none of the parties has clear numbers to win it, and the state Congress’s decision to not ally with the JD(S) has added a twist in the plot for the June 10 election and is expected to favour the BJP.
Police exam recruitment scam: Invigilators at former BJP leader’s school under CID lens
The alleged role of six teachers who were invigilators at a private school operated by a former BJP functionary — it was among the centres for a written examination to recruit 545 police sub-inspectors for Karnataka Police in October 2021 — has come under close scrutiny of the state Criminal Investigation Department on account of extraordinary performances by a few candidates who took the exam at the centre.
Pyres till 2 am at Bengaluru crematoriums, token for queues
© Provided by The Indian Express Late Monday evening, as a prison ambulance with a body inside rolled up ahead of a line of six waiting ambulances, at the Hosapalya crematorium in south Bengaluru, a group of waiting drivers heckled the prison ambulance driver for jumping the queue. The crematorium had already carried out 14 cremations by its scheduled closing time of 5.30 pm on Monday and there were still six bodies waiting in ambulances lined up at the entrance of the crematorium.
Use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and risk of death from COVID-19: an OpenSAFELY cohort analysis based on two cohorts
Use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and risk of death from COVID-19: an OpenSAFELY cohort analysis based on two cohorts http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8618-7333Angel YS Wong1, Brian MacKenna2, Caroline E Morton2, Anna Schultze1, Alex J Walker2, Krishnan Bhaskaran1, Jeremy P Brown1, Christopher T Rentsch1, Elizabeth Williamson1, Henry Drysdale2, Richard Croker2, Seb Bacon2, William Hulme2, Chris Bates3, Helen J Curtis2, Amir Mehrkar2, David Evans2, Peter Inglesby2, Jonathan Cockburn3,...
Karnataka: BSY delays portfolio allocation as anger grows in party over cabinet choices Original
Written by Johnson TA | Bengaluru | January 16, 2021 2:16:36 am Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa A CABINET expansion carried out by Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on January 13 to take his team strength to 33 – one less than its full capacity of 34 – has exposed deep divisions and a lack of unity in the state BJP unit.
Karnataka: Fewer Covid patients are dying soon after hospitisation, reveals data
Written by Johnson TA | Bengaluru | September 16, 2020 11:46:21 pm Bengaluru: Volunteers from Mercy Angel and their helping hand team perform the last rites of a COVID-19 victim, at Khuddus Saab burial ground in Bengaluru, Saturday, July 11, 2020.
Fewer deaths in districts prompt Karnataka to adopt tele-ICU system in Bengaluru
Written by Johnson TA | Bengaluru | Published: July 25, 2020 2:21:19 am As on July 21, the Covid-19 deaths per million population in Bengaluru was 74.8 as compared to 23.8 for the state. After checking on the condition of Covid-19 patients in an ICU at KIMS Hospital in Dharwad district, pulmonologist Dr Raghavendra, who is sitting in Columbia Asia Hospital in Bengaluru, tells doctors in Dharwad about a new study on Covid-19 treatment published in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases.
Ministers, officials to monitor Covid-19 control in Bengaluru
Written by Johnson TA | Bengaluru | Published: July 11, 2020 5:50:29 am Earlier, Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa appointed a group of seven ministers and his political secretary along with eight IAS officers to oversee efforts to check the spread of the coronavirus in Bengaluru. (PTI) Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Friday said he was going into self-isolation on account of staff at his home office testing positive for Covid-19.
Karnataka HC questions policy to choose migrants for trains
Written by Johnson TA | Bengaluru | Published: May 30, 2020 3:54:09 am In the course of the hearing, the Central government told the court it would continue Shramik Special train services beyond May 31 if the state government requests the Indian Railways.
Karnataka to pay for travel on Shramik trains till May 31
Written by Johnson TA | Bengaluru | Published: May 23, 2020 5:40:21 am On Thursday, the high court, which is hearing a PIL about the plight of migrant workers, summoned the state chief secretary and labour secretary to explain why Karnataka is deviating from the policy laid down for free travel of migrants. (Representational) The Karnataka government on Friday announced that it would fund travel on all Shramik trains until May 31.
Karnataka: Test mandatory for returnees from six states
Written by Johnson TA | Bengaluru | Published: May 22, 2020 6:42:43 am Under the current testing policy, all persons returning from other states to Karnataka are screened for symptoms, and those found to be ill are tested for COVID-19 and sent to hospital quarantine. The Karnataka government has made COVID-19 testing mandatory for all persons returning from six high COVID-19-prevalence states between day five and day seven of their arrival.
Covid-19: Revamped facilities, early screening help Karnataka keep numbers down
Written by Johnson TA | Bengaluru | Published: April 28, 2020 4:41:17 am A ‘Meat On Wheels’ service by local authorities in Hubbali to serve meat and eggs at controlled rates during Ramzan. (PTI) EARLY response, aggressive contact tracing plus quarantining and good medical infrastructure have helped Karnataka, that saw the country’s first death due to coronavirus, keep down its COVID-19 numbers. Once No. 3 in the country, it is now at No. 11 in terms of tally.
India records first coronavirus death: 76-year-old from Karnataka
By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Updated: March 12, 2020 11:00:03 pm The number of coronavirus infected patients in India has risen to 74 (File photo) A 76-year old man from Karnataka who died on Tuesday passed away due to the novel coronavirus, the state government said on Thursday, marking the first fatality from the infection in the country. Tests of samples taken earlier of the man confirmed COVID-19, the government said Thursday.
Lawyers for Kashmiri students held for sedition file bail plea under police cover
Written by Johnson TA | Bengaluru | Published: February 29, 2020 3:35:16 am Police escort the three Kashmiri students facing sedition charges from a court in Hubbali on Monday. (PTI/File) The lawyers for the three Kashmiri students arrested for sedition in Karnataka filed a petition for their bail on Friday under police protection. Earlier, on February 24, they had failed to file the plea due to protests by local lawyers in Dharwad.
Gangster Ravi Pujari extradited from Senegal
Written by Johnson TA | Bengaluru | Published: February 24, 2020 2:47:33 am Ravi Pujari. (File photo) More than a year after he was arrested in the west African country of Senegal on the basis of information provided by Indian agencies, notorious extortionist and gangster Ravi Suliya Pujari, 51, will be brought to Bengaluru to stand trial in a murder case early on Monday following completion of the extradition process from Senegal.
Karnataka: NIA to take over probe into terror recruitment case, TN cop’s murder
Written by Johnson TA | Bengaluru | Published: February 2, 2020 6:18:12 am The NIA will also take over investigation into Wilson’s murder, allegedly by Abdul Shameem and Toufiq, who were arrested on January 14 in Udupi, Karnataka, and a case regarding Moideen’s disappearance from Chennai in December, police sources said.
Bengaluru Police book 17 in terror case
Written by Johnson TA | Bengaluru | Published: January 13, 2020 1:34:55 am On Sunday, Bengaluru police anti-terrorism cell and the state Internal Security Division carried out searches at multiple places in Karnataka as part of its investigation into the UAPA case.
Yediyurappa reaches out to victims of Mangalore police firing
Written by Johnson TA | Mangalore | Published: December 22, 2019 3:45:32 am Karnataka CM BS Yediyurappa with family members of those killed in the firing. (PTI) THE BJP government in Karnataka will consider building houses for the families of two Muslim victims of police firing in the city of Mangalore during protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act on Thursday, Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa said on Saturday following a visit to Mangalore to meet the families and local officials.
Karnataka bypolls: Vokkaliga factor may be play in Yeshwanthapura
Written by Johnson TA | Bengaluru | Published: December 5, 2019 6:28:08 am During one campaign, Kumaraswamy said that Somashekhar never showed him respect while he was CM. The Assembly bypoll in Yeshwanthapura seat of west Bengaluru is expected to be a test of whether the Vokkaliga community — which accounts for a large population in the region, and almost 25 per cent of the voters — will punish the BJP for overthrowing a government headed by Vokkaliga leader H D Kumaraswamy.
IPL regular arrested for match-fixing: Cops connect dots; From KPL to Abu Dhabi T10 League
Television grab from the final moments of 2019 KPL final, the game for which CM Gautam allegedly got Rs 20 lakh to bat slowly. Two Karnataka Premier League franchisees whose names have cropped up prominently in the ongoing match-fixing scandal in the T20 tournament, and who allegedly influenced cricketers CM Gautam and Abrar Kazi to fix matches, also own teams in the T10 League in Abu Dhabi that have some of international cricket’s biggest names on their roasters.
Days after I-T raids Karnataka Congress leader, aide found dead
Ramesh Kumar, 38, who has served as the personal assistant of Parameshwara for over eight years, was found hanging from a tree in the Jnana Bharathi campus. (Representational Image) A personal assistant of Karnataka Congress leader G Parameshwara, who is being currently investigated by the Income Tax department for alleged tax evasion, was found dead on the campus of Bengaluru University on Saturday morning in a suspected case of suicide.
In IMA scam, discrepancy in seized Excel document on ‘bribes’ raises doubt
The document on Khan and Ahmed maintained details of alleged bribes they paid to keep the company’s Ponzi scheme afloat is one of the key documents that the CBI is using to track the trail of alleged illegal payments made.
Reddy group opposes BSY govt proposal to divide Ballari
B S Yediyurappa A proposal by the Karnataka government to divide the iron ore-rich but impoverished Ballari district into two districts has been perceived by the ruling BJP’s once-formidable Reddy brothers’ group of Ballari as a threat to their political fortunes in the region.
Seer’s phone was tapped by passing him off as smuggler
Vokkaliga seer Nirmalananda Swamy. The investigation into the alleged illegal tapping of phones of politicians, their aides, bureaucrats and other officials during the tenure of former Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy has revealed that police officers intercepted some numbers illegally by linking them to unrelated criminal investigations to escape detection during legal scrutiny.
Hard landing may have disabled Vikram lander’s communication system: Former ISRO scientists
On Thursday, former ISRO chairman A S Kiran Kumar said that there were no signals from the Vikram lander for ISRO to track. He also indicated that the communication break with the lander occurred just ahead of touchdown.
War of words begins between Cong, JDS
The remarks by the two veteran leaders are the first direct allegations between the Congress and JDS regarding the failure of the alliance since the coalition government collapsed last month. Senior leaders of the Congress and JDS are engaged in a war of words over the collapse of the coalition government in Karnataka barely 14 months after coming together.
Karnataka faceoff: Governor’s 2nd deadline passes, Speaker fixes Monday for trust vote
Ruling MLAs in the House on Friday. (PTI) As Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Vala issued a second deadline to Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy, directing him to complete the trust vote by the end of the day, Speaker K R Ramesh Kumar Friday extended confidence motion proceedings until Monday after Congress-JD(S) coalition MLAs and Kumaraswamy sought more time to discuss the motion.
Bracing for SC hearing and trust vote, Karnataka parties hide their MLAs
The future of the Congress-JD(S) coalition also depends on a case filed in the Supreme Court by 15 of the 16 rebel MLAs seeking directions to the Speaker to accept their resignations. (File) As he made his way through the ruling members lounge in the Karnataka Assembly Monday, Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy spotted an MLA from his party Raja Venkatappa Nayak. “Where were you yesterday?
Karnataka heats up after SC orders status quo on rebel MLAs, Kumaraswamy seeks trust vote
Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy with his deputy G Parameshwara during the assembly session in Bengaluru, Friday. (PTI) As the Supreme Court directed Karnataka Speaker K R Ramesh Kumar not to take any decision on the disqualification or resignation of 10 rebel Congress-JD(S) coalition MLAs until July 16, more political uncertainty loomed in the state Friday with Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy announcing that he will seek a trust vote in the Assembly.
Karnataka: SC tells Speaker to decide, he says will go by rules
If the resignations are accepted, the 13-month-old Congress-JD(S) government in Karnataka will lose majority, paving the way for the BJP to stake claim to form government. Hours after the Supreme Court Thursday asked Karnataka Speaker K R Ramesh Kumar to take a decision on the resignations of 10 rebel Congress and JD(S) MLAs before the day ended, the Speaker told the court that the process would take time and he won’t be able to complete it the same day.
BJP tests the waters in Karnataka as more MLAs resign, meets Governor
Karnataka minister D K Shivakumar outside a Mumbai hotel where he was detained, sent to Bengaluru.
BJP tests the waters in Karnataka as more MLAs resign, meets Governor
Karnataka minister D K Shivakumar outside a Mumbai hotel where he was detained, sent to Bengaluru.
Karnataka coalition gets time, Speaker says nine quit letters not in order
The Speaker’s office had received 13 resignations on July 6 and rejected nine after perusing them in his office. Karnataka speaker and six-time MLA KR Ramesh Kumar. (File) In a breather for the precarious Congress-JD(S) coalition government, Karnataka Speaker K R Ramesh Kumar Tuesday rejected the resignations of nine of 14 coalition MLAs on the ground that they were not tendered in the correct format.
Make or break moment in Karnataka: Coalition ministers resign to allow reshuffle, stay afloat
JD(S) MLAs leave a Bengaluru hotel for a resort on the city outskirts Monday evening. PTI As two Independent MLAs resigned as ministers and withdrew support from the ruling Congress-JD(S) coalition in Karnataka, all 30 ministers of the two parties resigned “voluntarily” Monday to allow a Cabinet reshuffle in a desperate bid to accommodate disgruntled legislators and pull the alliance back from the brink of collapse.
Bengaluru: 2 Immigration Bureau men accused in trafficking case
At the lodge, police found 35 Nepali women in two rooms, all waiting to be trafficked to countries in the Middle East by a gang of Nepali and Indian men. (Representational) A Bengaluru Police probe into the trafficking of Nepali women to the Middle East has found that two key immigration officers, on deputation to the Bureau of Immigration from the Central Intelligence Bureau, had ensured a human trafficking gang safe passage allegedly for Rs 15,000 per woman.
‘Gun seized by Maharashtra ATS was used to train Gauri Lankesh killers’
A Karnataka police SIT investigating the Gauri Lankesh murder case has found that the journalist was allegedly shot by Parashuram Waghmare, 26, who was recruited and trained by an organised syndicate linked to Sanatan Sanstha.
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