According to company executives, the situation might worsen in the coming days.
'While it is very easy to blame the chief minister, the bureaucracy should be held accountable. Chief ministers come every five years but bureaucracy is a permanent setup. The bureaucracy is trained for handling such situations with alacrity.'
"The people of Karnataka have made up their minds to throw out the Siddaramaiah government. They are disappointed with it on many fronts, with corruption being the main issue. The relationship between corruption and Congress party is akin to water and fish," Shah said.
Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa who announced this following a Cabinet meeting said that IB sleuths had been directed to keep a tab on the activities of both Samuel and Sangliana, who incidentally was the former police commissioner of Bengaluru.
Providing succour to distressed farmers, the Karnataka government on Saturday announced waiver of interest and penal interest on crop loans from cooperative banks for the current fiscal and hike in compensation from Rs 2 lakh to Rs 5 lakh to families of farmers who had committed suicide.
Vibrant diretcor of Kannada films, Kavitha Lankesh talks about her recent film Avva, which is based on another of her father's novel, Mussanjeya Katha Prasanga.
Even as an enthused AIADMK cadre celebrate their Amma's return, if the Supreme Court stays the Karnataka high court judgment in the disproportionate assets case, Jayalalithaa may once again lose her chief ministership. R Ramasubramanian reports from Chennai.
Vinay Kumar, who led Karnataka to its seventh Ranji Trophy title, said his team's goal is to dominate Indian cricket for the next ten years.
Different industry and trade bodies have extended their support to BangaloreIT.in, the premier annual IT event organised by the Karnataka government and STPI. The three-day event will be inaugurated on the 29th of October in the premises of Bangalore International Exhibition Centre (BIEC).
The Centre on Monday gave its nod for a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the mysterious death of IAS officer D K Ravi after Karnataka government fell in line and sent a fresh notification without any time limit.
The Karnataka government on Thursday ordered a probe by the elite Corps of Detectives into the series of attacks on Christian prayer halls in the state, saying it wanted an "impartial inquiry" into the communal violence. "The government wants to ensure an impartial inquiry into the incidents of communal violence in the state and book the culprits," Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa told reporters after a Cabinet meeting.
Speaking about the third phase of polls, the attention automatically gets diverted to the Dr D M Nanjundappa Committee Report. The committee was set up by the Karnataka government in order to study and redress the problems of regional imbalance in Karnataka. While the report managed to bring about a smile on the faces of several persons when it was initially submitted, the fact remains that almost eight years after it was submitted, it is yet to see to the light of the day.
During the searches at about 66 places, I-T officials said they've seized cash and jewellery worth over Rs 15cr.
Following the assault of a Tanzanian female student in Bengaluru, a team of external affairs ministry and high commissioner of Tanzania will visit the city on Friday to take stock of the situation.
The Centre is playing politics and is more worried about its poll prospects in Karnataka than following the apex court order, says lawyers representing Tamil Nadu.
Rahul Gandhi has asked the Karnataka Government to explain the incident and send the report immediately.
A rail link is proposed to carry passengers from Bangalore's centre to the new international airport. The Karnataka govt. has formed a SPV for this project.
Investigations are on to find out if there are any links between the UK terror plot and the attack at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore in 2005, he said.
A bandh to protest against the release of Cauvery waters to Tamil Nadu has brought Karnataka to a standstill on Friday
Not only was it a major embarrassment for the Karnataka government, but the message was clear -- The IT capital had come on the terror radar.
A pilot project on paperless functioning which had been initiated in the IT-BT department of the state government was expected to be completed by next week, he said.
Intending to showcase the rich heritage, the train will start its journey from Bangalore and pass through Mysore, Hassan, Hospet, Gadag, Londa and finally culminate in Goa. It will be equipped with five star facilities including spa, restaurant, bar.
Haneef, who was working in Gold Coast Hospital in Australia, returned to India in July last year after being cleared of terror charges in the botched Glasgow airport suicide attack in the UK. The Australian government withdrew all the charges and restored his visa a few days ago.
Amazon, however, claimed that it is just a service provider and doesn't own goods at any point of sale due to which it is not liable to pay this tax.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to give an urgent hearing to a plea of the Tamil Nadu government for setting up the Cauvery management board for implementation of the Cauvery water disputes tribunal award, saying there is "no urgency" for it.
The Union Cabinet on Tuesday gave its approval for private participation in the construction of international airport in Bangalore.
The BJP formally withdrew support from the Karnataka government on Sunday, thus reducing the Janata Dal-Secular government, led by Kumaraswamy, to a minority. The BJP met Karnataka Governor Rameshwar Thakur at Raj Bhavan on Sunday to inform him about its decision to withdraw support. The BJP leaders also urged the governor to impose President's rule. Kumaraswamy said that he is ready to face the trust vote on October 18 and added that he is confident of winning.
The move came following the hour-long meeting of the party in Bangalore, necessitated by the Janata Dal-Secular's refusal to hand over power as promised on October 3.
Prohibitory orders were imposed in Delhi and parts of Karnataka. Police kept tight vigil in Kerala. In Gujarat, 50 people were arrested for Thursday's violence.
"Deeply anguished at the loss of precious lives in the incidents of violence in Jammu and Kashmir. I also pray for the speedy recovery of those injured," he said.
A CBI court in Bangalore has sentenced Abdul Karim Telgi and two associates to five years' rigorous imprisonment for floating three fictitious firms trading in stamp paper and duping the Karnataka government, a PSU and four private firms of several lakh rupees.
Even as Karnataka plans to invest Rs 3,716 crore over the next 3 years to provide dedicated railway connectivity to the new international airport near Devanahalli from the city, experts feel that the Indian Railways' network in and around the city can be utilised to ferry passengers at a fraction of the cost. This network offers an intermediate solution that can ease some of the load from the highway.
As per the affidavit she filed on Friday along with the nominations for the bypoll, Jayalalithaa has total assets of Rs 117.13 crore, which include Rs 45.04 crore of movable assets and Rs 72.09 crore of immovable assets.
The Rs 3,250 crore (Rs 32.5 billion) Bangalore - Mysore Infrastructure Corridor has hit another hurdle.
Its wireless connectivity is based on pay per usage of bandwidth, using SRIT's product DynaRate, which enables users to demand bandwidth on a real-time and dynamic basis.
Stung by the fresh conditions imposed by H D Deve Gowda, the Bharatiya Janata Party has sent its senior leaders to Bangalore to hold negotiations over the Karnataka government crisis.
Karnataka was on Tuesday directed to release 2,000 cusecs Cauvery water per day to Tamil Nadu from October 7 to 18 by the Supreme Court.
The company, after witnessing a prolonged dispute with striking workers over several issues, has received the Karnataka government's approval to close the factory.
The project will entail an investment of over Rs 60,000 crore (Rs 600 billion) and will be developed in a 50:50 joint venture with the Dubai-headquartered Limitless Holdings, a sister company of Nakheel and a part of the diversified Dubai World group
the Karnataka govt announced a reward of Rs two lakh to each of the four hockey players and a coach from the state, who were part of the Asia Cup winning Indian team, hours after national coach Joaquim Carvalho threatended to go on a hunger strike.
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