Telangana quarry halts operations to let rare owl hatch eggs

In an environment-friendly gesture, quarrying has been stopped for about a month at a stone quarry in Vikarabad district in Telangana to let a rock eagle owl, a rare bird, hatch its eggs. IMAGE:......

Whatever party decides: Siddaramaiah on leadership row

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Monday reiterated that he will abide by the Congress high command's decision on the leadership change issue in the state. IMAGE: Karnataka Chief Minister......

Did Rahul Promise DKS Chief Ministership In Nov 2025?

'This plan was never official. It was there secretly. It was by the high command.' IMAGE: Rahul Gandhi with Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy......

Karnataka Speaker revokes suspension of 18 BJP MLAs

The suspension of 18 Bharatiya Janata Party MLAs from the Karnataka Legislative assembly for six months has been revoked, Speaker U T Khader said on Sunday. IMAGE: Leader of the Opposition in......

Villagers on how SEZs will affect their lives

Fear of being displaced, fear of being uprooted from their native culture, fear of being exploited by shrewd politicians in connivance with developers of Special Economic Zones is the common strand......

Star eyes regional TV venture with Asianet

Star India is close to forming a joint venture with Kerala-based television broadcaster Asianet to launch a bouquet of regional channels. The deal comes after the failure of Star's joint venture......

Rajeev Chandrasekhar sworn in as Ficci president

Karnataka MP Rajeev Chandrasekhar was sworn in on Saturday as the president of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry at its 80th annual general meeting in New Delhi.Rajeev was......

Pune coop bank in Rs 436-cr scam

Police arrest 15 directors, six others for defaulting loans. The Pune police on Saturday arrested 15 directors of the Shree Suvarna Sahakari Bank for their alleged involvement in a Rs 436.74-crore......

PIX: Amitabh, Tendulkar celebrate actor Sachin Pilgaonkar

Zee Marathi celebrated actor Sachin Pilgaonkar's 50 years in the film industry with a grand function titled Suvarna Sachin (Golden Sachin) on September 5. His book Hach Mazha Marg (This is my......

Now, an underworld film by a woman director

Sumana D Kittur, a young woman journalist, broke all barriers in Kannada cinema by directing a male-oriented subject Slum Bala for her debut. Her next film Kallara Santhe, a political satire, won......

Kannada KBC gets its first Crorepati

Kannadada Kotyadhipathi has got its first winner.Hussain Basha, a college student from a village in Gangavathi taluk, Koppal district, Karnataka, won the Rs 1 crore prize money on the popular show......

First Look: Kannada KBC to go on air from today

The second season of Kannadada Kotyadhipathi, the popular game show and the Kannada version of its Hindi counterpart Kaun Banega Crorepati will be back on air from March 11, Monday at 8 pm on the......

Suvarna named match commissioner

Veteran football official Madhav G Suvarna has been appointed match commissioner cum referee assessor by FIFA to oversee the2008 Olympic men's football qualifyingmatch between Iraq and North Korea......

Para-athlete accuses for cruelty, Railways clarify

International para-athlete turned social worker Suvarna Raj on Sunday alleged that she was allotted an upper berth on a Nagpur-Delhi train even though she is physically handicapped. The 34-year-old......

Para-athletes denied entry at Pro Wrestling final

Two international para-athletes Pradeep Raj and Suvarna Raj were on Tuesday reportedly denied entry at Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium to witness the final match of Pro Wrestling League. "The traffic......

Spotted: Irfan Pathan on a flight to Bangalore

Read Shaun Suvarna sent us this photograph.The lad met India pacer Irfan Pathan on a flight from Mumbai to Bangalore last week.'Irfan was listening to music most of the time. He even asked me where......

Spotted: Sachin Tendulkar

Reader Kamlesh Suvarna sent us this photograph. 'I met Sachin Tendulkar while he was playing in the nets at the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) ground at Bandra Kurla complex in Mumbai,'......