Participants at the 79th Akhil Bharat Kannada Sahitya Sammelan will get an opportunity to partake the staple food of the people of north Karnataka. The food committee of the event has planned to serve, among other items, jowar roti, groundnut chutney, curd and mango pickle, to literature lovers. “For the people of north Karnataka, even the mentio

A day after the Supreme Court set the February 20 deadline to notify the final award of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal, the Karnataka Government has urged the Centre not to issue the notification till the disposal of two civil petitions pending in the Supreme Court and a review petition in the tribunal. Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar told

Reiterating that the government was strong and stable, Andhra Pradesh Finance Minister Anam Ramanarayana Reddy said that the government was not falling in minority after the alleged reports of the suspension of 9 MLAs by the Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC). He dismissed these reports as baseless, saying that the PCC president Botcha Sat

Civil Supplies Minister D. Sridhar Babu has ruled out the possibility of the Government issuing Aadhaar cards to all eligible persons in Andhra Pradesh before six months and for at least two months in Ranga Reddy and Hyderabad (Urban) districts. He, however, asserted that the subsidy on LPG refills will somehow be given till then. He said the Ce

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), a Central Government initiative to provide Aadhaar to citizens for welfare schemes, can also share information with the security agencies if needed for investigations, Deputy Director-General of UIDAI Ashok Dalwai said. Delivering his keynote address at the valedictory of the two-day all-Indi

The Supreme Court’s direction to the Union Government on Monday to notify the final award of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal before February 20 has led to anxiety in Mandya district. The Mandya Zilla Raitha Hitharakshana Samiti has strongly objected the Supreme Court’s direction. The samiti, which held an emergency meeting in Mandya o

The Telangana Joint Action Committee (TJAC) has decided to mount pressure on the ruling party MLAs of the region by taking up a series of protest programmes in their constituencies from February 16 to 21. Giving the details to reporters in Hyderabad, TJAC leaders C. Vittal, V. Srinivas Goud and A. Dayakar said posters would be displayed and pamp

Nirmal police on Tuesday filed a petition in the court of the Judicial First Class Magistrate (JFCM) K. Ajesh Kumar for calling the tapes of debates in A.P. Legislative Assembly in which Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi had participated. The legislator’s debates in Urdu language, as well as samples of his voice collecte