Sat, 25 Jun 2016 12:03:07
In the four districts under Hubli Electric Supply Company limited's (Hescom) purview, there are 670 wooden and 5,988 iron electric poles. The putrefied wooden poles and the iron poles, most of them covered by a thick film of rust, appear to be crying for attention.These poles, laid many years ago, are in a deplorable condition. With the onset of the monsoons, people in Dharwad, Gadag, Haveri and
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Sat, 25 Jun 2016 12:01:04
Three senior students of a nursing college in Kalaburgi were on Friday arrested in connection with the alleged ragging of a first year Dalit girl student from Kerala who is now being treated at a hospital in her home state for severe damage to her internal organs.
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Sat, 25 Jun 2016 11:59:19
Karnataka has seen area under pulses jump by 42 per cent to 5.15 lakh hectares so far in the 2016-17 kharif season on the back of good rains in the state after two years of successive droughts. Not just pulses, area sown to paddy, coarse cereals, oil seeds and sugarcane so far came in much higher as against the same period of the 2015-16 kharif season. Sowing of kharif (summer) crops begins with
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Sat, 25 Jun 2016 11:56:22
As sulking MLAs and dropped ministers stepped up their criticism of the major ministry revamp and openly discussed about leadership change, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday went into a damage control mode to quell the growing resentment.
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Sat, 25 Jun 2016 11:54:41
On his own admission, there is a lot of "influence of John Wright" in his style of working and India's new chief coach Anil Kumble will like to "convince rather than impose his ideas" on a young team.
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Sat, 25 Jun 2016 11:52:37
Season 2 champions U Mumba and Maharashtra state rivals Puneri Paltan today expressed confidence over their prospects in season 4 of the Pro Kabaddi League commencing here tomorrow.
Pune are to kick-start the new season by clashing with Telugu Titans of Hyderabad followed by the second match between Mumbai against Jaipur Pink Panthers on day one.
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Sat, 25 Jun 2016 11:50:56
A 36-year-old man was arrested for allegedly faking the abduction of his two minor sons in a bid to extort money from his father to repay loans, City police said.
Kiran Kumar was arrested along with two of his accomplices for staging a kidnap drama of his sons, aged 11 and 8, they said.
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Sat, 25 Jun 2016 11:41:27
Rain continued to lash several parts of the state on Friday.
It rained heavily for more than an hour towards evening in Hosapete. Movement of vehicles was affected for a while as the roads were waterlogged.
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