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Disqualified MLAs from Karnataka appear well prepared to put their “Plan B” into operation if the Supreme Court does not stop the by-elections to the 15 assembly constituencies as decided by the Election Commission (EC). The 15 disqualified legislators were hoping that the Supreme Court will take an early decision…
The quantum of rainfall in Karnataka has reduced and the flood waters have receded considerably in both North Karnataka and Southern Karnataka. But, officials appear to be keeping their fingers crossed for the next 36 hours. One of the primary reasons for this is that the inflows into the reservoirs…
Karnataka chief minister HD Kumaraswamy has finally taken the plunge to expand his ministry by inducting two Independents with the hope that the dissidents in the ruling combine will behave themselves for fear of a mid-term election. The two Independents have, in the past, flip-flopped from the JDS-Congress to the…
The attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday will have an upward pressure on oil prices, and Middle East expert and geopolitical disruptive thinker energy, investments and security, has said. “The first coming days, however, this could be only a slight increase, but if there…
Kerala can be hit by Nipah again in 2020 as long as public health measures are being taken to prevent further epidemic and consequent morbidity and mortality, experts say. “The Nipah virus infection can return so long as virus harbouring bats are there in the country/region,” Dr B Ekbal, a…
An oil tanker carrying 75,000 tonnes of naphtha was “torpedoed” and another tanker carrying methanol was “hit” by naval mines early on Thursday near Strait of Hormuz in Gulf of Oman, according to various media reports. The Marshall Islands-flagged tanker, Front Altair, was heading to Taiwan from UAE when it…
The issue of allowing women to enter the Sabarimala temple cannot be seen as a determinant factor in the Left’s debacle in Kerala, said Dalit thinker Sunny M Kapikkad who has been at the forefront of the gender equality movement. He belongs to a group which, following the Supreme Court…
On Sunday, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) reported that four commercial vessels were targeted by “sabotage operations” near the territorial waters of the UAE without causing casualties at around 6 am. According to the UAE ministry, the incident occurred near the UAE’s Fujairah emirate, one of the world’s largest bunkering…
In a bizarre twist, the grandmother, father and two other relatives have been taken into custody by police in connection with the suicide of 19-year-old Vyshnavi and her mother, 40-year-old Latha C in rural Thiruvananthapuram on Wednesday. According to police, a suicide note was scribbled with charcoal on the walls…
The latest judgement of the Supreme Court has ruled that merit cannot be measured only in terms of marks secured in an examination. But it has added a new dimension by saying that merit and diversity have to be counted together in reservations for the Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled…