Bijapur: Reiterating that the BJP Government will certainly bring the Prevention of Cow Slaughter Act, Minister for Animal Husbandry, Hajj and Wakf, Prabhu Chavan has said that he plans to submit the details related to the Act in the coming assembly session.

Bijapur: After the Chief Minister, BS Yediyurappa announced to constitute the Veerashaiva/Lingayat Development Board, several leaders of the community across the party lines have started welcoming the decision.

New York: Global drugmakers Pfizer and BioNTech said on Wednesday their COVID-19 vaccine candidate is 95 percent effective, including in people over 65 years of age, a major announcement coming just two days after Moderna said its virus vaccine has an efficacy rate of 94.5 percent.

New Delhi: Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Wednesday said his government will not allow the "forced bandh" called by some pro-Kannada outfits on December 5 against its decision to set up the Maratha Development Board.

Mumbai: The rupee continued its winning run for the third session in a row on Wednesday, spurting 27 paise to settle at 74.19 against the US dollar amid unabated foreign fund inflows and a weak greenback overseas.

Patna| In Bihar, the portfolios of ministers of the cabinet have been divided in the first meeting of the cabinet headed by Nitish Kumar. The Chief Minister has kept with him the Home ministry, General Administration, Cabinet Secretariat, Monitoring and Election Department, all the departments which have not been allotted to anyone. Deputy Chief Minister Tarkishore Prasad has been given the responsibility of Finance, Commercial Tax, Environment, Forest and Climate Change and Disaster Management, Information Technology, and City Development. In the previous government, the finance department was with Sushil Kumar Modi, who has not got a place in the Nitish government this time.

Suratkal: A flower seller on Wednesday murdered a woman and later committed suicide on Wednesday afternoon here in Suratkal.

Mangaluru: In an incident of identity theft and fraud, unknown perpetrators usurped money from close associates of Dr. Santosh Kumar, the Deputy Commissioner of Mangalore Municipal Corporation, by contacting them through a fake Facebook account impersonating the Deputy Commissioner. A case has been registered under the Cyber-crime unit in this regard.