Bengaluru: Union Minister D V SadanadaGowda Gowda on Thursday said the current economic situation in the country was "challenging", but expressed the hope that the measures taken by the union government to address it would see India quickly progress ahead 'in a very short time.'

Bantwal: A 25-year old youngster on Thursday evening committed suicide by hanging himself with a rope in Azzibettu in Bimooda Village here. The deceased Prashant (25) is the son of Bantwal Municipal Councillor Vidyavathi’s son.

Bengaluru: Noted freedom fighter and social activist H S Doreswamy on Thursday added that the Narendra Modi led central government was anti-Vokkaliga community. He further added that the Modi government was strategically splitting the Vokkaliga community to conquer the state.

New Delhi: All Virat Kohli wanted was to remember a good partnership with Mahendra Singh Dhoni but the seemingly innocuous social media post ended up triggering a fresh avalanche of speculation on the former skipper's future on Thursday.

Islamabad: Pakistan on Thursday ruled out giving India a second consular access to Kulbhushan Jadhav who has been sentenced to death by a military court on charges of "espionage and terrorism".

Gorakhpur (UP): A 30-year-old woman died of a snake bite after she sat on a pair of snakes, which were on her bed, while speaking on phone, police said on Thursday.

New Delhi: Days after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman attributed the slowdown in the auto sector to millennials using Ola and Uber, Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal has said that we should not be concerned with GDP maths, since “maths never helped Einstein discover gravity”.

Mangaluru: Historians have unearthed an unpublished Jain inscription belonging to the medieval period from a Jain Basadi in Kalasa of Chikkamagaluru district.