Dharmasthala: I had said before elections that farmer loans will be waived off if JD (S) gets an absolute majority. I will decide my limits on waiving off farmer loans after the confidence of motion. Good schemes will be implemented to ensure the farmers’ benefits, CM-designate HD Kumaraswamy said.

Mangaluru: Two undertrails got into a fight with each other on Monday late night at sub-jail located at Kodiyalbail.

Mangaluru:  ’Selective Tampering’ has been done at 30 to 40 constituencies in the recently concluded Karnataka Assembly polls, AICC general secretary BK Hariprasad told Vartha Bharati.

Belthangady: Karnataka CM-designate HD Kumaraswamy arrived at Dharmasthala this morning.

The Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserve Limited (ISPRL), one of the emergency fuel store houses in the country, got two million barrel crude oil from Abu Dhabi national Petrol Company on Monday. With this, the ISRPL, near MRPL of Mangaluru, commissioned its service on Monday. This fuel could be used for ten days during emergency.

Around 100 persons were booked under various columns in Vittla police station on charges of involving in a clash during the celebration of Congress-JDS victory over BJP in Bantwala and surrounding places.

A boy who was sleeping on wooden logs at a saw mill near Varkadi Bakery Junction here in an ill-health condition is reportedly died on Monday. The deceased boy is identified as Shravanth Acharya (9), son of Gangadhar Acharya, residing in a rented house near Varkadi Bakery Junction. Later, the postmortem of the body was conducted at Periyaram Medical College.

self-proclaimed cow vigilantes attacked two Lorries that were transporting cattle from Gujarat to Kerala and allegedly assaulted the four persons including the driver and the cleaner. The incident took place on Sunday night, May 20 near Murdeshwar on NH66.