Handicrafts showrooms, factory in Blore sealed Karnataka State Forest Department on Saturday sealed the factory and showrooms of well-known handicraft dealers Natesans, in the City and seized 77 kgs of sandalwood, 12 kgs of sandal dust and a metre-long teakwood from their alleged illegal factory at Kadugodi.
Plea to restrain MLAs from participating in proceedings With a day left for special session of the State Assembly convened to enable Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa to prove his strength, an interim plea for restraining 39 Janata Dal (Secular) legislators, including Mr H D Kumaraswamy, from participating in the proceedings of the House on November 19, has been made to the Speaker.
CENTRAL RAILWAY BOARD TO GIVE GREEN SIGNAL
Mlore - Blore train by December first week The much-awaited Mangalore-Bangalore train service will commence in the first week of December, said South Western Railway Zone General Manager Praveen Kumar.
Heritage site, now a public toilet! You must visit Sultana Jahan Begum's Tomb situated at Ainapur, about 5 km from here, to see how disgracefully people could treat heritage sites. People living around the monument are using the 350-year-old majestic building for open defecation.
Crore lamps to be lit today Bangalore Palace ground is set to be illuminated with Koti Neerajana, lighting of one crore lamps (diyas) at a time and with a message of saving indigenous cow breeds on Sunday.
Finding a place... A Green Barbet pecking the tree trunk to make a nest in Bangalore on Saturday. Green Barbets are spotted in Indian sub-continent, Sri Lanka and Nepal. DH photo/Anantha Subramanyam K
A new government has been installed in Karnataka. What should be the priorities of the Yeddyurappa-led government? Transparency, focus on power sector and infrastructure, curbing graft and warding off terror threats to Bangalore... the list of priorities set by Deccan Herald readers for the government is endless. Some of them have also insisted that the Bharatiya Janata Party should prove that it indeed is a party with difference.
