Woman kidnapped, drugged, raped by Instagram friend in K'taka

A 24-year-old woman was allegedly kidnapped, drugged and raped after being taken to a secluded place in Karkala in Karnataka's Udupi district, police said on Saturday. IMAGE:......

Finding winnable LS candidates: Challenge before BJP, Cong in K'taka

The Bharatiya Janata Party and the ruling Congress -- the key contenders in the Lok Sabha elections in Karnataka -- are grappling with the challenges of finding winning candidates in several......

Minister calls Udupi washroom video small incident blown out of proportion

A first information report has been registered against three girl students over allegedly recording a video of their fellow female student in a college washroom in Udupi, days after the incident,......

What Happens To The BJP After Modi?

How many more years, how many more states, how many more campaigns, how many more candidates can he ask votes for, before he or the voters or both tire?, asks Krishna Prasad. IMAGE: Prime Minister......

India Inc asset sales peak in 2016, Essar tops list

The sale of Essar Oil was India’s biggest deleveraging exercise undertaken by any debt-heavy group The sale of Essar Oil and related infrastructure to Rosneft and other partners has created......

New fuel shortage threat looms on power firms

Tata, Adani, Lanco to be hit as Indonesia may ban export of low-grade coalEven as Indian power producers were thinking the government had resolved their problems by putting in place a pass-through......

How Piramal Group plans to spread its wings

Piramal will join the JSW, Vedanta and Tata groups, which are bidding aggressively for distressed assets, especially in the infrastructure and steel sectors. The cash-rich Piramal Group is in the......

Debt hurdle for Adani's buying spree

  Power company leads with loans of Rs 49,129 crore (Rs 491.29 billion); ports owe Rs 19,000 crore (Rs 190 billion); Australian mining project could suffer, say analysts The Adani group has......

Cricket is strangling other sports

Rajeev Srinivasan wonders about India's quest for Olympic glory. The most vivid moment for me at the Asian Games was on the first day of the track-and-field events, when unheralded Preeja......