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Bengaluru, Jul 9: The Congress-JD(S) coalition government in Karnataka Wednesday suffered another blow following the resignation of Shivajinagar Congress MLA R Roshan Baig. "Today I have submitted my resignation from the Karnataka Assembly to the Speaker," Baig told reporters at Vidhana Soudha after coming out of the office of Speaker K R Ramesh Kumar. The suspended Congress MLA made it clear he

Bengaluru, Jul 9: As resort politics and private jets grabbed the headlines amid the political crisis in Karnataka, coalition parties and the BJP on Monday traded charges over who “sponsored” the flight of the rebel MLAs to Mumbai on Saturday and the aircraft that brought chief minister HD Kumaraswamy to Bengaluru from Delhi a day later. After a Saturday evening special flight ferried the rebel

Mangaluru, Jul 9: The Mangaluru city police today opened fire when three notorious rowdies having links with several saffron outfits allegedly attacked them in an attempt to evade arrest near Adyar on the outskirts of the city. One of the rowdy-sheeters who tried to attack cop has been identified as Bhavith Raj. He was among the three miscreants who had tried to kill a Muslim mango trader in the

Mangaluru, Jul 9: The new team of Office Bearers of Winners Club Toastmasters for the year 2019-2020 led by President Beena Shetty was installed at a glittering function held on Sunday 07 June 2019 at The Gateway Hotel, Mangaluru. Dr GG Laxman Prabhu, Professor and HOD, Urology, KMC Mangalore was the chief guest of the occasion. “Communication needs to be nuanced so as to foster human relations

Bengaluru, Jul 9: The Special Investigating Team (SIT) probing the IMA multi-crore Ponzi scam yesterday arrested senior IAS officer B M Vijayashankar, the Deputy Commissioner of Bengaluru District (Urban). Vijayshankar has been arrested on charges of allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 1.5 crore from IMA to forward a favourable report about the company to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). The RBI had

Bengaluru: As a skilful trouble-shooter, senior Karnataka Congressman DK Shivakumar may have resolved many a crisis in the party. But on Monday he could not prevent his own man, independent MLA H Nagesh, from deserting the coalition and flying to Mumbai. The sequence of events appeared straight out of a Bollywood film where the hero tries to stop the bad man from fleeing. But it wasn’t a joyful

Panaji, Jul 9: Fourteen MLAs of the ruling JD(S)-Congress coalition in Karnataka, who left Mumbai on Monday evening for Goa, were taken to Pune and are expected to reach the coastal state on Tuesday in a special flight, sources said. The MLAs -- 10 of the Congress, two of the JD(S) and two Independents -- were to travel to Goa by road, accompanied by Mumbai BJP Yuva Morcha president Mohit Bhartiya

Bengaluru, Jul 9: The 13-monthold JD(S)-Congress government was reduced to a oneman administration of chief minister HD Kumaraswamy on Monday as all cabinet ministers tendered their resignation in a bid to save the regime. The fraught move, however, seemed to be in vain as the rebel MLAs stuck to their stand and turned down the offer of ministerial berths. In a day of fast-paced developments, the

Bengaluru, Jul 8: In his first comments after 13 MLAs resigned and plunged the JD(S)-Congress coalition government into a crisis, Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy on Monday asserted he has "no fear" about the "political developments" and was concentrating on fulfilling his responsibilities. Kumaraswamy, who returned here from his 10-day long US trip Sunday night, was talking to reporters

Newsroom, Jul 8: The final ‘training camp’ for the terrorists who assassinated rationalist thinker Prof M M Kalburgi around four years ago was organised in Dakshina Kannada district, according to the Special Investigation Team of the Karnataka police. According to SIT sources, key suspect Praveen Prakash Chatur, who was arrested on May 31, took the police to a rubber plantation at Dharamsthala in