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New Delhi, May 2: The ED today filed its first direct charge sheet against doctor-cum-interfaith scholar Zakir Naik on charges of laundering criminal money to the tune of Rs 193 crore and allegedly creating illegal real estate assets worth crores in India and abroad, officials said. The agency filed the prosecution complaint under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) before a special

Bengaluru, May 2: The special court for Elected Representatives Judge granted bail to the BJP sympathiser Hemath Kumar, who was arrested and remanded to judicial custody in connection with the alleged creation of fake letter in the name of the Home Minister M B Patil. The Court, which took up his bail application here on Thursday, granted conditional bail asking him to produce surety of Rs 50,000

Bengaluru, May 2: While the election fortunes of over 429 candidates, who contested for the just concluded Lok Sabha elections, sealed in the ballot box the Karnataka State Election Commission had announced elections to 63 Urban Local bodies and byelections to 8 Taluk Panchayaths and 202 Panchayaths seats on May 29. Addressing a press conference here on Thursday, the State Election Commissioner P

Belagavi, May 2: Former minister and dissident Congress MLA, Ramesh Jarakiholi, has predicted a change of government in Karnataka after the Lok Sabha elections results are out. Speaking to newsmen in his hometown Gokak here on Thursday, the rebel Congress MLA, said that “There will be a polarisation of politics in Karnataka in the aftermath of the Lok Sabha elections, and ‘’those who are enjoying

Bengaluru, May 2: Karnataka minister GT Deve Gowda on Wednesday said that his party JD(S) workers in Mysuru and elsewhere might have voted for the BJP, underlining the unease between ruling coalition partners. The Congress and the JD(S) had fought the Lok Sabha elections together, but the seat sharing understanding was marred by differences between members of the two parties which had been bitter

Bengaluru, May 2: Veteran Kannada actor and theatre artist Master Hirannaiah on Thursday (May 2) breathed his last at a private hospital in Bengaluru after suffering from age-related illness. He was 85. He is survived by his wife and five children. Hirannaiah (Narasimha Murthy) was born on February 15, 1934, in Mysuru and his father K Hirannaiah was considered to be a pioneer in theatre

Chitradurga, May 2: In a gruesome road accident, Five women belonging to the same family, were killed near Metakurkin village in Hiriyur taluk in the district on Thursday morning. According to police sources the mishap occurred when the ill-fated vehicle in which they were travelling, jumped off the lane and fell on the other side of the Bengaluru-Pune National Highway, colliding with a truck. The

Kolar, May 2: A 24-year-old inebriated youth who tried to get close to an elephant to kiss it on Wednesday has landed in hospital. The incident occurred near Malur, 50km from Bengaluru, when officials from the forest and police departments were trying to drive a herd of six elephants back into the forests on Karnataka-Tamil Nadu border. Forest officials have been working hard for the last one week

Bengaluru, May 2: JD(S) leader GT Devegowda said that there was a lot of confusion over seat distribution between Congress and JD(S) in Karnataka for the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. "There was no clarity in distributing seats to JD(S). The people at the top took so much time to come up with a solution. They couldn't convince grass-root workers and resolve the dissidence. If our leaders could have

Kasaragod, May 1: Kasaragod District Returning Officer and District Collector D Sajith Babu had summoned two persons who have found to have casted bogus votes in the April 23 Lok Sabha Election. According to official sources, the two culprits who have been asked to present before the DC are Ashiq and Muhammad Fayiz, said to be IUML supporters. The Collector had recorded the statements of the