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Bengaluru, May 10: Rejecting reports of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, B. Sriramulu's alleged sting video, president Amit Shah on Thursday said that many fake sting videos surfaced on the internet and urged to not believe them blindly. Addressing a press conference here, Shah said, "Many fake sting videos surface. Don't believe them blindly. Instead, rather verify it. There is no need to

New Delhi, May 10: Fever pitch campaigning in Karnataka for assembly elections to be held on Saturday (May 12) came to an end on Thursday evening. The campaigning by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Congress and the Janata Dal (Secular) was electric in content and delivery, ranging from mud-slinging of rival opponents to religion. The run-up to the elections saw top ministers and leaders from

Jammu and Kashmir, May 10: Days after a resident of Chennai died in a stone pelting incident in Jammu and Kashmir, a similar incident has surfaced where the vehicle in which the District Judge of a Bengaluru Family Court was travelling in was pelted with stones. B. S. Bharathi, along with her family, was on vacation in the state when on May 7, their car was pelted with stones near Narbal

Bengaluru, May 10: Asaduddin Owaisi, the president of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM), has courted a controversy by wearing a saffron turban when he addressed a Janata Dal (Secular) rally in poll-bound Karnataka. Owaisi, who is facing allegations of helping BJP candidates in several states by fielding his party’s candidates to divide Muslim votes, had decided to field around 50 MIM

Newsroom, May 10: The police in Assam have taken six workers of Bharatiya Janata Party into custody in connection with the discovery of a pro-ISIS banner in the Nalbari district of the northeast Indian state. ISIS, a dreaded terror outfit which has its network across the world, normally carries out attacks in Muslim dominant countries to destabilise the region in the name of Islam. Islamic

Bengaluru, May 10: Why does Prime Minister Narendra Modi often resorts to personal attack against Congress supremo Rahul Gandhi and his mother Sonia Gandhi? When media persons in Bengaluru posed this question to Rahul Gandhi, he gave a simple and straight forward answer: “Modi has anger inside him and he personally attacks me and my mother, because he sees a threat from me." On the last day of

Bengaluru, May 10: Reaching out to Dalits and other backward communities in poll-bound Karnataka, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said his government was trying to fulfil Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s dream of a powerful and prosperous nation. Hitting out at the ruling Congress in Karnataka, he said the party failed to confer Bharat Ratna on Ambedkar when it was in power. Addressing the SC, ST, BC

Bengaluru, Nov 10: The Supreme Court of India today refused to intervene in a plea by Rashtriya Hindu Sena chief Pramod Muthalik, who alleged that the Congress party in its election manifesto in Karnataka is seeking votes in the name of religion. The allegation is rubbished as baseless by the Congress party. A Bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A.M. Khanwilkar and D.Y

Bagalkot, May 10: Three policemen including a deputy superintendent of police (DySP) were killed on the spot, in a ghastly road mishap occurred last night. The victims have been identified as CID DySP Bale Gowda (55), CID PSI K H Shivaswamy (55) and jeep driver Venugopal (25)--all three policemen. They were killed when a truck collided with their police jeep head-on at Kudala Sangama Cross in

Bengaluru, May 10: A day after the raid and seizure of 9,746 original voter ID cards from a flat in Jalahalli under Rajarajeshwari Nagar Assembly constituency, the police on Wednesday collected a few cards to trace its holders. The police suspect these cards were taken from the holders as collateral security in exchange of goodies/cash distributed by political parties. However, inquiries and