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Bengaluru, Apr 23: K T Naveen Kumar aka Hotte Manja, a weapons supplier and Hindutva leader, who is one of the suspects in the murder case of journalist Gauri Lankesh has threatened the Special Investigation Team (SIT) that he would commit suicide if he was subjected to narcoanalysis tests. 38-year-old Kumar had earlier told a sessions court in Bengaluru that he was willing to undergo the tests. A

Mangaluru, Apr 23: Hardline Hindutva leader Sathyajith Surathkal has publicly slammed Dakshina Kannada MP Nalin Kumar Kateel and RSS Prantha Pramukh P S Prakash for allegedly preventing the party high command from issuing him the ticket. Sathyajith, who is also BJP Backward Classes Morcha State Secretary, was the party ticket aspirant from Mangaluru City North constituency apart from former

Sirsi, Apr 23: Union Minister of State Anant kumar Hegde has claimed that he has been receiving death threats from strange callers. A complaint has been filed by the minister's personal assistant Suresh Shetty as per the minister's direction at the New Market police station here on Sunday. According to the complainant the internet call was made to the minister's mobile phone at around 2 am on

Bengaluru, Apr 22: Karnataka BJP chief B S Yeddyurappa today said he was ready to contest against Chief Minister Siddaramaiah from Badami if the party's national president Amit Shah asked him to do so. "Our party's national president will decide whether I should contest or someone else. If I'm asked to contest, I'm ready. If he asks someone else to contest, they will contest," Yeddyurappa told

Bengaluru, Apr 22: Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge said today there was nothing wrong in Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah contesting from two constituencies in the May 12 assembly polls, and expressed confidence he will win both the seats. To build Siddaramaiah's case, Kharge recalled even Prime Minister Narendra Modi contested the 2014 Lok Sabha polls from two seats - Varanasi in Uttar

New Delhi, Apr 22: Senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily has dismissed talk of infighting within the party over the selection of candidates in Karnataka saying the state leadership is "totally united" in the battle against the BJP in the upcoming Assembly polls. Moily, a former Union minister and an MP from the state, also hailed Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and said he had brought political

New Delhi, Apr 22: The Congress on Sunday announced a list of 11 candidates for the upcoming Karnataka Assembly elections 2018. The list was released by AICC general secretary Mukul Wasnik. The Central Election Committee of @INCIndia has selected the following members as Congress candidates for ensuing Karnataka Assembly Elections. #INC4Karnataka pic.twitter.com/Cb6OtgWLXL — Karnataka Congress (

Bengaluru, Apr 22: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be visiting Udupi in poll-bound Karnataka on May 1, the announcement was made by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in a quirky manner. The twitter handle of Karnataka BJP, which has been extremely active in the run-up to the elections, posted a photo from the popular American fantasy drama television series Game of Thrones to announce Modi's

Shikaripura, Apr 22: Kaginele Kanaka Gurupeeta seer Niranjananandapuri Swami on Saturday warned that the Kuruba community would give a fitting reply in the Assembly elections if the BJP’s chief ministerial candidate B S Yeddyurappa does not drop the conspiracy to defeat Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and his son Dr Yatindra in the polls. Speaking to reporters here during his visit to the town, the

Bengaluru, Apr 22: All India Congress Committee spokesperson Kushboo Sundar has come down heavily on the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not being able to punish those involved in heinous crimes in BJP-ruled States. Addressing presspersons here, she said the nation had witnessed the gruesome rape and murder of an eight-year-old in Jammu and Kashmir temple, an 11-year-old in Surat, and an