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Bengaluru, Apr 13: Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah and Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee chief D G Parameshwara have reportedly been asked by the party high command not to contest more than one seat in the May 12 Assembly elections. With growing clamour among many leaders to contest from two segments, the party has decided to reject all proposals and will give an opportunity to other

Bengaluru, Apr 13: Google can never replace the Guru, said the Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu at the 20th annual convocation of the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS). A total of 26,469 students graduated on Thursday and 84 students of undergraduate, postgraduate, and PhD programmes were awarded gold medals at the ceremony held in the Nimhans Convention Centre here. Naidu

Bengaluru Apr 13: The prosecution and the complainant have filed appeals before the High Court of Karnataka, challenging the city civil and sessions court order discharging Raghaveshwara Bharathi Swami of Sri Ramachandrapura Mutt, who was chargesheeted for allegedly raping a devotee of the Mutt. On Thursday, both the appeals were listed before Justice Arvind Kumar. He observed that Chief Justice

New Delhi, Apr 13: The Supreme Court on Thursday granted bail to a man, undergoing life term for his involvement in a series of blasts at various churches in Karnataka in 2000, on medical ground. A bench of Justices S A Bobde and L Nageswara Rao relied upon a medical report furnished by Additional Advocate General Devadatt Kamat, confirming that the applicant, Abdul Rehman Sait suffered from

Bengaluru, Apr 13: The BJP's nationwide fast led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi will result in the saffron party's sanyaas (renunciation) in the Karnataka Assembly elections followed by vanvaas (exile) in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, AICC national spokesperson Randeep S Surjewala said on Thursday. "The time for upvas (fasting) is over. The time for sanyaas from seat of power begins with a defeat in

Hubballi Apr 12: BJP supremo Amit Shah, who visited Siddharooda Mutt here on Thursday to seek the blessings and support for the upcoming Karnataka assembly polls, was taken aback when Sri Paramarooda Swamiji of Seemikeri directly demanded the saffron party’s B Form to contest the polls from Bilagi constituency in Bagalkot district. "I have already campaigned in 130 villages, and have forwarded an

Bengaluru, Apr 12: The Congress party on Thursday requested Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to contest the upcoming elections from Badami Assembly constituency too. Congress leaders from Badami in Bagalkote district met the Chief Minister and said that if he contests the polls from their region then it will benefit the party in north Karnataka. Siddaramaiah, however, said that the leaders

Bengaluru, Apr 12: Karnataka BJP president B S Yeddyurappa has warned his party’s candidates that they would not get expected results in the Assembly elections if they failed to woo Dalits and backward classes in their constituencies. Speaking at a pre-poll workshop of the BJP on election management, the former chief minister stressed the need for taking all the communities with the party to

Bengaluru, Apr 12: The cab driver who allegedly mowed down J D Tejaswini, a 22-year-old software engineer and state level footballer, in the city last weekend, has finally been arrested by the police. Ranga Reddy, 35, is a resident of Kodichikkanahalli and a native of Ballari. Reddy, who works with Uber, was ferrying a passenger near Electronics City when Banashankari traffic police detained him

Bengaluru, Apr 12: Nitish Kumar, chief minister of Bihar, who was in the city on Wednesday, recalled the contribution of politicians from Karnataka towards the birth and growth of Janata Parivar. Speaking at a programme in the city, he stressed that Janata Dal was born in Karnataka. He said Shantaveri Gopalagowda, S Venkatram, S Bangarappa and Kagodu Thimmappa have contributed immensely for the