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In a major embarrassment to Karnataka BJP and its chief ministerial candidate B S Yeddyurappa, the party’s national president Amit Shah has described the former as the most corrupt in the state. The video clip of the slip of the tongue is now going viral on social media. “Recently, a retired Supreme Court judge said if there was ever a competition of the most corrupt government, then the

Even before the Election Commission of India announced the dates for the Karnataka Assembly Elections, a controversy erupted over a post by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) IT cell chief Amit Malviya on microblogging site Twitter on Tuesday. Before Chief Election Commissioner Om Prakash Rawat declared the dates, Malviya tweeted that the polling will be held on May 12 and the results would be declared

Udupi, Mar 27: A local court in the coastal district has ordered the Passport Office to restrain a litigant, Jagadish alias Jagannath of Nada village of Kundapur taluk, preventing him from fleeing abroad as he had “cheated his lawfully wedded wife by marrying another woman”. Amitha, the aggrieved woman had approached the Udupi Superintendent of Police seeking police protection for herself and her

Bengaluru, Mar 27: Downplaying the experts’ warning over the possibility of the tampering of electronic voting machine, election officials have urged the voters to be wary of “rumours” being spread about the EVM functioning. “EVMs cannot be tampered with and there are adequate technical and administrative safeguards in place. It is a proven machine being used since 1999 and it is highly secure,”

The Election Commission of Indian on Tuesday, March 27, announced the dates for Karnataka assembly elections. Elections will be held in a single phase on May 12 and the results will be announced on May 15. The term of the current 224-member legislative assembly ends on May 28. Chief minister Siddaramaiah has convened a meeting of the cabinet on Tuesday, but he may call it off if the poll calendar

Bengaluru, Mar 27: Days after IPS officer D Roopa said she has declined an award by a city-based foundation, the latter today said it was never offered to her. "She was never offered this award and so there is no case of her turning it down," the Namma Bengaluru Foundation (NBF), headed by BJP Rajya Sabha MP Rajeev Chandrasekhar, said in a statement here. The NBF confers awards to Bengaluru-based

Udupi, Mar 27: A former employee of Congress leader and Rajya Sabha member Oscar Fernandes has threatened to stage a hunger protest at Freedom Park in Bengaluru from April 2 demanding his pending salaries. Gopal Poojary, who worked in Fernandes' house for more than 15 years, told media persons here that the veteran politician committed a criminal breach of trust and snatched his rights. “I worked

Bengaluru, Mar 27: Days after his two sons – H D Revanna and H D Kumaraswamy – lashed out at AICC president Rahul Gandhi for terming JD(S) as the “B-team of the BJP”, the party supremo H D Deve Gowda on Monday launched a direct attack on him and issued a him a warning against testing his patience Addressing reporters, 84-year-old former prime minister called Rahul immature and accused his party of

Cobrapost, an investigative platform, which carried out several sting operations on communal and corrupt politicians in the past, this time exposed several prominent Indian media houses whose representatives were caught on camera expressing their willingness to spread communal hatred and promote so called “Hindutva” for money. Codenamed ‘Operation 136’, the sting operation was conducted to expose

Mangaluru: If everything goes as expected a state-of-the-art market-cum-commercial complex will come up at Mallikatta in the heart of the city within a couple of years. Mangaluru City South MLA J R Lobo and Mayor K Bhaskar Moily on Monday, March 26, laid the foundation stone for the multi-crore project proposed by the Mangaluru City Corporation. The complex, to be built on 45 cents of land after