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Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s son Dr Yathindra and Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy’s daughter Sowmya Reddy are among the probable candidates for the 2018 Karnataka Assembly polls from different constituencies. However, Siddaramaiah on Thursday claimed that Dr Yathindra has not sought the Congress party ticket to contest from Varuna constituency in the forthcoming Assembly elections. "My son hasn't

The Karnataka Congress has shortlisted two to three candidates each for constituencies where the party got defeated in the 2013 Assembly elections. A majority of the incumbent Congress members of the Assembly are expected to get ticket, sources in the party said. The party has received a whopping 1,570 applications for the 224 constituencies in the State. The party’s election committee members on

Mangaluru, Mar 15: Two youths have been arrested on charges of sexually assaulting a 19-year-old married woman in Kasaragod. Suhail, 23, and K.H. Saifuddin, 24, students of an engineering college in Mangaluru, were arrested after the woman lodged a complaint, Kasaragod Town Principal Sub-Inspector P. Ajithkumar said. The FIR said the woman who had left her in-laws house on March 7 with a close

Panaji, Mar 14: Underlining that online promotion of sex trade is a "complex social issue", Goa Governor Mridula Sinha today appealed to various agencies to launch combined efforts to curb the menace. The governor also said parents and teachers need to be more vigilant to ensure that girls don't fall prey to "such ills". "Online promotion of sex trade is a complex social issue which requires

Bengaluru, Mar 15: A special investigation team (SIT) probing the Guari Lankesh murder case has written to the Gujarat Forensic Laboratory seeking to fix a date to conduct a narco-analysis test on the accused KT Naveen Kumar. On March 12, a local court had given permission to the SIT to go ahead with the narco test after the accused kept changing his statements time and again. "We have sought

Bengaluru, Mar 15: The JD(S) on Wednesday decided to initiate legal action against the seven rebel MLAs who voted in favour of the Congress candidate during the 2016 Rajya Sabha election. In a statement, JD(S) supremo H D Deve Gowda said that the party will move the High Court against the MLAs for defying its whip in the election.The party's candidate B M Farookh lost the election due to the cross

Bengaluru, Mar 15: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday took a dig at Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for the BJP's defeat in the by-elections to the Lok Sabha from Gorakhpur and Phulpur constituencies. Siddaramaiah said that he now hopes that Adityanath will stop "lecturing" Karnataka on development. The duo were recently engaged in a Twitter war, on the issues of development and

Magadi (Ramanagaram district), Mar 15: Three local JD(S) leaders, including a Magadi Town Municipal Council member, were injured after they were attacked by the Congress party workers during wee hours of Wednesday. The attack took place over certain remarks on WhatsApp messages, said the police. The victims, K V Balaraghu, Hosahalli Muniraju and Javaregowda, have been admitted to KIMS, Bengaluru

Mangaluru/Udupi, Mar 14: Parts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts received thundershowers on Wednesdayfollowing the depression over southeast Arabian Sea. The areas included Puttur, Sullia, Bantwal and Belthangady taluks, besides Mangaluru and surrounding areas. The Met Department said the depression has moved northwest and lay centred over southeast Arabian Sea, about 130 km southeast of

Mangaluru, Mar 14: The city police have busted a fake certificate racket after conducting a raid on Mangalore Institute of Technological Science (MITS) located on TC Road in Thokottu on the outskirts of Mangaluru. The staff of the MITS which came into existence in 2016, reportedly used to sell fake certificates of various courses dated since 2013. Following the raid, the police arrested Godwin D