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Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has expressed confidence that all three Congress candidates from Karnataka will win in the upcoming Vidhana Sabha to Rajya Sabha elections. Speaking to media persons in Davanagere the CM said that the cabinet of ministers would meet to decide on the matter of granting separate religion tag to Lingayats on March 14. "Protest is the lifeblood of a democracy and religious

Mangaluru, Mar 13: The Dakshina Kannada district police have arrested a youth from Meramajalu in Bantwal taluk booked under Pocso Act, six years after he bail. 32-year old Lawrence Melwyn D’Souza alias Jeevan was selling fish in Moodbidri posing as a Muslim man with a new name, Mohammed Salman, on Sunday when he was caught by the police. According to a police officer at the Bantwal Rural police

Jaya Bachchan, the first lady of Bollywood, and Samajwadi Party leader, has emerged the richest candidate among all who filed nominations for the March 23 Rajya Sabha polls in India. She has declared assets worth Rs 1,000 crore. Jaya, who recently filed her nomination as an SP candidate for the Rajya Sabha polls from Uttar Pradesh, had declared assets worth Rs 493 crore in 2012. According to her

Hubballi, Mar 13: A visually impaired seer from Dharwad district is is keen on getting the BJP ticket for contesting from Kalaghatagi Assembly constituency in looming Karnataka assembly polls. Basavanand Swami, seer of Sri Guru Basava Mahamane at Managundi in Dharwad, said he had already completed a “Desha Bhakti Jagruti Abhiyana”, which he had started on January 1 under which he had travelled 2

Dr Anup A Shetty, Superintendent of Police of Koppal, has lodged a complaint with the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) questioning his sudden transfer. In the complaint, Shetty, who is yet to complete eight months in his current position, has challenged the sudden transfer. In his petition, he has termed the transfer orders 'not as per norms'. CAT has stayed Shetty's transfer order. The date

Udupi, Mar 13: Shiroor mutt pontiff Sri Laxmivara Teertha Swami’s decision to contest upcoming Assembly election from Udupi constituency is a political conspiracy, according to BJP leader and former Udupi MLA K Raghupathy Bhat. Speaking to reporters, here Mr Bhat accused District in-charge Minister Madhwaraj of hatching up a conspiracy against him joining hands with the seer. “They seer said he

Bengaluru, Mar 13: The special investigation team (SIT) probing the murder of journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh will conduct a narcoanalysis test on accused K T Naveen Kumar, a Hindutva leader and gunrunner. The 8th Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) court, on Monday, allowed the SIT to conduct narco-analysis tests on Naveen Kumar, a leader of Hindu Yuva Sene, who was arrested and

Kolar, Mar 13: Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Council K S Eshwarappa on Monday claimed that the BJP had assured him of the ticket to contest from the Shimoga Assembly constituency. "Issues regarding the party's official candidate from Shimoga Assembly segment have been cleared. I will stay off from Sangolli Rayanna brigade as the party has promised me the ticket,"he told reporters

New Delhi Mar 13: The Supreme Court on Monday allowed an NGO to withdraw its plea for staying Karnataka's Ordinance allowing traditional buffalo race 'Kambala' after the state government submitted it has become infructous with enactment of a fresh law. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud took the submission made by Additional Advocate General

Bengaluru Mar 13: The Congress high command's choice of candidates for the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls from the state is seen as a setback to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, who had been emerging as a powerful regional leader of the party. While giving prominence to young and loyal leaders -- Nasir Hussain, L Hanumanthaiah and G C Chandrashekhar, the high command has chosen to ignore names proposed by