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New Delhi, Feb 7: Concerned over the attacks on journalists and police failing to catch culprits, a Trinamool Congress MP will move a private resolution in Rajya Sabha on Friday seeking a separate section in Indian Penal Code dealing with offences against media persons. Referring to the murder of Gauri Lankesh in Bengaluru last September, journalist-turned MP Vivek Gupta said in his private member

Bengaluru, Feb 7: Police have booked Kalyani Motors, an authorised dealer and service centre for Maruti Suzuki, for the February 2 car fire that killed a mother and her son in East Bengaluru. They ruled out foul play after initial probe and are convinced that the car with the 30-year-old woman and her four-year-old son went up in a ball of fire due to a mechanical and electrical fault. A senior

Bengaluru Feb 7: The Legislative Assembly on Tuesday witnessed a heated discussion between the Congress and BJP on rowdy sheeters' list. The BJP members charged the Congress government was including members of the Sangh Parivar in the rowdy sheeters' list for political reasons. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah while rubbishing the charge said that names of any innocent in the list will be removed. The

New Delhi Feb 7: The Union Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas on Tuesday took objection to the procedure adopted by the Karnataka government to implement the Centrally sponsored free LPG connection distribution to poor households in the state, saying that it violated all guidelines. Taking exception to the norms announced by the Karnataka government to implement the Mukhya Mantri Anila Bhagya

Bengaluru Feb 7: A video clip, showing AICC social media chief Ramya, explaining how fake social media accounts work drew attention on Tuesday. The BJP used the clip as a counter to another video clip of its leader K S Eshwarappa urging partyworkers to lie as part of an election campaign, which had gone viral. The Congress used this to mount an attack on the saffron party. The video clip of Ramya

Bengaluru Feb 7: Countering the BJP's claims that as many as 26 RSS/BJP workers had been murdered in the last four years, Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy told the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday that only nine Hindus had died in communal incidents during the said period. He also said that the 14 other deaths were due to various other reasons, including personal enmity or suicides. As the murders of

A court in the capital of India on Tuesday framed conspiracy and other terror charges against alleged Indian Mujahideen operative Yasin Bhatkal and eight others in a case of allegedly setting up an illegal arms factory in Delhi. Additional Sessions Judge Sidharth Sharma framed the charges of conspiracy (section 18) and being a member of terrorist gang or organisation (section 20), punishable under

Riyadh, Feb 6: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today arrived in Riyadh on her maiden visit to Saudi Arabia during which she will inaugurate the Janadriyah festival of the Gulf Kingdom, which is home to over three million Indians. During the three-day visit, Ms Swaraj will meet with the Saudi leadership and discuss bilateral, regional and global issues of mutual interest. She will also

Bengaluru, Feb 6: The Congress dared Prime Minister Narendra Modi to either dismiss the party's government in Karnataka and register cases against the corrupt, or tender an unconditional apology for his charges against it. The party was reacting to Modi's attack on the Siddaramaiah government at a public rally here on Sunday. The prime minister had accused the Congress government in Karnataka of

Bengaluru, Feb 6: The Karnataka BJP has alleged that the Siddaramaiah-led government in the state was adopting the West Bengal and Kerala models for targeting its workers and "committing political murders". The Karnataka BJP Digital Communications Team made the accusation in a statement yesterday on social media site Facebook. "Never in Karnataka history had people witnessed political murders in