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Bengaluru, Sept 1: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday inducted three new faces into his council of ministers to fill the vacant slots months ahead of the Assembly polls in Karnataka. At a ceremony held at Raj Bhavan, Governor Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala administered the oath of office and secrecy to H M Revanna, R B Thimmapur and Dr M C Mohan Kumari (Geetha Mahadeva Prasad). Revanna and Thimmapur

Bengaluru, Sept 1: It’s official. Senior Congress leader R Ramalinga Reddy, who was the Minister for Transport so far, is the new Home Minister of Karnataka. Reddy, the six-time MLA was on Friday handed over the Home portfolio that was with the Chief Minister Siddaramaiah after G Parameshwara resigned from the powerful post earlier this year. Reddy’s Transport portfolio was handed over to new

Mangaluru, Sept 1: Downplaying the recent Supreme Court verdict on ‘instant triple talaq’, senior Islamic scholar Thwaqa Ahmed Musliyar has clarified that the much-hyped practice doesn’t even exist in Islam. The Supreme Court of India last month scrapped the controversial practice of ‘instant triple talaq’ and called it unconstitutional. Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed the verdict as victory

Bengaluru, Sept 1: Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) President G Parameshwara has dismissed the media reports about his attempts to bring Kannada actor Darshan to the party as “mere rumours”. “I don’t know anything about Darshan joining the Congress,” Parameshwara told reporters. He also clarified that he never tired to woo Darshan or any other actor to join the party. “Not just Darshan

Bengaluru, Sept 1: Former chairman of Infosys R Seshasayee on Friday shot back at the company’s co-founder Narayana Murthy, claiming that the latter on carrying out his personal ‘vendetta' against him and his charges were extremely offensive. “To quote an anonymous whistleblower letter that alleged many things, which have subsequently been proved baseless and false through multiple investigations

Mangaluru/Udupi, Sept 1: Eid al-Adha, the festival of sacrifice, was celebrated with religious fervor across coastal districts of Dakshina Kannada, Udupi and some parts of neighboring districts on Friday. In their sermons, the clerics stressed for unity and communal harmony while delivering the message of the Eid. Locally known as ‘Bakrid’, the second major festival of Islamic calendar is

Udupi, Sept 1: The general body meeting of the Udupi City Municipal Council (CMC) ended in just 25 minutes after the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) councillors created ruckus in the House. The BJP councillors rushed to the well of the House and demanded that the issue of dismantling of shamiana by CMC personnel at the BJP’s protest venue at the Clock Tower on August 30, be discussed first

Bengaluru, Sept 1: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday said that as many as 100 urban local bodies will achieve the ‘open defecation free’ (ODF) status by the end of this year. Siddaramaiah, who launched phase three of the Rs 2,847-crore Nagarottana project in Bengaluru on Thursday, said that at present, of the 277 ULBs, 19 of them had attained this status. Representatives of these ULBs were

New Delhi, Sept 1: When rape accused Dera chief Ram Rahim Singh defended himself in a CBI court saying he is 'impotent' and not capable of rape, the presiding judge reportedly shot back asking, “how your daughters were born?” Ram Rahim had reportedly presented many 'false facts' in the court in his defence. However, it overruled them and convicted him of rape on August 25. Dera chief had claimed

Bengaluru, Sept 1: AICC general secretary in charge of Karnataka K C Venugopal on Thursday is learnt to have pulled up the state party leaders for failing to set up booth-level committees and appoint booth agents across all Assembly constituencies in the state. Venugopal, who held revenue division-wise meetings at the KPCC office along with state unit president G Parameshara, threatened the newly