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New Delhi, Aug 24: Union ministers Arun Jaitley and Prakash Javadekar were today appointed the BJP's election in-charge for the high-stakes Gujarat and Karnataka assembly polls respectively. BJP chief Amit Shah also appointed four Union ministers -- Narendra Singh Tomar, Nirmala Sitharaman, Jitendra Singh and P P Choudhary -- co-in-charge for the Gujarat polls, scheduled to be held later this year

Chhatarpur (MP), Aug 24: A Hindu man and his family here have embraced Islam after allegedly facing social boycott for over 28 years since he married a Muslim woman. Vinod Prakash Khare (51), a resident of Rajnagar town in the district in Bundelkhand region, said he had married a Muslim woman nearly 28 years back. Post the marriage, his wife was assigned a Hindu name. However, their alliance was

Bengaluru, Aug 24: Intense lobbying from two groups of Dalit community has forced Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to delay the Karnataka cabinet expansion. The ruling Congress is said to be in a dilemma on whether to provide ministerial berth to left or right wing of the Dalit community. Though the high command had approved a list of names for filling up the vacancies in the council of ministers last

Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 24: A 30-year-old RSS activist, accused in 2016 Anil Faisal murder case, was hacked to death in Kerala's Malappuram on Thursday morning, according to reports. Vipin, who was out on bail, was attacked near Pulinchode at around 7 am and the police found his body with serious injuries on a roadside. He was then rushed to Tirur's government hospital where he was declared dead

Bengaluru, Aug 24: Kannada actress Rachana, best known for her role in the television serial Mahanadi, was killed after a car they were travelling in collided with a truck in Karnataka’s Magadi on Thursday night. Rachana (23) was accompannied by her co-star Jeevan, who was also killed in the accident. Rachana and Jeevan were on their way to the Kukke Subramanaya temple to celebrate actor Karthik’s

Bengaluru, Aug 24: The state government on Wednesday again sent to Governor Vajubhai Vala an ordinance bill that sought to circumvent a recent Supreme Court order on the consequential seniority in promotions awarded to SC/ST employees, urging him to promulgate the ordinance. The government clarified to the Governor on the need for promulgating the ordinance. The ordinance bill is aimed at

Bengaluru, Aug 24: The Supreme Court has stayed death penalty of a Gadag resident on his appeal challenging conviction and punishment for rape-cum-murder of a five-year-old girl child. A bench of Justices Dipak Misra, Kurian Joseph and Amitava Roy suspended execution of Irappa Siddappa Murgannavar till further orders. The petitioner challenged the High Court of Karnataka’s order of March 6. The

Mumbai, Aug 24: The Reserve Bank will launch Rs 200 banknotes for the first time tomorrow, increasing availability of lower denomination currency in the system. The bright yellow coloured notes will hit the market just a day after the announcement by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley that the government has given go-ahead to the RBI to issue the new currency bill. "The Reserve Bank of India will issue

Bengaluru, Aug 24: Veerashaiva-Lingayat seers came together on Wednesday and demanded a 12-15% reservation for the community, while intensifying their demand for a separate religion status. Pontiffs representing the influential Panchapeeta mutts as well as several other independent mutts of the Basavadisharana tradition had gathered under the banner of Veerashaiva-Lingayat Coordination Committee

Bengaluru, Aug 24: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has got a ‘clean chit’ from the Justice H S Kempanna Commission, which inquired into charges of illegal denotification of parcels of land acquired for BDA’s Arkavathy Layout, by successive governments. Three years after the state government constituted the Commission in 2014, Justice Kempanna submitted a eport to Chief Secretary Subhash Chandra