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Bengaluru, Aug 23: The imminent entry of seven ticket-monger rebel JD(S) MLAs into the Congress has created a sense of insecurity among several Congress leaders in Karnataka. Senior leaders in the ruling party have commenced lobbying for ticket for their loyalists and kin for the 2018 Assembly elections. The JD(S) rebel legislators will officially join the Congress soon and they have been

Madikeri, Aug 23: When the ruling Congress in Karnataka was considering action against T P Ramesh, chairman of Karnataka Silk Marketing Board Limited, who was caught misbehaving with MLC Veena Achaiah during the Independence Day celebrations at Madikeri, the latter has quit the party. Apart from quitting the post as board chairman, Ramesh also resigned from the primary membership of the party

Belagavi, Aug 23: The mega Lingayat convention and rally organized at Lingaraj College Grounds here on Tuesday to put pressure on the state and central governments to accord the separate religion status to the community saw lakhs of people converging from different parts of Karnataka and neighbouring states. However, BJP leaders stayed away from the event. The convention concluded with a single

Mangaluru, Aug 23: One of the prime accused in the murder of RSS activist Sharath Madiwala was arrested by the Dakshina Kannada police on Tuesday. With this, the police have arrested 10 persons in connection with the case. Superintendent of Police C.H. Sudheer Kumar Reddy gave the name of the prime accused as Sharief, 20, son of Ismail, a resident of Alady near Sajipamunnoor in Bantwal. He was

Bengaluru, Aug 22: The state BJP leaders on Monday complained to Governor Vajubhai Vala against the state government for “misusing” the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) to target its leaders and urged him to order a high-level enquiry into the issue. Besides, the party urged the Governor to direct the government to immediately suspend Director General of Police (ACB) M N Reddi and remove adviser to

Bengaluru, Aug 22: He brings alive drab political speeches in public with wit, sarcasm as well as Basavanna's vachanas and Sanskrit shlokas. The unopposed election of Congress candidate C M Ibrahim to the Karnataka legislative council (formal announcement of his election will be on August 24) from the assembly set at rest speculation of his quitting the party as the JD(S) and BJP were reportedly

New Delhi, Aug 22: Two months after the United States (US) declared him a global terrorist, the Islamic State has claimed that its operative Shafi Armar from Karnataka's Bhatkal acted as a suicide bomber and killed several people in Syria's Raqqa. There is no confirmation from the Indian agencies about the death of Armar, who is considered a recruiter for the IS from India, though a US monitoring

New Delhi, Aug 22: In a landmark judgment, the Supreme Court on Tuesday suspended the triple talaq verdict for the next six months with immediate effect. The top court also asked the Parliament to bring in the new law to govern the issue. Three out of five judges hearing the case have declared triple talaq as 'arbitary' and 'unconstitutional'. A five-judge bench comprising of Chief Justice Jagdish

New Delhi, Aug 22: The Congress high command has instructed the Karnataka unit not to promise the party ticket to anyone, including the seven rebel MLAs of the JD(S), for the next year’s Assembly elections. The party is planning to field many new faces. The MLAs met Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi on August 16 and expressed their willingness to join the Congress. They claimed

New Delhi, Aug 22: A petitioner opposing the Yettinahole drinking water project near Sakleshpur informed the National Green Tribunal on Monday that the Karnataka government failed to obtain mandatory Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) approval since it was an irrigation project and required large scale diversion of forest land. Advocate Ritwick Dutta representing petitioner K N Somashekhar said