Karnataka

Kolhapur, Dec 30: In a major breakthrough, Kolhapur police on Friday arrested five youths from Belgavi district in Karnataka for their alleged involvement in the attack on a Sunday mass in Kowad village of Chandgad taluka, about 100km from here. "Preliminary investigation has revealed that the arrested suspects do not belong to a particular organization but are associated with different radical

Lucknow, Dec 29: Investigation into the coldblooded murder of Uttar Pradesh’s upright police inspector Subodh Kumar Singh has brought to light a shocking truth that he was brutally tortured and his thumb was chopped by the self-proclaimed saviours of Hindutva before he was shot dead in broad daylight at Bulandshahr earlier this month. According to police sources, the officer was hit with a sharp

Bengaluru, Dec 29: Former Prime Minister and JD(S) supremo H D Deve Gowda today said that his party will seek 12 Lok Sabha seats from Congress in Karnataka in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. In the 2014 Lok Sabha election JD(S) had won only two seats (Hassan and Mandya) of the total 28 seats it had contested. However the party came close second in three to four other seats. BJP and Congress had won

Bengaluru, Dec 29: Fissure likely to have appeared in the 6-month-old JD(S)-Congress coalition government in the State as the Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy chose to ignore AICC General Secretary K C Venugopal’s recommendation to allocate ministry of Ports to one of the newly inducted eight Congress ministers. Mr Venugopal, who is also party incharge of Karnataka affairs, after holding

Bengaluru, Dec 29: Karnataka Legislative Assembly Secretary S Murthy was kept under suspension on Saturday on graft charges. According to official source, the suspension was based on a report by a five-member Committee set up by Legislative Assembly Speaker Ramesh Kumar to inquire into allegations about Mr Murthy swindling funds during Winter Session held at Suvarna Soudha, Belagavi, in 2016-17

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Bengaluru, Dec 29: Taking a dig at BJP leaders, who were "expecting" the Congress-JDS coalition government to fall, JDS leader DC Thamanna has drawn an analogy between them and the 'street dogs' while refuting BJP lawmaker Umesh Katti's claim that the dispensation would collapse soon. Katti had recently claimed that 15 disgruntled MLAs of the ruling coalition were in touch with him and that the

Kannur, Dec 29: In a touching reunion, 93-year-old EK Narayanan Nambiar, who was imprisoned for participating in the 1946 violent peasant struggle in Kavumbayi village of Kerala, met his first wife after 72 years, leaving them both speechless and teary-eyed. As the two sat quietly and wiped away tears, Sarada, now 89, said she did not harbour any anger against anyone. "I am not angry with anyone,"

Mangaluru, Dec 29: Around four and a half years after a 19-year-old boy was brutally murdered in broad daylight, a local court has sentenced a 23-year-old man to life imprisonment. The convict is Ashrith alias Ashu, son of former corporator Kamalaksha Bajilakeri. The first additional district and sessions court also directed him to deposit a fine of Rs 1 lakh, of which Rs 90,000 will be handed

Newsroom, Dec 29: A pro-Sangh Parivar journalist, who had earned the wrath of Muslim community in Karnataka by making derogatory remarks against Prophet Muhammad, has tendered an apology publicly. Ajit Hanumakkanavar, a Kannada journalist, who appears on Suvarna News Kannada TV channel, during a debate, had unwarrantedly hurled offensive remarks against whom Muslims believe the God’s final