Karnataka

Bengaluru, Oct 10: Amid growing discontent in the party and alliance partner Congress over her candidature, JD(S) has decided to go ahead and field Anitha, wife of chief minister H D Kumaraswamy, for the November 3 bypoll to the Ramanagara assembly segment. Following a meeting with party workers in Ramanagara on Tuesday, JD(S) taluk president Rajashekar said Anitha will file her nomination papers

Setting an example of religious harmony, people belonging to both Hindu and Muslim community pay obeisance at the Dargah of Harzat Shah Ruknuddin Tola in the Kalaburgi district of Karnataka. The doors of the shrine are apparently "open for all." The shrine is dedicated to a 14th century Muslim saint, who spent around 40 years praying on the hillock, on the top of which the shrine is constructed

New Delhi, Oct 9: Defending its decision to hold by-election in the three Lok Sabha constituencies in Karnataka, the Election Commission on Tuesday said that they have followed Section 151A of the Representation of the People Act, which mandates the Commission to fill the vacancies through by-election within six months. In a statement, the Commission said that “Section 151A of the Representation

Bengaluru, Oct 9: A teenage student-cum-bread winner paid a heavy price for following traffic rules after he stopped his bike at a junction when the signal turned red and was run over by a drunk motorist in southeast Bengaluru. Praveen Kumar(19), a resident of Chamarajpet worked as a data-entry operator to support his family and was a first-year BSc student at Jain Evening College. He was headed

Mangaluru, Oct 9: The passenger train services Bengaluru and Mangaluru will resume on Wednesday (October 10), after a gap of two months. The Bengaluru-Karwar/Kannur-Bengaluru night express will start on Wednesday while the day train will start on Thursday, said SWR CPRO E. Vijaya. Train services were cancelled following multiple landslips induced by torrential rains on Sakleshpur-Subrahmanya Road

Kalaburagi, Oct 9: In a disturbing incident, a 12-year-old boy hanged himself to death in this city of Karnataka, but police suspect that family matters could have been the cause rather than that he was influenced by the alleged 'blue whale' online challenge, as per reports. Police said on Tuesday that the boy died due to hanging and Raghavendra Police station officials had launched a probe on

Hyderabad, Oct 9: Senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily today said the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Samajwadi Party (SP) would be part of the grand alliance of opposition parties against the BJP-led NDA in the next year's Lok Sabha polls. He also claimed the Congress will win at least four of the five states where assembly elections will be held over the next two months. The former union

New Delhi, Oct 9: Messaging platform WhatsApp Tuesday said it has set up a system in India that stores payments-related data locally in the country to comply with RBI regulations. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), in a circular dated April 6, had said all system providers shall ensure that the entire data relating to payment systems operated by them are stored in a system only in India. It had

Newsroom, Oct 9: A new-mother and her paramour from coastal Karnataka have been remanded to judicial custody by a local court in Tamil Nadu for two weeks after their arrest in connection with the coldblooded murder of former’s husband Mohammad Sameer. 35-year-old Sameer, who hailed from Ganjimutt in Mangaluru taluk had gone missing a month after he returned from Saudi Arabia to see his wife

Belagavi, Oct 9: In a case of rash and negligent driving, two sisters were knocked down by a BMW car owned by Goa MLA Glen Ticlo and driven by his son Kyle Ticlo on National Highway 4A in Karnataka’s Belagavi last evening. While the elder sister lost her life, the younger one is battling for life in a hospital. The accident occurred at 6.05pm when the two sisters - Tamreen Khalid Bispi and