Karnataka

Bengaluru, Sept 23: Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president Dinesh Gundu Rao on Saturday accused Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader BS Yeddyurappa for calling up Congress legislators and urging them to switch sides by offering inducements, ahead of 2019 general elections. Talking to reporters, Rao said, "They are telling the MLAs, "we have the Central Government with us, you come

Mangaluru: The APD Foundation has been awarded the Skoch Order of Merit, for their project ‘Namma Mangaluru Swaccha Mangaluru’, during a ceremony held at the Constitution Club of India in New Delhi on 19th September 2018. APD Foundation was rated and qualified on three parameters: early bird, jury evaluation and popular vote. Arjun Rai, a director of the APD foundation, received the award on

Bengaluru, Sept 22: Supreme Court Judge Justice S Abdul Nazir today advocated making rural service compulsory for young Advocates also on the lines of MBBS graduates. "Though we secure seat in National Law School and became good Advocates, we are giving less attention to serve in villages. But about 90 per cent of the litigations belong to rural areas and relating to problems faced by villagers

Bengaluru, Sept 22: Police have nabbed two teen-aged boys who had indulged in vehicle lifting and and seized from them 27 Two wheelers worth about Rs 9 lakhs. Police said on Saturday that the arrested were identified as M Niranjan and N Nitin. While Niranjan had studied upto PUC, Nitin had discontinued Diploma Course in Automobile. The due after discontinuing their studies had resorted to vehicle

Chikamagaluru, Sept 22: Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy today defended his call for 'the people to Revolt' against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) stating that the party has indulged in frequent attempts of 'Operation Lotusl' to lure ruling party legislators, hampering developmental activities taken up in the State by the JDS-Congress coalition government. "I have not made any provoking or

Bengaluru, Sept 22: The Karnataka Government has announced release of Rs 50,000 additional compensation to each of the affected family in the flood ravaged Kodagu District, Minister for Revenue and Skill Development R V Deshpande said on Saturday. In a release here, he said that since there was appeal for more compensation as Rs 1800 for cloths and Rs 2000 paid for purchase of provisions etc.

Mysuru, Sept 22: Karnataka Minister for Higher Education G T Deve Gowda, who is also District Incharge Minister, said that the recent political developments will not have any bearing on the arrangements taken up for the Dasara festivities in October. Dasara will be well organised and will go as planned by the government irrespective of the efforts being made to destabilise the coalition government

Kasaragod, Sept : Human rights campaigner and social activist Shabnam Hashmi has called for the ouster of the Narendra Modi led government to safeguard the democratic and Constitutional tenets of the country. The social activist, who was here to flag off the five-day long ‘Bathen Aman Ki’ (Peace Conversation) Yatra from Kerala to New Delhi, was addressing a meet-the-press on Friday. She said women

Bengaluru, Sept 22: The political war in Karnataka escalated on Friday with JDS asking the Assembly Speaker to stop alleged horse trading by the BJP, which also moved the Governor seeking action against Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy for asking people to wage a "war" against the BJP. The BJP also filed a complaint with the state DGP seeking action on the ground of sedition against HD Kumaraswamy, a

Kalaburgi, Sept 22: In a bizarre incident, a 10-year-old boy has allegedly committed suicide after his mother refused his demand to prepare non-vegetarian dish at Venkatapura in Sedam taluk of Kalaburagi district in Karnataka. According to police, Ramdas Raju Rathod (10) made several requests to his mother to prepare the mutton dish. But she said she couldn’t spend time in the kitchen as the