Karnataka

Bengaluru, Sept 19: Former Congress Minister A. Manju on Wednesday accused Janata Dal-Secular (JDS) chief HD Deve Gowda's kin of encroaching government land. Manju told ANI that 54.29 acres of government land has been registered in the name of Deve Gowda's mother-in-law and grandson. "Nearly 54.29 acres of government land is registered in the name of Karnataka Minister HD Revanna former Prime

Like people of all regions and religions, a large number of Hindus have been migrating to all the parts of world. The reason behind this is better pastures and better living standards in those places. In most parts of the world one can see a substantial number of Hindus and people of Indian origin. The concentration of these émigrés is particularly more in richer countries. Earlier large number of

Bengaluru, Sept 19: Nearly three months after the arrest of a notorious chain-snatcher, the Bengaluru police have managed to catch his wife, who had set the target of snatching at least three chains a day. With the arrest of this couple, the police have solved over one hundred chain snatching cases. 31-year-old Achyuth Kumar and his 28-year-old wife Mahadevi have reportedly confessed to their

New Delhi, Sept 19: The BJP on Wednesday made a rather unusual but blistering attack on Congress saying there was a "money trail" through Hawala route linking the flow of huge currencies to the AICC. "Congress and corruption have become synonymous...unaccounted cash, Hawala transactions and corrupt deals...these are the pillars on which the Congress party sits," BJP spokesman Sambit Patra told

Bengaluru, Sept 19: Opposition Leader in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly Mr B S Yeddyurappa, who is also State BJP President, made a scathing attack on the functioning of the JDS-Congress Coalition government headed by Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy and termed it as a 'Commission Agent' and transfers were undertaken by taking commission. "No file moves without giving bribe. The Ministers are

Bengaluru, Sept 19: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday outrightly rejected allegations that the Central agencies were misused to harass Congress or Janata Dal (Secular) leaders. "I don't think, it is the job of CBI or ED to harass people. I don't think such things happen. People should stop making such accusations. It is not good. Aren't we all sitting together or not?" said Singh

Bangaluru, Sept 19: Sandalwood superstar Upendra, who had to move out of newly formed Karnataka Pragnyavantara Janata Paksha (KPJP) around six months ago, on Tuesday officially launched his ‘own’ Uttama Prajaakeeya Party (UPP) to mark his birth day. As the acronym of the new political party – UPP – is similar to his nickname ‘Uppi’ and sensing the possibility of it turning out to be more about

Bengaluru, Sept 19: After the intervention of chief minister H D Kumaraswamy, Congress leader and MLA Satish Jarkiholi has declared the end of political turmoil where as latter’s elder brother and Municipalities Minister Ramesh Jarkiholi remained firm on his demands. “There is no problem now. It’s is a closed chapter. The CM has promised to resolve all issues raised by us,” Satish told reporters

Bengaluru, Sept 19: Customs officials have successfully thwarted a mid-air attempt to smuggle gold on board an Air India flight from Dubai. The episode ended with the arrest of two men and seizure of 1.32 kg of gold paste worth Rs 41.3 lakh concealed in their footwear. The officials claimed that the modus operandi was to grind gold ornaments into a paste and conceal it in the inner lining of the

Hubballi, Sept 19: Hundreds of Dalits, belonging to various organisations, took out a protest march in Hubballi on Tuesday as part of the “Save Constitution” rally demanding the government to take steps to save the Constitution of India. The rally was organised by the “Vividha Dalita Sangha Samsthegala Mahamandala”, federation of various Dalit organisations, to condemn the incident in which a copy