Karnataka

Bengaluru, Jul 2: Water Resources Minister D K Shivakumar on Sunday said that the Congress party had recognised even those who had grown up the ranks doing menial jobs like sweeping. Addressing the gathering after felicitating the newly elected Indian Youth Congress vice president Srinivas B V at Palace Grounds on Sunday, said Congress president Rahul Gandhi never hesitated from giving

Bengaluru, Jul 2: Eyebrows were raised when JD(S) supremo H D Deve Gowda was spotted at the Kumara Krupa guest house on Sunday, ahead of the coordination committee meeting of the JD(S)-Congress coalition government. Gowda’s presence at the guest house surprised many as he is not a member of the committee. The JD(S) patriarch, who has been attacked by the opposition for his continued “intervention”

Mumbai, Jul, 1: Five people were on Sunday lynched by a mob in Maharashtra's Dhule district over suspicion that they were part of a gang of "child lifters", police said. The incident took place at Rainpada, 25 kilometres from Pimpalner in Dhule district, at around 11.30 am, officials said. The five, along with a few others, were seen getting down from a state transport bus in the tribal-dominated

Bengaluru, Jul 1: A 40-year-old realtor attempted suicide outside Gate no. 2 of the Vidhana Soudha in the city yesterday. He claimed he was a victim of cheating and harassment. Gangadhar, a resident of Gauribidanur, stepped out his car, walked up to the security personnel outside Gate no. 2 and consumed poison, all while announcing that justice had not been served and that he was being harassed

Bengaluru, Jul 1: The wife of a senior officer of commercial taxes in Karnataka had to face questions from the sleuths of the National Investigating Agency (NIA) after the love story of a Hindu woman from Gujrat and Muslim man from Kerala culminated in exhibition of communal hatred. A section of media had called the inter-faith wedding a case of love-jihad, a term used by Indian Christian

Bengaluru, Jul 1: As many as four Congress leaders have filed a petition in the Karnataka High Court, challenging their defeat in the recent Assembly elections and have cited EVM hacking as the reason. Those approached the court include two former MLAs from Dakshina Kannada district. They are: B A Mohiuddin Bava, who lost to Dr Bharath Shetty in Mangaluru North and J R Lobo, who lost to Vedavyas

Bengaluru, Jul 1: A high level delegation from United Arab Emirates led by Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, called on Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy here yesterday. The two also discussed faculty, student exchange programmes and scholarships among other things. According to a release from the Chief Minister’s Secretariat, the

Dubai: Padma Vibhushana Dr D Veerendra Heggade, Dharmadhikari of Shree Kshetra Dharmastala has consented to be the chief guest of the first ever international Tulu meet ‘Vishwa Tulu Sammelana 2018’ in Dubai and he will be inaugurating the programme, presided by Padmashree Dr B R Shetty, Patron of Tuluvas in Dubai. The day long programme is scheduled to be held on November 23, 2018 at Ice Rink, Al

Bengaluru, Jul 1: Karnataka has decided to file an appeal before the Supreme Court challenging the formation of the Cauvery Water Management Authority (CWMA) and the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee (CWRC). The decision was taken at an all-party meeting chaired by Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy on Saturday. “The CWMA and the CWRC were formed without taking the state’s objections into

Mangaluru, Jun 30: Even as the row over the ban on headscarf inside the classroom in Mangaluru’s prestigious St Agnes College refused to die down, U T Khader, minister for urban development and housing, has directed the Dakshina Kannada district administration to resolve the issue through amicably. When media persons sought Mr Khader’s response over the much hyped issue, he said that he has