Karnataka

Bengaluru/Mangaluru, Jun 9: The new state government has transferred five IPS officers including Mangaluru city police commissioner Vipul Kumar. Mr Kumar, a 1999-batch IPS officer, had taken charge in Mangaluru on April 18 this year. Even before completing two months in the city, he was on Friday transferred as IGP and Director, Karnataka Police Academy, Mysuru. Mr. Kumar, 49, a native of

Bengaluru, Jun 9: Excise Commissioner Munish Moudgil on Friday attracted the ire of Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy for not following the government orders. It is learnt that Kumaraswamy is upset with the IAS officer for not reversing transfers of government employees, who were on election duty. According to sources, several women officials met Kumaraswamy and complained that though the Assembly

Bengaluru, Jun 9: Disgruntlement in the Congress went a notch up on Friday as at least 20 estranged legislators who were not picked to become ministers, ganged up against the party’s leadership in an almost rebellious fashion, even as top leaders made all efforts to pacify them. Chief among them is former minister M B Patil, who declared as if to send out a strong message, that he was not alone.

Bengaluru, Jun 8: Two days after Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy expanded his cabinet by inducting 25 ministers, portfolios have been allocated. The sharing of portfolios was a sticky issue due to which cabinet expansion was delayed by two weeks. Mr Kumaraswamy has kept 11 portfolios for himself --- including Finance which had been a bone of contention between coalition partners JD(S) and

Bengaluru, Jun 8: With his government facing birth pangs of coalition politics, Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy on Friday stepped in to check the disquiet among newly elected Congress lawmakers who were left out during the Cabinet expansion, but they remained defiant. Kumaraswamy, who was sworn in as the chief minister on May 23 and proved his majority in the Assembly on May 25, has not

Bengaluru, June 8: Dubbing the current political situation in Karnataka as 'ludicrous,' Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Ananth Kumar said the new JDS-Congress coalition government was direction less and only temporary. Speaking to reporters here, he said the newgovernment was direction less with the Chief Minister naming 25 ministers without any portfolios. "Even though the people had

Bengaluru, Jun 8: The same gun was used to kill journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh and rationalist M M Kalburgi in Karnataka, the state forensic science laboratory has confirmed in a report, sources in the SIT said. The forensic report submitted to the Special Investigation Team probing the killing of Lankesh is part of the first charge sheet filed recently by the SIT naming KT Naveen Kumar as an

Bengaluru, Jun 8: Senior Congress leader D K Shivakumar on Friday pacified his fellow party members that missed out on a cabinet berth, saying that even he was excluded from the same in previous governments. "I myself also was kept off the government (cabinet) earlier in Dharam Singh's government. I had patience and belief in the high command, in Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. Ultimately, they

Bengaluru, Jun 8: The political activities in the Congress circle by disgruntled leaders took ugly turn when a youth, demanding Minister post to Legislator N A Haris, threatened to commit suicide by hanging himself with a rope in front of KPCC office in the city on Friday. The state had been witnessing protests from various parts of the state over the non-inclusion of leaders in various districts

Bengaluru, Jun 8: Police have arrested Kannada Film actor Duniya Vijaya, who was wanted in connection with assault and obstructing the police from discharging their duty in connection with death of two stunt actors who died while performing a stunt scene for film 'Masti Gudi' at a lake in the city. Chennammanakere Achukattu Police arrested Duniya Vijaya from a resort on the border of Tamil Nadu