Karnataka

New Delhi, Jun 7: Senior journalist Barkha Dutt, who was associated with NDTV for over two decades, today revealed that she had been receiving threats from certain quarters in the prime minister Narendra Modi-led union government to prevent her from working in television news. The development comes days after another journalist Ravish Kumar, who is still associated with NDTV, accused the ruling

Udupi, Jun 7: Former Naxal leader Nilaguli Padmanabh, who had joined mainstream nearly two years ago, was arrested by the district police here today. The police arrested him when he came to a local court in connection with a case. "There were two non-bailable warrants and two long pending cases against him and he has been arrested under the same," SP Lakshman Nimbargi said. Padmanabh was one of

Bengaluru, Jun 7: Supporters of senior Congress member Roshan Baig demanded a ministerial berth for him, a day after the state's new cabinet was sworn in. In this regard, Baig's supporters staged a protest here on Thursday, and said a capable minority minister is needed in the current Karnataka cabinet. "He (Roshan Baig) has done things nobody else has done before. We want a leader for the

Mangaluru/Benglauru, Jun 7: The coastal districts of Karnataka, that are recovering from May 30 deluge, likely to face heavy rainfalls till June 10, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD). Rains battered most parts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts early on Thursday morning. The next week is expected to see heavy rain across Karnataka as weather systems line up that could

Bengaluru, Jun 7: B R Bhaskar Prasad, a Dalit leader of Aam Aadmi Party, was arrested by police yesterday on charge of instigating saffron chauvinists to attack Dinesh Amin Mattu, a senior journalist and activist. Prasad, a resident of Nelamangala, had befriended Mattu when the latter was the media adviser to the then chief minister Siddaramaiah. However, personal differences had separated them

New Delhi, Jun 7: Even as former President Pranab Mukherjee headed to Nagpur to attend an RSS event on Thursday, his daughter Sharmistha Mukherjee has expressed fear that the “dirty tricks department” of Bharatiya Janata Party may mislead people by spreading fake statements of the veteran leader on social media. Sharmistha, who is also a prominent Congress leader in Delhi, tweeted that the BJP had

Yadgir, Jun 7: Three members of a family, including a three-year-old boy, died on the same day in Kodala village in Wadagera taluk of Yadgir district on Wednesday. The victims were identified as Pradeep (3), his aunt Bhagyamma (20), and her mother Shantamma (45). According to sources, Pradeep was suffering from vomiting and diarrhoea. He died on the way to Yadgir after preliminary treatment at the

Bengaluru , Jun 7: Not a single leader associated with the separate Lingayat religion movement has found a place in the newly-formed Cabinet, a clear indication that both Congress and JD(S) steered clear from the controversy. The previous Siddaramaiah-led government’s decision to accord ‘religious minority’ status to Lingayat faith is widely believed to have contributed to the Congress’ defeat in

Bengaluru, Jun 7: Vokkaligas have got the major share of ministerial berths in the Cabinet even as a number of districts have gone unrepresented. Of the 25 ministers inducted into the Cabinet, nine are from the Vokkaliga community, followed by Lingayats four and Dalits and minorities getting three representations each. While the Congress has tried to do a balancing act when it comes to caste

Bengaluru, Jun 7: The notoriety of Bengaluru’s traffic is not even sparing the high and mighty. After West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Legislative Assembly Speaker K R Ramesh Kumar is the latest to lash out at the H D Kumaraswamy administration for “bad” traffic management. Thanks to the chaotic traffic situation, Kumar, despite being a presiding officer, couldn’t make it to the