Karnataka

Bengauru, Jun 1: If sources are to be believed, Congress top brass have given green signal for JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy to rule Karnataka as chief minister for full five year term. They two parties also likely to reach a pre-poll agreement ahead of 2019 Lok Sabha polls. The Congress and JD(S) are likely to announce a power-sharing deal for their coalition government in Karnataka later today

Bengaluru, Jun 1: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the murder of journactivst Gauri Lankesh, yesterday took custody of four saffron activists arrested by the Bengaluru city police for allegedly attempting to kill Mysuru-based rationalist thinker Prof K S Bhagavan. The SIT will have custody of the accused for 11 days. It will be questioning them as they are suspected to have played a

Bengaluru, May 31: Days after Kannada TV host and actor Chandan died in a car crash mishap near Davangere, his widow Meena killed her son and committed suicide yesterday. Meena was extremely disturbed after Chandan's sudden demise and hence her relatives had made her stay with them in Doddaballapur. Yesterday Meena along with her son left for her home, located closer to the relatives’ home where

Mangaluru, May 31: The police have arrested two persons on charge of spreading a fake WhatsApp message claiming that BJP activists once again attacked churches in Mangaluru after seven of the eight assembly seats in Dakshina Kannada were won by the saffron party candidates in recent polls. The arrested have been identified as Sunil Vegas (34) and Sachit P.P. (23), both hailing from Chikkamagaluru

Bengaluru, Jun 2: All the 11 candidates from the three major parties that filed their nominations for the biennial elections to Legislative Council from the Assembly are likely to get elected unopposed as there are no other contenders. The elections were necessitated due to the completion of the term of 11 MLCs. The members - five from BJP, four from Congress and two from JD(S) - will complete

Newsroom, May 31: The main accused in a recent (dis)honour killing case in Kerala’s Kottayam, which sent shockwaves across the country, had come from Dubai on emergency leave after telling his employer that his sister had gone missing. Shanu Chacko aka Syanu Chacko (26), who worked as an electrician for a maintenance company in Dubai, was arrested by Kerala police in connection with the murder of

Newsroom, May 31: A week of launching its SIM cards, Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali has now launched a new instant messaging mobile application by the name of 'Kimbho'. Kimbho is reportedly a Sanskrit word and according to Patanjai’s spokesperson SK Tijarawala, it means "How are you? or What's new?" As per reports, the new app by the Yoga guru's company aims to compete with WhatsApp as India's own

Mangaluru, May 31: In a gut-wrenching tragedy, a five-and-half-year-old girl slipped to death from the eighth floor of a residential apartment at Shaktinagar on the outskirts of the city today. The deceased has been identified as Shannel Janicia D'Souza, daughter of Wilson and Alithia D’Souza. The tragedy occurred when the girl was alone at home. According to sources, the Anitha had gone out for

New Delhi, May 31: After days of hectic negotiations over the sharing of portfolios in Karnataka, the alliance partners have decided that Finance will go to the JD(U) and the Home department to the Congress, highly placed sources in the parties said on Thursday. The leaders of the two parties have held five rounds of talks since yesterday to finalise the portfolio sharing arrangement between the

Chengannur, May 31: Kerala's ruling CPI(M)-led LDF's Saji Cheriyan today won the Chengannur Assembly bypoll by a huge margin of 20,956 votes over his nearest Congress rival, officials said. According to the Chief Electoral Office, Cheriyan polled 67,303 votes while the Congress-led UDF candidate D Vijaykumar got 46,347 votes and BJP's P S Sreedharan Pillai came third with 35,270 votes. The bypoll