Karnataka

Chitradurga, May 27: Koodalasangama Basava Dharma Peetha supremo Mathe Mahadevi has warned the prime minister Narendra Modi-led union government that she would not hesitate to approach Supreme Court if it failed to accord separate religion status to Lingayat-Veershaiva (Basava Tatva). Speaking to media persons, here on Sunday, the woman seer said that the struggle for a separate religion tag, was

Bengaluru, May 27: A 60-year-old man has become the talk of the town after he saved a septuagenarian from a leopard and trapped it inside his house at Bellikothanur village near Kanakapura town in Ramanagara district on Friday night. 75-year-old Dodda Thimmaiah was asleep around midnight when the leopard sneaked into the raw silk godown. When Thimmaiah panicked on seeing the feline, it pounced on

Bengaluru, May 27: Days after rumours about her death went viral on social media, centenarian environmentalist Saalumarada Thimmakka has urged the people not to forward messages without verifying them. On Saturday morning, she made her way to the Police Commissioner’s office in the city with her supporters, to lodge a complaint with the cybercrime cell against those who had “killed her” in the

Bengaluru, May 27: Former minister D K Shivakumar, who played a key role in formation of Congress-JD(S) coalition government in Karnataka by protecting his party MLAs from BJP’s poachers, is the front runner for the post of the president of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC), party sources said. Deputy Chief Minister G Parameshwara has already announced that he would step down as KPCC

Mandya, May 27: N Cheluvarayaswamy, Zameer Ahmed Khan and other former JD(S) leaders, who joined Congress ahead of Karnataka polls, have no complaints against the coalition government led by chief minister H D Kumaraswamy, but, personally they are not ready to support him. N Cheluvarayaswamy, who lost the Assembly polls after hopping from JD(S) to Congress, on Saturday said that he will not

Bengaluru, May 27: B.S. Yeddyurappa, Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly, who had apparently called for a state-wide bandh on Monday, now claimed that neither he nor his party called for a bandh, but they were just extending support to a voluntary bandh. “It’s not the BJP that had called for a bandh, but it’s only supporting a voluntary bandh call being observed by farmers over

Dharwad, May 26: The rise of fascist forces, who identify themselves as “nationalists” to fool people, are indeed a threat to the unity of pluralistic India, said noted Telugu writer and thinker Volga. Inaugurating the two-day May Sahitya Sammelana organised by Ladai Prakashana in association with various like-minded organisations such as Chittar Kala Balaga and Kavi Prakashana on Saturday, she

Bengaluru, May 26: Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy on Saturday said there are some "issues" on portfolio allocation with his party's coalition partner Congress but it is not something that will pull down the government. He also said the expansion of his Cabinet would take place once state Congress leaders get an approval from their high command. "..Portfolios have not been allocated

Madikeri, Jul 26: The Karnataka Home Department is learnt to have given clean chit to IPS officer Vartika Katiyar, who was facing the charge of failing to control communal violence at Madikeri during celebrations of Tipu Sultan Jayanti on November 10, 2015. The then Congress government had ordered a magisterial enquiry into the violence. C Shikha, the then Deputy Commissioner of Mysuru, in her

Mangaluru/Bengaluru, May 26: Even though the families have been anxiously waiting for their homecoming, many senior Congress MLAs rushed to Delhi to lobby for cabinet berths after chief minister H D Kumaraswamy won trust vote on yesterday. Congress sources said most MLAs checked out of Hilton Hotel, where they were asked to stay before trust vote. “It’s up to them to decide where they want to go