Karnataka

Bhatkal, May 22: The Uttara Kannada police have arrested thirteen persons for waylaying a truck and stealing over two dozen cows from it after attacking the legal transporters at Murdeshwara in Bhatkal taluk. The arrested have been identified as Janardhan, Nagaraj Nayak, Venkatesh, Kumar, Rama, Nagaraj Nayyar, Venkatesh, Bhaskar, Mahesh, Manjunath, Annappa, Shabhareesh, and Girish. All the accused

Dubai, May 22: The UAE government’s plan to issue long-term residency visas for up to 10 years to international investors and "exceptional talents" including professionals and students is likely to be a boon for hundreds of thousands of well-educated Indian expiates working in fields such as medicine, science and research, among others. The Cabinet, chaired by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Bengaluru, May 22: Days after voter verifiable paper audit trail (VVPAT) machines were found from a house in Vijaypur district of Karnataka, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state chief B.S. Yeddyurappa has written a letter to the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) alleging 'grave irregularities' in the recently concluded Karnataka assembly elections. In the letter, Yeddyurappa wrote, "I am of a firm

Bengaluru, May 22: The lobbying for ministerial berths in Karnataka has intensified after chief minister designate H D Kumaraswamy called on Congress stalwarts Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi to discuss the modalities of coalition government. However, the leaders of both Congress and JD(S) have urged their MLAs lobbying for ministership to be ready for some sacrifices in the larger interest of the

Bantwal, Nov 22: Police have arrested four persons in connection with the clash between BJP and Congress workers at Kelinja in Vitla of Bantwal taluk last Saturday after B S Yeddyurappa stepped down as chief minister. All four arrested are said to be supporters of Congress. However, the police have also arrested two more persons for giving communal tinge to the clash between political enthusiasts

Bengaluru, May 22: Chief minister-designate H D Kumaraswamy has requested his party workers and supporters not to put up flexes, banners and cut-outs, and also refrain from bursting crackers during his swearing-in ceremony on Wednesday. “I request you not to put up banners, cut-outs and buntings, and burst crackers, which is harmful to the environment. It is my wish that the party workers do not

New Delhi, May 22: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a plea by right wing leader from Karnataka Pramod Mutalik to enter Goa for participating in some event on June 1. A vacation bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar and Navin Sinha asked his counsel Vishnu Shankar Jain to amend his petition pending since 2016. “Is there any fresh prohibitory order against you? Where is that order,” the

Bengaluru, May 22: Congress will get the post of speaker and a deputy chief minister in Karnataka, the first names that party president Rahul Gandhi will decide in the coming hours ahead of HD Kumaraswamy’s swearing-in as chief minister of the Congress-JD(S) coalition government on Wednesday. The two parties have moved a step ahead in resolving differences over power-sharing, with chief minister

Hyderabad, May 21: A coalition government may not be in the interest of citizens, retired Supreme Court Judge N Santosh Hegde has said, regretting the fact that voters in Karnataka had failed to elect a single party to rule the state. The former Karnataka Lokayukta said he found nothing wrong in the Congress backing the JD(S) to form the government to keep the BJP out of power. "That's the

Bengaluru, May 21: As the stage is set for JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy to become the next chief minister of Karnataka, KPCC president G Parameshwara on Monday said difficult times were ahead, but there was a need to stop the BJP from coming to power in the southern state. He said he understood the sentiments of many who were averse to a tie-up between the Congress and JD(S). However, the need to