Karnataka

Bengaluru, May 17: The Bharatiya Janata Party's B.S. Yeddyurappa on Thursday for the third time will be sworn-in as the Chief Minister of Karnataka at the Raj Bhavan. Yeddyurappa will take oath as the 23rd chief minister of Karnataka after the Supreme Court early today morning decided not to put a stay on the swearing-in while conducting a post-midnight hearing, wherein Congress and JD(S) pleaded

Bengaluru, May 17: The number of doctors in Karnataka legislative assembly has reduced from 11 to 10 after 2018 polls. In fact over two dozen doctors had contested the May 12 Assembly elections. However, only 10 among them have registered victory. Among the 10 doctors six MLAs are from the Congress, three from BJP, and one from JD(S). The State unit of Indian Medical Association (IMA) had

Bengaluru, May 17: The Bharatiya Janata Party is reportedly trying to poach Vijayanagar Congress MLA Anand Singh as part of operation Kamala. Anand Singh, who was former BJP MLA, had quit the party earlier this year and secured ticket from Congress. He defeated BJP candidate in May 12 assembly polls and entered the assembly again. If the reports are to be believed Singh has gone to Bengaluru to

Bengaluru, May 17: As the term of the longest-serving Chief Minister of Karnataka in three decades, Siddaramaiah, draws to a close, Karnataka's next Chief Minister will once again be B S Yeddyurappa, the BJP's candidate and Lingayat leader from Shimoga district. However, it is not clear how long Yeddyurappa's term might last since the BJP has not publicly said how they will meet the 8-seat gap

Bengaluru, May 16: The Congress tonight moved the Supreme Court against Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Vala's decision to invite BJP leader B S Yeddyurappa to form the government in the state and sought an immediate hearing. Senior Congress leader Abhishek Singhvi said the party has sought a hearing on its petition challenging the Governor's decision tonight itself. "We have filed a petition before

Mangaluru, May 16: Thee children of a family drowned while swimming in a water tank of a temple in Nagueshi village of Ponda taluk in South Goa late on Thursday, the police said. The deceased were identified by the Ponda police as Aditi Bhat, 12, Bhuvaneshvar Bhat, 8, and Shravan Hola, 7, all from Mangaluru. They were visiting Goa with their parents and were on a pilgrimage in Ponda that is known

Mangaluru, May 16: Hawwa Aboobakar, mother of Sharafuddin Soofi, a Mangalurean orator, died of heart attack in a moving car on the outskirts of the city today. She was 77. The end came when she was travelling from her youngest daughter’s house near Thokkottu to her eldest son’s house in Gurupura Kaikamaba. She was suffering from multiple ailments and was bedridden for last two years. Born and

New Delhi, May 16: The MLAs and MPs of Congress and Janata Dal (Secular) (JD-S) is likely to sit on a 'dharna' outside Raj Bhawan from tomorrow if they are not invited by Governor Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala to prove their majority to form government in Karnataka. This statement comes hours after reports came in that 12 Congress MLAs were absent in the legislative meeting held earlier today at

Bengaluru, May 16: As both the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress- JD(S) alliance are claiming to form government in Karnataka, senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Wednesday said that the party has complete faith in Governor Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala to abide by the Constitution. "At this juncture, we have complete faith in the Governor that he will go by the Constitution and not

Bengaluru, May 16: Outgoing Chief Minister Siddaramaiah turned "emotional" at a meeting of the party's new legislators on Wednesday while speaking on Congress' defeat in the assembly polls even as senior leaders blamed him for the result, party sources said. The 69-year-old leader received flak from several senior party MLAs, who held him responsible for the Congress' performance, citing his