Karnataka

Chikkamagaluru, May 9: Coastaldigest.com last month had carried a report on political parties wooing voters by arranging them religious excursions ahead of polls. Yesterday officials in Chikkamagaluru district found out such a case and sent the “political pilgrims” back home. M K Srirangaiah, the Deputy Commissioner of Chikkamagaluru told media persons that a political party had arranged free

At the Mangaluru City Constituency, three-time Congress MLA U T Khader will be contesting once again for the Karnataka Assembly polls (May 12, 2018). This time, the Bharatiya Janatha Party has mobilized all its resources to this so called communally sensitive constituency to ensure the victory of its candidate Santosh Kumar Rai Boliyar, who was a Zilla Panchayat member. For two decades victory has

Udupi/Karwar, May 8: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday campaigned for May 12 Karnataka assembly polls in Udupi and Uttara Kannada districts. Addressing a BJP rally at Maravanthe in Udupi district, Yogi accused the chief minister Siddaramaiah led Congress government of destroying Karnataka. Reacting to the comment of Siddaramaiah over his frequent visit to Karnataka at a time

Bengaluru, May 8: The police have arrested the wife of the newlywed Bengaluru techie Yamaka Gowri Sankara Rao, who was recently hacked to death recently in Andhra Pradesh. The Vizianagaram Police, who were investigating a murder case, have confirmed that the cold-blooded murder was planned by the victim’s wife. Rao, a native of Chittapallivalasa village in Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh was

Mangaluru, May 8: In an embarrassment for the Bhartiya Jantata Party, the aggrieved family members of a slain whistleblower, who was also a BJP activist, have taken the party supromo to the task for deliberately trying trivialize and cover up the murder case just because the accused belonged to Sangh Parivar. Vinayak Baliga, who had raised voice against corruption in a temple management committee

Vijayapura, May 8: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today accused the Congress of pursuing the policy of "divide and rule", and asserted the party would be uprooted from Karnataka in the Assembly elections. Modi lashed out at the Siddaramaiah government saying there is not a single minister who is not facing allegations of financial wrongdoing. "Congress believes in the policy of divide and rule

Bengaluru, May 8: The poll-bound Karnataka witnessed another major raid by the Income Tax department last night. The I-T sleuths raided the resort Krishna Heritage owned by the Hosapete MLA Anand Singh. Hosapete is an assembly constituency in Badami taluk of Bagalakete district. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah who is a candidate for Badami constituency had spent the night in the resort which is

Sharjah: Mangalurean Sparsha Shetty, Grade 7 student of Indian High School, Dubai has bagged the prestigious ‘Sharjah Award for Educational Excellence’ of cycle 24 for the year 2017-2018 under the category ‘Excellent Student’. Sparsha is also the proud recipient of the prestigious Sheikh Hamdan award in the year 2015. Sparsha Shetty is the daughter of Prakasha Shetty and Shushma Shetty who are

Hassan, May 8: On the face of it, many people in Hassan district take pride in the fact that one of India's prime ministers HD Deve Gowda of Janata Dal Secular (JD(S)) was from this place, but there is also unhappiness over lack of development, growing unemployment and farmers' distress. Their main grievance is that the district has not been developed enough like Shivamogga and Bengaluru despite

Kalaburgi, May 8: The May 12 Karnataka Assembly election results would teach a lesson to the BJP to mend its ways and send a larger message that people will not accept what the NDA-led party is doing on the advice of RSS, senior Congress leader M Mallikarjuna Kharge has claimed. While the Congress' campaign theme revolves around development, it's also an "ideological fight" against the RSS-BJP