Karnataka

Bengaluru, Apr 28: In a setback for the Sangh Parivar, three video advertisements of the BJP against the ruling Congress in poll-bound Karnataka were banned by the Media Certification and Monitoring Committee (MCMC) from being aired for spreading false information and lies. The committee restrained the media on Friday from airing or sharing the advertisements on the ground that they were violative

Belagavi, Apr 28: Income Tax officials raided the house and offices of Nasir Bagwan, JD(S) candidate from Khanapur in Belagavi on Saturday. Mr Bagwan, who has declared assets of over Rs. 191 crore, is the richest candidate in the district. The businessman from Khanapur has investments in real estate in Bengaluru, Mysore and Belagavi. According to reports, a 11-member I-T team conducted searches at

Bengaluru, Apr 28: Police have seized 42kg of gold ornaments worth about Rs 12.5 crore from a van at an election checkpost at Balepura near Devanahalli on the outskirts of the city. Bheemashankar S Guled, superintendent of police, Bengaluru Rural district, said the gold was being transported in an SUV by four persons, including a gunman. Officers on duty at the checkpost flagged down the SUV

Bengaluru, Apr 28: Former chief minister and BJP state president B S Yeddyurappa is sure that mining baron B Janardhan Reddy will help the party win 10 to 15 additional seats in Ballari and surrounding areas. Replying to the queries of media persons in Hassan, Yeddyurappa said BJP president Amit Shah had advised party leaders to seek help of anyone, including their opponents, if it is beneficial

Mangaluru: As many as 58 candidates remained in the fray for the May 12 Karnataka Legislative Assembly elections in the eight constituencies of the coastal district of Dakshina Kannada. District Returning Officer and Deputy Commissioner Sasikanth Senthil told reporters that eight candidates withdrew their candidature on Friday, the last date for the withdrawal of nomination papers, while many

Udupi, Apr 28: As many as 34 candidates are in the fray in five constituencies of Udupi after five candidates withdrew their nomination papers on Friday and three other nomination papers were rejected. The candidates who have withdrawn their candidature are Rakesh Mallya and Vikas Hedge in Kundapur, Ramesh Marakala and Shiroor Mutt seer Sri Lakshmivara Theertha Swamy in Udupi and Mohammed Sharief

Karnataka Home Minister" Ramalinga Reddy has claimed that phone calls of Congress leaders were being tapped to get details of their strategies for the May 12 assembly polls and blamed BJP president Amit Shah for it. " Reddy claimed it has been on for the past three months. " ... for the past fortnight, the tapping is happening for"almost 18 hours a day. There are teams from Gujarat, Jaipur"and

The Income Tax Department has seized Rs 20 crore cash from various parts of the country, including more than Rs 10 crore in election-bound Karnataka, over the last few days as part of its crackdown on currency hoarders, officials said today. The ITD said unaccounted cash of Rs 4.01 crore and unaccounted 6.5 kg jewellery were seized during searches conducted against three contractors in Bengaluru

Bengaluru, Apr 28: The Bharatiya Janata Party high command this time did not hesitate to field some of its tainted leaders including mining barons for the upcoming May 12 Karnataka assembly polls. However, if sources are to be believed, the BJP supremo Amit Shah has reportedly advised the party’s state leaders to use Reddy brothers and their associates who had ruled the roost during BJP rule in

It was neither a malapropism nor a Freudian slip-up. The Times of India’s headline screaming that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping will “mate” six times in 24 hours was mere a photoshopped version of a mischievous netizen – either an Indian or a Chinese citizen! Millions of people on Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and other social media platforms on Friday (April