Karnataka

Bengaluru, Apr 22: All India Congress Committee spokesperson Kushboo Sundar has come down heavily on the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not being able to punish those involved in heinous crimes in BJP-ruled States. Addressing presspersons here, she said the nation had witnessed the gruesome rape and murder of an eight-year-old in Jammu and Kashmir temple, an 11-year-old in Surat, and an

Kasaragod, Apr 22: The police in Kerala have arrested five youngsters in connection with the undeclared hartal of April 16 in the state over the rape and murder of an 8-year-old girl in a temple at Kathua in Jammu and Kashmir. The arrested have been identified as Amarnath (20), from Urukunnu in Kollam, Sudheesh (22), Akhil (23), Gokul Shekhar (21), and Cyril from Thiruvananthapuram. Interestingly

Koppal, Apr 22: The presence of mind of a driver helped 32 persons travelling in a private bus miraculously escape after the vehicle caught fire and was gutted completely at Gunnal village in Yelburga taluk of Koppal district on Saturday. The driver of the Vijayapura-bound bus noticed the fire, suspected to have caused by short circuit of the battery, and immediately stopped the bus on National

Mangaluru April 22: Tulu theatre stalwarts and popular cine artists Devdas Kapikad and Naveen D Padil have been conferred with the Rotary Annual State Level prestigious “Vandana Award” at a function held on Saturday at Hotel Kudla in the city. The award is conferred on them in recognition of their exemplary achievement and in appreciation of their invaluable contributions, in the field of Tulu

Bengaluru, Apr 22: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday hit out at BJP General Secretary P Murlidhar Rao for his Hindi tweet about his plans to contest the May 12 assembly polls from two constituencies, by asking him to tweet in Kannada or English. Rao, who is in-charge of Karnataka, asked whether" Siddaramaiah was scared about winning Chamundeshwari seat in" Mysuru. "@Siddaramaiah ji

Apr 22: Aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), Government of India, on Thursday came out with a set of safety regulations for air charter operators and warned them and their pilots of penal action if these guidelines were not adhered to while flying a VIP/SPG protectees for poll campaigns in Karnataka. The set of guidelines also directs the operators and flight crew to

Bengaluru, Apr 22: Director General of Income Tax, Investigation, Karnataka and Goa, has stepped up its surveillance and monitoring activities as part of enhanced alertness in the wake of Assembly elections in Karnataka on May 12. The I-T leuths believe that currency notes seem to be flowing in poll bound Karnataka. So far, the sleuths have seized Rs 4.13 crore cash and 4.52 kg gold jewels valued

Bengaluru, Apr 21: Ending suspense over contesting from a second constituency, chief minister Siddaramaiah would file his nomination from Badami in north Karnataka on April 24 for the May 12 assembly polls. Siddaramaiah has been maintaining that his desire was to contest from Chamundeshwari in Mysuru but he was under pressure from local party leaders to be in the fray from Badami, as it would

Udupi: Lakshmivara Tirtha Swami, the chief pontiff of Shiroor Mutt on Saturday, April 21, submitted his nomination papers as an Independent candidate from Udupi Assembly constituency. He is the first among the seers of the Ashta mutts — the eight mutts of Udupi which propagate the Dwaita philosophy — to enter the electoral fray. The seer was visibly in pain while offering prayers at the Sri

Bengaluru, Apr 21: Kannada actress Pooja Gandhi, who had quit Janata Dal-Secular in 2012, today rejoined the regional party expressing hope that H D Kumaraswamy would become the chief minister after the May 12 Karnataka assembly polls. Pooja had quit the JD(S) to join the former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa’s Karnataka Janata Paksha. She had, however, quit KJP too, to join Badavara Shramikara