Karnataka

Bengaluru, Apr 7: Niranjan Thomas Alva, Supreme Court advocate and husband of senior Congress leader Margaret Alva, passed away here today after a brief illness, a family member said. Son of Joachim and Violet Alva, freedom fighters and the first couple in the Indian Parliament, 78-year-old Alva was also a former Director of the State Bank of India. Alva had played a key role in expanding the

Bengaluru, Apr 7: Nurse-turned-actress Jayalakshmi, who had hit the headlines over a decade ago by releasing the photos of her lip-lock with former minister and BJP leader Renukacharya, has formally joined the All India Mahila Empowerment Party (MEP). She was inducted into the MEP by the party’s supremo and gold tycoon Dr Nowhera Shaik at a ceremony at Leela Palace in the city on Friday. Speaking

Bengaluru, Apr 7: The Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) on Saturday clarified that a so called Intelligence report that is doing rounds on social media, stating that Chamundeshwari Assembly constituency not safe for Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, was a fake report. The Intelligence DIG has been asked to conduct a probe into the fake report, the CMO stated in a press release. "The Intelligence department

Bengaluru, Apr 7: The customs department has registered over 200% increase in gold seizures at the Kempegowda International Airport (KIA), with sleuths having confiscated 100 kgs of gold worth Rs 30.48 crore during the financial year 2017-18. Comparatively, the department had seized 34.5 kg of gold worth Rs 9.97 crore the previous year. This year, 34 people have been arrested in this regard

Bengaluru, Apr 7: In the past few days, unaccounted cash and material worth nearly Rs 9 crore has been seized by the police and Election Commission. On Friday, April 6, afternoon Central division police arrested a civil contractor along with his driver for carrying Rs 1.5 crore of unaccounted cash. Police believe that the money was being transported to distribute to voters ahead of the state

Mangaluru, Apr 7: The New Mangalore Port Trust has been ranked No.1 among 12 major ports of the country by independent consultants – Quality Council of India - appointed by Ministry of Shipping, for up keeping the port and its surroundings clean and green under Swachh Bharat Mission. NMPT, under the Ministry of Shipping, Govt of India has been carrying out various programmes under Swachh Bharath

Udupi, Apr 7: A case has been registered at the Kundapur police station against Rajiv Kotian, president of the Udupi district unit of the Janata Dal (United), for sending election messages on WhatsApp in alleged violation of poll code. According to the police, as per the complaint registered by Manjunath Hegde, Model Code of Conduct Nodal Officer, he had received complaints that Mr Kotian was

Mumbai, Apr 7: BJP president Amit Shah on Friday said he is a "Hindu Vaishnav," refuting Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's claim that the BJP chief is a Jain. Shah, while speaking to reporters after a rally to mark the BJP's 38th foundation day here, said, "I maintain that the Karnataka government's move to give Lingayats a separate religion status is a move to divide the Hindus." "The UPA

Bengaluru, Apr 7: Accusing the Prime Minister Narendra Modi of cheating Indians by not fulfilling promises, activist-turned-politician Jignesh Mevani has urged the people of Karnataka to disrupt the former’s rallies in Karnataka ahead of assembly polls. The video of Mevani calling upon the people to question Mr Modi and disrupt April 15 rally if he fails to give suitable answers is now going viral

Ramanagaram, Apr 6: In an apparent attempt to lure journalists ahead of Karnataka assembly polls, a leader of Janata Dal (Secular) on Friday promised sites for media persons if the party state president H D Kumaraswamy becomes chief minister. Speaking at a press meet, Rajashekhar, JD(S) taluk unit president, said that plan to allot sites to local journalists was pending for quite a while and the