Karnataka

K R Pete, Mar 25: Continuing his attack on the Janata Dal (Secular), Congress president Rahul Gandhi today asked former prime minister H D Deve Gowda's party to come clean on its support to the BJP. "JD(S), they have to make it clear whether they are the BJP's B team or not," Gandhi said at a public meeting here in the Vokkaliga belt of the old Mysuru region, considered a JD(S) stronghold. "They

Feroz N Sait, the incumbent Congress MLA from Belagavi North and senior leader of Muslim minority community in the region, is now facing severe opposition from a section of Muslims. A group of community leaders who gathered under the banner 'Belagavi Muslim Forum' on Sunday took strong objection to two-time MLA's functioning and accused him of nepotism. They demanded that the party high command

Shobha Karandlaje and P C Mohan, Members of Parliament from Udupi-Chikkamagaluru and Bengaluru Central constituencies respectively, have been appointed conveners of the BJP’s election committee in Karnataka. The party held the first meeting of the committee, with 33 sub-committees that includes manifesto and charge-sheet committees. B.S. Yeddyurappa, who addressed the committee reportedly pumped

Bengaluru, Mar 25: Kannada film actor and Congress party worker Arjun Dev has filed a complaint with the Byatarayanapura police against a rowdy, whom he claims has taken a contract to kill him. He has sought protection from the police. The police, who initially took up a non-cognisable report (NCR) case, have now registered an FIR following a court order. The 35-year-old actor claimed that Kashif

Asking Pramod Madhwaraj, Minister for Fisheries, Youth Empowerment and Sports, to practically file a Rs 10 crore defamation suit against him, instead of mere threatening, Abraham T J, president of the Karnataka Anti-Graft and Environmental Forum, has said that the latter has sufficient proof for the allegations made against the former. Abraham had earlier alleged that Madhwaraj had mortgaged three

Bengaluru, Mar 25: A class 8 student of a private school in Bengaluru was brutally beaten with a police lathi by the principal, who suspected former’s hand in the annual exam question paper The Karnataka State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (KSCPCR), which has received a complaint from the NGO Childline, has initiated an inquiry into the incident. The student was allegedly beaten on

Bharatiya Janata Party leader K S Eshwarappa has claimed that Karnataka will be the 22nd state where the saffron party will register victory under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Amit Shah. Speaking to media persons on the sidelines of a Backward Classes rally in Belagavi, he said: “The 2018 Assembly election in the State is like a war for us, and the BJP is readying a strategy

Bengaluru Mar 25: State JD(S) president H D Kumaraswamy took to twitter on Saturday to take a swipe at Congress president Rahul Gandhi who is touring in the Mysuru region. Taunting Rahul (in a war of words), Kumaraswamy demanded the Congress leader to clear the air on the charges he had made against the JD(S) recently. Rahul, who visited Hassan as part of his election campaign recently, had

Mangaluru, Mar 24: Former JD(S) leader Zameer Ahmed Khan, who resigned as MLA to formally join Congress party has accused former prime minister H D Deve Gowda and former chief minister H D Kumaraswamy of fooling businessman B M Farookh. Farookh, who is chief general secretary of the JD(S) was filed by the party as its Rajya Sabha candidate twice in two years. In 2016 he was defeated as the rebel

Bengaluru, Mar 25: Hassan Deputy Commissioner Rohini Sindhuri Dasari has moved the High Court of Karnataka challenging the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) order, asking her to give representation to the Chief Secretary against her transfer order. The petition is likely to come up for hearing on Monday. The petition states that the CAT's order directing her to appeal to the Chief Secretary is