Karnataka

Bengaluru, Mar 10: Continuing his triage against chief minister Siddaramaiah, Janata Dal (Secular) leader H D Kumaraswamy on Saturday charged that the Karnataka government had become bankrupt. "Chief Minister Siddaramaiah is the master craftsman in finalising deals with senior officers. He has occupied the top position only to loot public money. A media house has established with evidences that

Udupi, Mar 10: Days after Bharatiya Janata Party supremo Amit Shah held a secret meeting with a influential seers of coastal Karnataka seeking their support in the upcoming state assembly elections, a prominent seer from Udupi has expressed his willingness to take a political plunge from the saffron party. Laxmivara Tirtha Swami, the chief pontiff of Shiroor Mutt, one of the Ashta Mutts of Udupi

Bengaluru, Mar 10: Naveen Kumar KT alias Hotte Manja, a hardline Hindutva activist and gunrunner, who was arrested last month in connection with the murder of journactivist Gauri Lankesh, has now been booked for allegedly plotting to assassinate progressive writer and rationalist Prof. K S Bhagavan. The police on Friday added Section 307 (attempt to murder) and Section 120(b) (criminal conspiracy)

Akhila alias Hadiya, whose marriage with Shafin Jahan was upheld and declared legal by the Supreme Court of India two days ago returned to Kerala along with her husband on Friday. She has submitted a leave application at the homeopathy college in Salem, Tamil Nadu, where she is studying. On Saturday Hadiya and her husband Sheffin Jahan visited Popular Front of India chairman E Aboobacker at

Congress MLA BA Mohiuddin Bava's brother BM Farooq, who is contesting the Rajya Sabha elections on a JD(S) ticket this month, is the richest among the candidates who have filed their nominations so far. Mangaluru-origin Farooq has total assets worth a whopping Rs 778 crores, including those owned by his wife. However, Farooq says that he’s not the 'money bag' of JD(S). "The 'money bag' tag has

Mumbai Mar 10: Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi has openly warned Karnataka Congress leaders against being overconfident ahead of looming Assembly polls. "Karnataka is a very important state for us...we have to do our best to return to power," she said at the India Today conclave in Mumbai, victory will not be very easy. "Our people there are quite confident, however, it is better not to be

Bantwal: In what is seen as a challenge for Congress leader and forest minister B Ramanath Rai, the Social Democratic Party of India has decided to field a candidate in the upcoming Karnataka assembly poll from Bantwal constituency where BJP is leaving no stone unturned to register a victory. At a party worker’s meet held at Al Khazana Community Hall here on Friday, March 9, SDPI state president

Bengaluru Mar 9: Lakshmi, the 23-year-old daughter of K Shivamurthy Naik, the Congress MLA from Mayakonda (Davangere district), who was "missing" since March 7, appeared before the Yelahanka New Town police on Friday, along with her husband. The police said that Lakshmi gave a statement saying that she had married Sundar Gowda of her own free will. Gowda is the producer of Kannada film "Mastigudi

Bengaluru, Mar 9: Five days Special Investigation Team (SIT) custody has been granted to suspected accused K T Naveen Kumar by the Bengaluru Magistrate Court on Friday in connection with the murder of journalist and activist Gauri Lankesh. On March 3, the Karnataka Police has taken Naveen Kumar into police custody for questioning in connection with the case. According to media reports, Naveen was

To mark International Women’s Day, budget carrier Air India Express on Thursday operated eight international all-women crew flights including one from Mangaluru to Dubai. Apart from Mangaluru, the all women-crew flights took off from Kochi, Kozhikode, Thiruvananthapuram, Mumbai, Chennai and Delhi. The airline also felicitated all its women/girl passengers traveling on the women’s day with sweets