Karnataka

Koppal, Feb 11: Stepping up his attack on the BJP over the issue of corruption, Rahul Gandhi today said while the Congress’s Siddaramaiah government had a scam- free rule, the BJP had broken “world records” in graft in Karnataka. The Congress president, continuing with the first leg of his poll campaign in north Karnataka for the second day, said when the BJP was in power in the state, there were

Without even a single MPhil and PhD seat allocated to the JNU's Kannada Studies Chair since its institution in 2015, its chairperson Purushothama Bilimale has now begun free language classes for university students and outsiders to ensure the Chair does not die a slow death. Bilimale, who had strived to set up a library with more than 12,000 books crowd-sourced from Karnataka apart from preparing

Abu Dhabi, Feb 11: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today officially launched the foundation stone-laying ceremony for the first Hindu temple in the capital of the UAE, home to over three million people of Indian origin. Modi witnessed the groundbreaking ceremony which was live-streamed to the Dubai Opera House where the prime minister was interacting with the Indian community. He thanked Crown Prince

“The Bharatiya Janata Party’s strategy polls is nothing but telling lies and instigating communal sentiments. But, they cannot fool people always. Kannadigas have already come to know their cheap tactics,” said Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah. He was addressing party workers at the launch of the election campaign in Hosapete on Saturday. Training his guns on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for

Udupi, Feb 11: A mighty brahminy kite, which suffered injuries after falling from a coconut tree near the Pejawar Mutt, was not rescued and given treatment. The bird also secured the blessings from the chief pontiff Sri Vishwesha Teertha Swami. The injured bird was noticed by the desciples of the Pejawar Mutt who informed the junior pontiff Sri Vishwaprasanna Teertha Swami. He immediately rushed

Udupi, Feb 11: Former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa loves and cares people, but incumbent chief minister Siddaramaiah is arrogant and corrupt, who lacks ethics, according to BJP leader and Udupi-Chikkamagaluru MP Shobha Karandlaje. Speaking to media persons here on Saturday, she alleged that Chief Minister Siddaramaiah can go to any extent for vote bank gimmicks. "He has no ethics. The Congress

Abu Dhabi, Feb 11: Prime Minister Narendra Modi held wide-ranging talks with Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan today as the two sides signed five agreements including a historic pact awarding a consortium of Indian oil companies a 10 per cent stake in offshore oil concession. Modi, who arrived here from Jordan on the second leg of his three-nation tour, was received by Mohammed

Mangaluru, Feb 10: A 25-year-old woman employee of IndiGo airline and her male colleague have accused a group of handlers at Mangaluru International Airport of assaulting them and outraging their modesty early on Saturday. The accused have filed a counter complaint accusing supporters of the woman of assaulting them. The incident occurred at around 1 a.m. when the airline staff were returning home

Bengaluru, Feb 10: When Rahul Gandhi’s aircraft lands at a small runway near Bellary to officially kick off the “do or die” Karnataka poll campaign on Saturday, Congress leaders will certainly remind him that his mother Sonia Gandhi also arrived at the same airstrip 19 years ago to fight her maiden election. Like Rahul, his mother too was a newly elected leader of the Congress which was looking

Clarifying that there were no differences between him and Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, Congress MLC C M Ibrahim on Saturday brushed aside the rumours of his plans to join Janata Dal (Secular). Speaking to media persons after meeting Siddaramaiah at his official residence Cauvery in Bengaluru, Ibrahim said that he would remain in the Congress. "Siddaramaiah and I are like brothers. There are no