Karnataka

New Delhi, Jan 1: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy on Monday said more Muslim women should join politics. His statement comes in the backdrop of Ishrat Jahan, a petitioner in the triple talaq case, joining the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Kolkata. “Ishrat Jahan is a fearless lady and has taken up a right cause, which is within the Constitution of India. Her courage

Bengaluru, Jan 1: It is achche din for 36 IPS rank officers with the state government promoting them on the New Year's Eve. While 20 promoted IPS officers have been given new postings, 11 were transferred, in what is seen as a major reshuffle in the police department. The government promoted four 1993-batch Inspector General of Police (IGP) rank officers to Additional Director General of Police

Bengaluru, Jan 1: The Karnataka BJP will come out with a charge sheet on the “failures” and “non-implementation” of the promises made by the Congress government by January 16. The youth wing of the party will then disseminate the contents of the charge sheet to each and every household in all 224 Assembly constituencies between February 15 and 22. A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting

Mangaluru, Jan 1: Days after an aspiring actress posted a video on Facebook alleging policemen in Subrahmanya of inhumanly behaving with her and her male friend belonging to another community superintendent of police of Dakshina Kannada district has initiated action against two cops for exceeding their brief. In the video, which has gone viral on social media, the aspiring actress Anusha has

Mangaluru, Jan 1: Ignoring the threats issued by saffron outfits like Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal against what they call the “exhibition of western culture and vulgarity”, the coastal city erupted in a blaze of colour and light at midnight as the world ushered in the New Year in style. Hundreds of people, including men and women, thronged the main roads in the last moments of 2017 to

Bengaluru, Jan 1: BJP charged the Congress government in Karnataka with being ‘anti-Hindu’ as it had not booked killers of BJP and RSS activists over the past couple of years, released PFI activists and ‘divided’ Lingayats, all for electoral gains. “The Siddaramaiah government is anti-Hindu. It has not brought to book killers of 20-odd BJP and RSS leaders in the past couple of years, whereas it

Pune, Jan 1: Dalit leader and newly elected MLA from Gujarat Jignesh Mevani today dared the BJP to try and change the Constitution, saying he and other like-minded people would not let it happen. Mevani was speaking at 'Elgaar Parishad' here, organised to commemorate the 'Battle of Bhima-Koregaon'. JNU student leader Umar Khalid, late Dalit research scholar Rohit Vemula's mother Radhika, Bhim Army

Kolkata, Jan 1: Ishrat Jahan, one of the petitioners in the triple talaq case, has joined the BJP, the party's state unit general secretary Sayantan Basu told on Sunday. "Ishrat Jahan joined the BJP at our Howrah office yesterday (Saturday)," Basu told PTI. Sources said Ishrat was felicitated by the Howrah BJP unit on Saturday and inducted into the party. Basu said a state-level programme to

Bengaluru, Jan 1: Tight security dampened the celebrations on New Year's eve in the city on Sunday as the police imposed strict curbs on the revellers. With the high court keeping a close eye on their preparedness to deal with the year-end frenzy, the police had stepped up monitoring. Along with 500 CCTV cameras, there were 10 drones deployed to monitor the partygoers. While the footpaths on

Bagalkot, Dec 31: In a shocking incident, as many as five members of the Bommanahalli Gram Panchayat (GP) in Sindhagi taluk of Bagalkot district have been abducted by miscreants early Sunday morning. Four of the abducted members are women. The abduction took place at Durgadevi Hill of Anegundi in Gangavathi taluk. GP president Shivamma Guranna Havalagi had taken the members on a trip after it was