Bengaluru: Less than two months after the Income Tax department’s marathon raids on the premises of Congress leader D K Shivakumar, another tycoon from Karnataka has fallen prey to the central government’s powerful agency. Non-NDA political parties often accuse Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government of using I-T department and Central Bureau of Investigation for political vendetta
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Bengaluru, Sept 21: The officials of the Income Tax Department are conducting raids on several properties belonging to former Karnataka chief minister SM Krishna's son-in-law, said reports on Thursday. According to news agency, the raids are being conducted on the premises of Krishna's son-in-law and owner of Café Coffee Day, V G Siddhartha in Bengaluru. The raids are being carried out over 20
Bengaluru, Sept 21: Congress leader and Bangalore Rural MP D K Suresh has expressed severe dissatisfaction over his party leaders’ decision to keep him away from the process of selecting the candidate for the post Bengaluru mayor. KPCC president G Parameshwara had recently convened a meeting of party leaders from Bengaluru to discuss the upcoming mayoral election. But Suresh was not invited to the
Bengaluru, Sept 21: Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Wednesday informed the High Court of Karnataka that there was no need to seek prosecution sanction against former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa as he does not hold any office at present. When the ACB registered a complaint against him in 'fake denotification case' a few months ago, he was just a Lok Sabha member. Therefore, there is no need for
Bengaluru, Sept 21: In a major breakthrough in the Gauri Lankesh murder case, the Special Investigating Team (SIT) has managed to get a facial profile of the assailant done and started a massive hunt for the man who killed Gauri. The SIT, which went through 634 digital video recorders (DVRs), developed the image based on the footage from one of the CCTV cameras on the path from her office to
Agartala, Sept 21: A TV news channel reporter died after he was seriously injured in an attack by Indigenous People's Front of Tripura (IPFT) activists while he was returning home after covering a political clash in West Tripura district on Wednesday, police said. For many years, IPFT has been fighting for a separate state for indigenous Tripuris, which the ruling Left Front has always opposed
Bengaluru, Sept 21: Rejecting the BJP's allegation of phone-tapping by the Siddaramaiah government, the ruling Congress in Karnataka today said it was a serious matter and dared the opposition party to prove it with evidence. "Whoever is making such an allegation, he, in this case (former minister R) Ashok, should prove it if he has any evidence. Yes, it is a very serious matter," Karnataka
Bengaluru, Sept 21: Excise revenue in the state fell by Rs 500 crore due to the Supreme Court’s ban on sale of liquor along highways, Excise Minister R B Timmapur said on Wednesday. As many as 789 liquor stores along national and state highways had to be relocated following the apex court’s ban on sale of liquor within 500 metres of highways. This included about 200 stores in Bengaluru urban
Bengaluru, Sept 20: The viscera report of Karnataka cadre IAS officer Anurag Tiwari, who was found dead on the road in Lucknow in May this year, has clearly ruled out the ruled out poisoning as the cause of death. With this the death of Tiwari remained a mystery. The viscera report was opened before a panel of four doctors, who had conducted the postmortem of Anurag's body. Sources said that
Mangaluru Sept 20: Karnataka Home Minister R Ramalinga Reddy on Wednesday reportedly took senior police officers to task for failing to take immediate action against Hindu Jagarana Vedike (HJV) leader Jagadish Karanth whos provocative speech sparked tension in the region last week. Delivering keynote address at a protest meet organised by HJV at Puttur on September 15, Karnanth not only tried to