Karnataka

Bengaluru, Sept 16: State Congress president G Parameshwara on Friday said he will soon meet JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy to seek his party’s support in the upcoming Bengaluru mayoral election. Speaking to reporters after holding a meeting with the Congress leaders from Bengaluru, Parameshwara said the party wants to continue the alliance with the JD(S) in the BBMP. Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy

Bengaluru, Sept 16: JD(S) state president H D Kumaraswamy has urged the Centre to bring in necessary amendments to Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) examination rules to allow job aspirants to write exams in local languages. The Centre has recently brought in changes into the rules, diluting the clause on language proficiency. Forcing the job aspirants to write exams either in

Bengaluru, Sept 16: BJP state president B S Yeddyurappa on Friday informed the High Court of Karnataka that Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) and the Special Land Acquisition Officer (SLAO) had demanded acquiring land to form the Shivaram Karanth Layout in 2010. However, in 2014, there was correspondence between the government departments to drop the land from acquisition following

Hubballi, Sept 16: Jagadish Shettar, the Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly, has accused Water Resources Minister M B Patil of “behaving irresponsibly”. Speaking to journalists here on Friday, Shettar said Patil behaved as if Shivakumara Swami, the head of the Siddaganga Mutt, was lying on the issue of recognising Lingayat dharma as a separate religion. “Who gave Patil the right

Bengaluru, Sept 16: The state BJP is planning to hold a political convention of Muslims in the coming months ahead of the Assembly polls early next year. Speaking after inducting several leaders from the Muslim community into the BJP here on Friday, party state president B S Yeddyrappa said the plan is to invite 25,000 Muslims from across the state to the convention. He said Muslims were fed up

Bengaluru, Sept 16: Medical Education Minister Dr Sharan Prakash Patil on Friday said the separate Lingayat religion issue was “a closed chapter” as he chose to draw the curtains over the controversy that has raged on for several weeks now. “The separate religion issue - whether it has to be Lingayat or Veerashaiva-Lingayat - is a closed chapter now. Members of the community will now come together

Bengaluru, Sept 16: The `fake caste certificate' case of former IPS officer and adviser to the Home Minister Kempaiah has reached the High Court of Karnataka. After Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) closed the complaint in this regard, the complainant Dinesh Kallahalli has filed a writ petition in the high court, seeking probe by an outside agency into the case. The petition contended that in 1964, in

Bengaluru, Sept 16: The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) has demanded action against St Joseph's College for sending its students in the National Cadet Corps (NCC) uniform to attend the 'Resistance Convention' against the murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh in Bengaluru on September 12. Jayaprakash, of the BJP's student wing, made the demand in a memorandum to the vice-chancellor of

Bengaluru, Sep 15: The CID will share the details of its probe into the killing of rationalist M M Kalburgi with the Special Investigation Team probing the Gauri Lankesh case, a top official said today. Gauri was shot dead outside her house by unidentified men who came on a motorcycle on September 5. The modus operandi bore a grim resemblance to the way rationalists Govind Pansare, Narendra

Mangaluru, Sept 15: The activist of Aam Aadmi Party have threatened to launch a legal battle against Mangaluru City Corporation for failing to shift the utility lines before concretizing the roads in the city. Backed by AAP, the members MCC Civic Group, an action committee of people on civic issues in the city, staged a protest at Bendor on Thursday against civic body taking up a road development