Karnataka

Udupi, Sept 1: The general body meeting of the Udupi City Municipal Council (CMC) ended in just 25 minutes after the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) councillors created ruckus in the House. The BJP councillors rushed to the well of the House and demanded that the issue of dismantling of shamiana by CMC personnel at the BJP’s protest venue at the Clock Tower on August 30, be discussed first

Bengaluru, Sept 1: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday said that as many as 100 urban local bodies will achieve the ‘open defecation free’ (ODF) status by the end of this year. Siddaramaiah, who launched phase three of the Rs 2,847-crore Nagarottana project in Bengaluru on Thursday, said that at present, of the 277 ULBs, 19 of them had attained this status. Representatives of these ULBs were

New Delhi, Sept 1: When rape accused Dera chief Ram Rahim Singh defended himself in a CBI court saying he is 'impotent' and not capable of rape, the presiding judge reportedly shot back asking, “how your daughters were born?” Ram Rahim had reportedly presented many 'false facts' in the court in his defence. However, it overruled them and convicted him of rape on August 25. Dera chief had claimed

Bengaluru, Sept 1: AICC general secretary in charge of Karnataka K C Venugopal on Thursday is learnt to have pulled up the state party leaders for failing to set up booth-level committees and appoint booth agents across all Assembly constituencies in the state. Venugopal, who held revenue division-wise meetings at the KPCC office along with state unit president G Parameshara, threatened the newly

Bengaluru, Sept 1: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah is all set to expand his council of ministers by filling three vacancies on Friday. The swearing-in ceremony is scheduled to be held intheRaj Bhavan at 5 pm. In a last-minutechange, Siddaramaiah is learnt to have decided to induct Geetha Mahadeva Prasad, the wife of the late minister H S Mahadeva Prasad into the council of ministers, instead of Tiptur

Davangere, Sept 1: A pedestrian was killed on the spot when he was knocked down by an SUV in which Shikaripur MLA B Y Raghavendra was travelling. The deceased has been identified as Suresh (24), a resident of Madapura village. The accident occurred near Madapura Cross in Honnali taluk when the MLA was heading towards Shikaripur on Thursday night. Hundreds of people gathered at the spot following

Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 31: Citing a robbery on an inter-state bus in Karnataka this morning, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan today asked the neighbouring state to ensure the safety of passengers. Vijayan's statement came in thewake of robbery of passengers on board a Kerala State Transport Corporation bus bound for Bengaluru from Kozhikode by a gang at Channapatti Karnataka in the early

Lucknow, Aug 31: A little boy is slapped mercilessly and repeatedly, without pause, by his teacher in a video from a classroom in Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow, allegedly for not responding to the attendance call. The Class 3 student was struck 40 times by the enraged teacher, according to his family and classmates. "She is not a teacher but a monster," says a comment on the widely shared video leaked

New Delhi, Aug 31: The Union government has sought an urgent hearing in the Supreme Court on a batch of over 40 petitions including one by Karnataka Energy Minister D K Shivakumar as the trial in those corruption cases has remained stayed. All those petitions raised a question of law, that is, if the High Courts can stay proceedings in cases initiated under the Prevention of Corruption Act despite

Belagavi, Aug 31: Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) Women Wing President Laxmi Hebbalkar got embroiled in a controversy regarding the Karnataka-Maharashtra boundary dispute with she allegedly making a statement that she would be the first to raise ‘Jai Maharashtra’ cry with Maharashtra flag in her hand if the Supreme Court gives its verdict for including Belagavi in Maharashtra