Karnataka

Bengaluru, Aug 18: Even as several Congress leaders are lobbying for the party ticket to contest the upcoming by-election to the Karnataka Legislative Council, chief minister Siddaramaiah has reportedly got high command’s approval to field former union minister CM Ibrahim. Ibrahim has been Siddaramaiah's confidant since his JD(S) days. In the past few months, he vented his ire a couple of times on

Bengaluru, Aug 18: The sex scandal allegedly involving senior Congress MLA and former minister H Y Meti took a new twist on Thursday with the victim seeking police protection, expressing threat to her life from the politician's family and his supporters. Vijayalakshmi Saroor of Bagalkot district submitted a three-page petition to DG&IGP Rupak Kumar Dutta and Additional Chief Secretary (Home)

Bengaluru, Aug 18: Chief minister Siddaramaiah is learnt to have got his entire wish list approved by the Congress high command this time. If sources are to be believed the CM has got the green signal to fill the three vacancies in the cabinet and give the home portfolio to forest minister B Ramanath Rai The three vacancies will be filled next week with K Shadakshari, a Lingayat (MLA from Tiptur)

Udupi, Aug 17: Members of the district unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) staged a dharna in front of the Deputy Commissioner’s Office here on Thursday demanding a ban on Popular Front of India (PFI) and Karnataka Forum for Dignity (KFD). Addressing the protesters, Mattar Ratnakar Hegde, president of the district unit of the BJP, said that the attacks on the workers of the BJP and Sangh Parivar

Riyadh, Aug 17: A group of around 20 Indian expatriate workers, who were suddenly sacked by the Al Rasheed Company located at Exit 7, Riyadh, have been stranded in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for past four months. After losing their jobs, the penniless Indian expats, including at least two Mangalureans, have been spending their days and nights in a makeshift shed braving the extreme hot weather

Shivamogga, Aug 17: Hartal Halappa, former Food and Civil Supplies Minister of Karnataka and BJP leader, has been exonerated of rape charges by the Shivamogga court. Halappa was accused of allegedly raping the wife of his financier-friend friend when he stayed in their residence on November 29, 2009. Then chief minister BS Yeddyurappa led BJP government was in severe embarrassment when a Kannada

Bengaluru, Aug 17: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah today launched his personal Twitter handle, calling it an attempt to connect with people not as CM, but as a "rooted and proud" Kannadiga. "Today, I am launching this new Twitter account to stay personally connected with all of you, to share views, opinions & learn from each other," Siddaramaiah said in a tweet on his new Twitter handle '

Mysuru, Aug 17: Renowned Kannada poet and thinker Prof. K.S. Nissar Ahmed will inaugurate this year’s Mysuru Dasara celebrations atop Chamundi Hills on September 21. This was announced by Minister for Public Works H.C. Mahadevappa on Thursday, after he received the first batch of Dasara elephants at the Mysuru Palace premises. He said the Nityothsava fame poet had been contacted and informed of

Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 17: Kerala Assembly Speaker P Sreeramakrishnan today warned P C George, MLA, that he would take whatever action was possible against the legislator if he continued to make "insensitive" remarks against the actress Bhavana who was abducted and sexually assaulted in a car in Kochi in February this year. George, while talking to television channels, had allegedly made some

Bengaluru, Aug 17: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday said that he held a discussion with Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on the expansion of his Cabinet. However, he refused to divulge the details of the discussion. Siddaramaiah, who came to the national capital along with Rahul Gandhi in the same flight from Bengaluru, told reporters that he submitted a proposal on Cabinet expansion