Karnataka

Bengaluru, Aug 12: BJP national president Amit Shah’s three-day visit to the state from Saturday will mark the beginning of drawing an ‘electoral master plan’ for poll-bound Karnataka. The frequency of Shah’s visit will increase in the coming months. The plan is that Shah will visit most of the 224 Assembly constituencies in the state in phases to assess the grassroot political scene, poll

New Delhi, Aug 12: The Congress high command is worried over the possible “fallout” of caste politics overshadowing developmental agenda of the Siddaramaiah government as the state Assembly elections are a few months away. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s perceived support for separate religion tag to the Lingayat community and his keeness to release a caste census report have not gone down well with

Bengaluru, Aug 12: Popular Kannada actor ‘Real Star’ Upendra, who is all set to test political waters this time in real life, on Friday said his move is a humble effort to empower people in a democracy. In an audio circulated to media houses and posted on social media, Upendra raises questions about the attitude of elected representatives, whom he refers to as “people’s servants” and living on the

Mangaluru, Aug 11: Hundreds of students and parents of Sri Rama high school in Kalladka and Sri Devi school at Punacha on Friday staged a protest against state government, holding meal plates symbolically suggesting that they were being deprived of meals, after state government withdrew financial grant, given by the Kollur Mookambika Temple in Udupi District, through adoption scheme. This is seen

Mangaluru, Aug 11: A 36-year-old man, said to be a saffron activist, was arrested by the Mangaluru police for posting defamatory comments against Food and Civil Supplies Minister U.T. Khader on social media platform. The accused is Divyaprasad a native of Hosamane, Daregudde in Moodbidri, who is currently a resident of Bengaluru. He was booked under Section 67 of the Information Technology Act

Bengaluru, Aug 11: Karnataka IT Minister Priyank Kharge today said the state government has decided to hold a mega event, Bengaluru Technology Summit, instead of multiple events to strengthen Brand Bengaluru globally. "Instead of having multiple events, we have decided to hold one mega event, Bengaluru Technology Summit. We want to bring all the events under one umbrella, to strengthen Brand

Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 11: The Kerala government would formulate a common stand on granting menstrual leave to its women employees after considering various aspects of the issue, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan told the state assembly today. Replying to a calling attention by K S Sabarinathan (Congress) seeking grant of period leave, Vijayan said there was a section of people in the society who

Mangaluru, Aug 11: A youth from Dakshina Kannada district, who had to undergo severe hardship after joining a new in Qatar, finally returned home with the help of NRI social activists from Gulf country. Abdul Hameed (35), hailing from Killur village in Belthangady of the coastal district was working as a light vehicle driver in Qatar for several years. Three months ago, he changed his company when

Bengaluru, Aug 11: Several Congress leaders are said to be lobbying for the party ticket to contest the upcoming by-election to the Karnataka Legislative Council. Prominent among the ticket aspirants are former minister Rani Satish, former legislator Nazeer Ahmed, G C Chandrashekar, Ramachandrappa, M S Basavaraju and Vinay Karthik. The bypoll has been necessitated due to the death of BJP MLC

Mysuru, Aug 11: The Bharatiya Janata Party is controlling a section of the media and playing negative politics with the help of those media, according to Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee working president Dinesh Gundu Rao. Addressing the party workers at the district committee meeting, he said, a large number of people are in favour of the Congress party according to a survey and thus, the BJP