Karnataka

Mangaluru, Aug 6: Karnataka State Minorities Commission has urged the Mangaluru city and Dakshina Kannada district police to check communal flare ups being triggered through social media. "People are more active in social media and some news leads to flare ups. I told police officials to have some people to keep watching on this kind of social media messages. Actions should be taken immediately to

Bengaluru, Aug 6: The nearly 75-hour income-tax raids on premises owned by Karnataka's minister D K Shivakumar and his associates ended on Saturday morning. While taxmen estimate the seizure to be over Rs 300 crore, a visibly-miffed Kumar said, "I haven't violated the law. I'll answer all queries with documents." Sources in the I-T department said Shivakumar will be caught in tax rules and

Bengaluru, Aug 6: Prime Minister Narendra Modi led government’s taxmen have failed to dampen the hospitality spirit of Congress stalwart and Karnataka Energy Minister D K Shivakumar in spite of 72-long unprecedented raid. On Saturday Shivakumar resumed charge of Gujarat Congress MLAs lodged in a resort outside Bengaluru to prevent poaching by the BJP, endorsing his loyalty to his party. Clad in a

Mangaluru, Aug 5: Sangh Parivar activists have threatened to launch a hunger strike in the city and taluk headquarters in Dakshina Kannada district on August 8 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. to press the government to arrest those behind the murder of RSS activist Sharath Madiwala in B.C. Road a month ago. Activists of the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Vishwa Hindu Parishat, the Bajrang Dal, the Hindu

Kalaburgi, Aug 5: Close on the heels of the unnatural death of a Class 10 girl in the hostel room of Alva’s High School in Moodbidri, a 16-year-old girl studying at Morarji Desai Residential School on the outskirts of Jewargi town in Kalaburagi district, ended her life by hanging from a double-stack metal bed in her hostel room in the early hours of Saturday. She has been identified as Priyanka

Bengaluru, Aug 5: After being grilled by the Income Tax sleuths for three consecutive days in connection with an alleged tax evasion case, Karnataka Minister D K Shivakumar today said he has not violated the law and the truth will eventually come out. In a swoop down that raised a political storm, the IT department on Wednesday began its searches on various properties linked to Shivakumar, who is

New Delhi, Aug 5: The RSS on Friday demanded a judicial probe into the “political killings” of its workers in Kerala, alleging that they were aimed at containing its expansion in the state. RSS Joint General Secretary Dattatreya Hosabale claimed that 14 RSS workers have been killed since October 2016. “The Kerala government should fulfil its constitutional responsibilities and check this political

Bengaluru, Aug 5: BJP state spokesperson S Suresh Kumar on Friday condemned Chief Minister Siddaramaiah for accusing party national president Amit Shah of orchestrating I-T raids on Energy Minister D K Shivakumar. “BJP takes strong exception to the false, baseless and malicious accusations with all the forces at its command and rejects it with the contempt it deserves,” Kumar said in a press

New Delhi, Aug 5: Income Tax officials called in central forces to accompany them to conduct raids in Karnataka because of previous instances where they had been subjected to “intimidation and attacks,” top officials said. “We have had instances where the I-T raid parties have been subjected to physical attacks and intimidation to abandon their operation and even cases filed against them by some

Bengaluru, Aug 5: The BJP MPs from Karnataka on Friday raised the attacks on BJP and RSS workers in the state, during their meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. They mentioned about the recent killing of RSS workers in coastal Karnataka, increase in communal violence and filing of cases against BJP leaders by the police in the state, sources said. In the meeting, which was also attended by