Karnataka

Bengaluru, Aug 3: Following the IT raids on the residential and office premises of Karnakata energy minister D K Shivakumar, Congress leaders have now expressed apprehensions of similar raids on the premises of other ministers in the Siddaramaiah cabinet. Water resources minister MB Patil came out openly on the issue even as the raids were underway in Shivakumar's home. "I am next in the line of

Bengaluru, Aug 3: The Karnataka government should appoint a committee of experts to study whether the Constitution has a provision to declare a community as an independent religion, opined former chief minister and senior BJP leader Jagadish Shettar. Shettar, who is the leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly, told reporters here that discussions in favour of and against a separate

Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 3: The Kerala government on Wednesday informed Karnataka that it was ready to provide security to People's Democratic Party leader Abdul Nasser Ma’adani, jailed in connection with Bengaluru blast case, during his visit to the state. Abdul Nasser Ma’adani (51), an under-trial lodged in Bengaluru prison in connection with the 2008 serial blasts case, has been permitted by the

New Delhi, Aug 3: The Union Cabinet has cleared a proposal to extend proxy voting to overseas Indians by amending electoral laws. If the proposal passes political muster in Parliament, NRIs will be able to exercise their voting rights through “proxy”. For overseas Indians, the Representation of the People Act needs to be amended to include proxy voting as other means to cast their votes. While

Manglauru, Aug 2: Calling Income Tax reaids on the residences of Energy Minister D.K. Shivakumar and his brother D.K. Suresh as ‘politically motivated’ and ‘undemocratic’ former union minister B Janardhan Poojary opined that the operation was nothing but an action prompted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to defeat senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel. Talking to reporters, Mr. Poojary said that it

Mangaluru, Jul 2: Local leaders of Bharatiya Janata Party have extended unconditional support to Alva’s Education Foundation and its chairman Dr M Mohan Alva following alleged media trial against the institution in the wake of the suspicious death of a high school student. Kavya Poojary, a Class 10 student and state level badminton player, was found hanging in the hostel room of Alva’s High School

Mangaluru, Aug 2: A group of activists from Youth Congress on Wednesday “raided” the office of Income Tax Department in Mangaluru, accusing the department of being a tool to silence the voice against BJP. The activists vandalized the office premises hours after the unexpected I-T raids on residences, resort and offices of Congress leader and Energy Minister D K Shivakumar who is in charge of

Bengaluru, Aug 2: Hitting out at the Modi Government over the I-T searches against his senior minister, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah today alleged it was a politically motivated action to silence the voice against the BJP and vowed not to bow down to such "intimidation." Siddaramaiah accused the Modi government of using the Income Tax Department for its "political conspiracies" The Income

Bengaluru, Aug 2: Ahead of the launch of the state government’s subsidised food outlets Indira Canteen, ‘Namma Appaji Canteen,’a subsidised canteen set up by a JD(S) legislator in the name of the party supremo H D Deve Gowda, will be inaugurated on Wednesday. Namma Appaji Canteen on 50-feet-road in Hanumanthanagar, south Bengaluru, will be open to the public from Wednesday morning. The canteen

Panaji, Aug 2: Stating that the Mahadeyi water dispute issue could not be resolved with the neighbouring states on the party lines, Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar today accused Karnataka of planting an "ecological bomb" by building dams upstream. Speaking in the state legislative assembly on the water dispute issue involving Goa, Karnataka and Maharashtra, Parrikar also said that the state