Karnataka

Bengaluru, Jul 17: Chief minister Siddaramaiah has reiterated that the BJP was raking up a non-issue in DySP MK Ganapathi's suicide case. At the Karnataka Media Academy event, Siddaramaiah said between 2003 and 2013, as many as 120 policemen committed suicide. "The maximum number of cop suicides have occurred during the BJP regime. In 2007, there were 24 cases and in 2012, 17 cops ended their

Turkey's former prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu being briefed by General Akin Öztürk Turkey, Jul 17: A main suspect in the failed coup against the Turkish government formerly served as a military attaché to Israel, reports say. General Akin Öztürk, also the former commander of Turkey's air force, was arrested on Saturday along with at least five other generals in connection to the failed coup. From

Mangaluru, Jul 17: Nearly two years after she swam for two kilometres after being pushed into Kumaradhara river by her boyfriend when she was six month old pregnant, a brave woman from Belthangady has won a legal battle against him. The 6th additional district and sessions judge D T Puttarangaswamy on Saturday found labourer Anand, 25, guilty of charges of attempting to murder the victim of his

Chikkamagaluru, Jul 17: BJP leader and Chikkamagaluru MLA C T Ravi has finally admitted that some of the accused and case of the kidnapping of a businessman and the eventual suicide of a police officer suspected to be linked to it were associated with the Sangh Parivar. “Now, it is left to the government to arrest them,” he said at a press conference here on Saturday. The case became sensational

New Delhi, Jul 17: Karnataka Pradesh Congress President and Home Minister G Parameshwara on Saturday appraised Congress president Sonia Gandhi on the developments related to the suicide of DySP?M K Ganapathi. During the meeting, Parameshwara is learnt to have told Sonia Gandhi that his advisor Kempaiah was interfering in the functioning of the police department. Kempaiah's actions are one of the

Bengaluru, Jul 17:?Chief Minister Siddaramaiah answered various questions posed by journalists at an interaction organised by the Karnataka Media Academy here on Saturday. Assumptive journalism Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has found a new category of journalism, assumptive journalism. He said, “Ooha patrikodyama is dangerous. Earlier, off-the-record information given to the media used to remain so

Mangaluru, Jul 16: Senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge said the party has failed completely in marketing the achievements of the UPA government. Inaugurating the party convention and Ambedkar Jayanthyutsava organized by Mangaluru South Block Congress Committee here on Saturday, Kharge said that Congress concentrated only on work and silently fulfilling promises whereas BJP concentrated only

Mumbai, Jul 16: Dr Zakir Naik, who is known as the authority on comparative religion, has reportedly filed defamation case against 10 media houses for making baseless allegations against him and airing his video clips out of context to mislead people. When asked about his plans to return to India this year, he said: “For media trial? I can answer to allegations in a better way from where I am. I

Mangaluru, Jul 16: One of the coaches of the Madgaon-Mangaluru Central DEMU train today derailed at the railway junction here, throwing traffic on the Mumbai-Thiruvananthapuram rail sector out of gear. There were no casualties, Railway officials said. The derailment occurred soon after the train left the junction at 12.32 PM towards Mangaluru Central, they said. There were 11 passengers in the

New Delhi, July 16: Congress veteran Margaret Alva today accused her boss Sonia Gandhi of running the party "arbitrarily" and claimed she was often told by former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that he wanted her in his Cabinet, but the Congress president did not allow it. "The decision making in the Congress is very centralised," Alva told Karan Thapar in India Today TV's show, To The Point. She