Karnataka

New Delhi, Jun 12: Rebellion by Congress MLAs in Haryana today helped BJP-backed Independent candidate Subhash Chandra score an upset victory as Congress stalwart Kapil Sibal pulled it off in Uttar Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha polls in which union ministers M Venkaiah Naidu, Birender Singh, Nirmala Sitharaman and M A Naqvi won comfortably. Senior Congress leaders Oscar Fernandes and Jairam Ramesh

Mangaluru: Jun 11: The members of Nethravathi Rakshana Samyukta Samithi staged a protest against Union Minister Sadananda Gowda and former union minister M Veerappa Moily in front of Town Hall on Saturday. The duo was supposed to attend a decennial programme of a channel. The Samithi members waved black flags at Moily and Gowda in their absence. The protesters were stopped by the police when they

Mumbai, Jun 11: CBI has arrested Hindu Janajagruti Samiti leader Virendrasing Tawde in connection with the murder of noted rationalist Narendra Dabholkar in Pune in 2013, the first in the case by the agency. He was arrested late last night from Panvel near here and will be produced before a special court in Pune this afternoon. The Samiti is linked to Goa-based radical Hindu group Sanatan Sanstha

Bengaluru, Jun 11: Three Congress candidates, including K?C?Ramamurthy, and Union Minister Niramala Sitharaman of the BJP won the elections to the Rajya Sabha from Karnataka on Saturday. The Deve Gowda-led JD(S) received a severe setback yet again with its lone contestant, B?M?Farook, not only being defeated, but also failing to get the votes of all 40 MLAs. Eight JD(S) MLAs openly challenged the

Bengaluru, June 11: In a loss of face, eight JD(S) MLAs, defying the party whip, today voted against its official candidate and supported Congress in the biennial elections to fill four Rajya Sabha seats from Karnataka. "8 MLA's have voted against JD-S in today's Rajya Sabha election in favour of Congress. Tomorrow in the party's meeting, we are going to take action against them according to

Bengaluru, Jun 11: Government would take its "own course" on giving a second term to Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan and deliberations and discussions in public domain would not decide it, Union Law Minister Sadananda Gowda said today. Gowda also said he is not aware of the reported formation of a selection committee by the government to shortlist candidates for the post of RBI

New Delhi, Jun 11: Air passengers will soon have a reason to smile with the government today proposing a cap on ticket cancellation charges, increased compensation for denied boarding and steep reduction in excess baggage fee levied by airlines. Suggesting a slew of passenger-centric measures, the Civil Aviation Ministry said airlines will have to refund all statutory taxes in case of flight

Mangaluru, Jun 11: The Karnataka state committee of Bharatiya Janata Party has appointed its new heads for all districts. Sanjeeva Matandoor and Mattar Rathnakar Hegde are new district presidents of BJP for Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts respectively. In a press release issued on Saturday, the BJP state chief and former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa, announced the names of the new BJP

Bengaluru, Jun 11: The Karnataka high court has ordered notice to the state government in response to a PIL seeking implementation of the April 13, 2015 circular regarding erection of display boards in front of all private schools giving particulars of fees etc. A division bench headed by Chief Justice Subhro Kamal Mukherjee has also ordered notice to secretary, primary education, and commissioner

Bengaluru, Jun 11: A private school in the city has expelled a kindergarten student allegedly because he has a ponytail. When Manjunath BC went to pick up his son, Vishnu BM, from St Vincent Pallotti School on Banaswadi Main Road in Babusaab Palya on June 6, principal Fr Paul D'Souza told him that rules did not allow boys to sport ponytails. D'Souza told Manjunath the LKG boy's hair had to be cut