Karnataka

Bengaluru, Sept 26: As the CBI raided the office and residence of former Bengaluru police commissioner Alok Kumar on Thursday in connection with a phone tapping case, former chief minister HD Kumaraswamy said he is not worried as he has no connection with the matter. "Let them raid whoever they want to. Why are you asking me? How am I connected to it?" Kumaraswamy told reporters in reaction to the

New Delhi, Sept 26: The CBI has recorded statements of two senior IPS officers of Karnataka in connection with the multi-crore I-Monetary Advisory (IMA) scam case, officials said on Thursday. The agency had called Inspector General Hemant Nimbalkar and deputy commissioner of police-ranked Ajay Hilori for questioning recently, they said. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had recently taken

New Delhi, Sept 26: Senior Congress leaders Ahmed Patel and Anand Sharma on Thursday met party leader from Karnataka D K Shivakumar who is currently in the judicial custody in a money laundering case filed by the Enforcement Directorate. The two leaders were accompanied to the Tihar Jail, where Shivakumar is lodged, by the party's state unit member D K Suresh. ''We inquired about his welfare, we

Bengaluru, Sept 26: The Election Commission Thursday told the Supreme Court that it would defer the upcoming by-polls to 15 Assembly constituencies in Karnataka. The statement by EC's council came after a 3-judge bench headed by Justice N V Ramana said that it would decide on the batch of petitions filed by 17 disqualified MLAs of Karnataka challenging the order of former Speaker K R Ramesh Kumar

New Delhi, Sept 26: Congress leader DK Shivakumar on Thursday moved the Delhi High Court for bail in connection with the money laundering case. Shivakumar's legal team approached the High Court after his earlier bail plea was dismissed by a special court in Delhi on Wednesday. The special court had dismissed his bail plea stating that the Karnataka Congress leader is "not entitled to bail" at this

Bengaluru, Sept 26: Trouble is looming large over the BJP in the state with previously defeated party candidates expressing unhappiness against the state leadership for favouring the disqualified Congress and JD(S) MLAs families in allotment of tickets ahead of the upcoming by-polls. Party leaders from all fifteen constituencies, where by-polls are going to be held, have come out in opposition to

Kasaragod, Sep 26: Indian Union Mulslim League (IUML) has nominated its Kasaragod District President M C Kamarudheen as United Democratic Front (UDF) Candidate to contest in the bypoll from Manjeswaram Assembly Constituency on October 21. IUML State President Panakkad Sayd Hyderali Shihab Thangal on Wednesday announced the name of Mr Kamarudheen. The decision came after the opposition from the

Bengaluru, Sept 26: Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) raided the house of Bengaluru's former Police Commissioner, Alok Kumar on Thursday in phone tapping case. As many as 20 officers raided his house and started investigation on the background of recorded the audio copy. Last month Mr Kumar, who had approached the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) after he was shunted out from the police

New Delhi, Sept 26: Average wealth of an MLA in India has swollen more than ten times from USD 1.3 million in the year 2015 to a ₹13.6 million in 2018, founder of the Association for Democratic Reforms said, Prof Jagdeep Chhokar said in New Delhi on Wednesday. Professor Chhokar said that for an Indian MP, the average wealth in the year 2004 had stood at USD 280,639. However, the figure has grown

Mangaluru, Sept 26: The police have stepped up security measures at shopping malls across the city a day after an ugly communal brawl which led to the arrest of three persons including a minor boy. Yesterday, a handful of people had assaulted a man in a mall for saying 'India is a Hindu Nation and Muslims should not come here.' The incident of the video has gone viral on social media. The one who