Karnataka

Bengaluru, Sept 25: Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president Dinesh Gundu Rao on Wednesday said that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will face an internal crisis by accommodating the defectors into party fold ahead of the Assembly bye-polls. Speaking to ANI, Rao levelled strong allegations against BJP and said, "Today BJP has lost all morality because they have indulged in corruption

Bengaluru, Sept 25: Karnataka Premier League (KPL) cricket team Belagavi Panthers' owner Asfaq Ali Thara was arrested for his alleged involvement in a betting scam in the KPL tournament, run by the Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA), police said on Wednesday. "On a tip-off that Thara was in touch with a Dubai-based bookie, the city's central crime branch police have taken him into custody

New Delhi, Sept 25: Nearly two weeks after drone and missile attacks on its vital oil facilities, Saudi Arabia has said it is enhancing cooperation with India to combat terrorism, including choking funds to terror networks and exchange of information and intelligence. Saudi Ambassador Dr Saud bin Mohammed Al Sati said India and Saudi Arabia are closely cooperating with each other in fighting

Madhya Pradesh, Sept 25: Two Dalit children were allegedly beaten to death by some people for defecating in front of a panchayat building in Madhya Pradesh's Shivpuri district on Wednesday, police said. The incident took place in Bhavkedhi village in the morning, Sirsod police station's inspector R S Dhakad said. The two children, Roshani (12) and Avinash (10), suffered serious injuries in the

New Delhi/Bengaluru, Sept 25: Karnataka continued to remain the sought-after destination for higher education among foreign students, leading the list of states in India by a long distance, a survey from the HRD ministry said. India gets the maximum number of foreign students from Nepal followed by Afghanistan. The All India Survey of Higher Education (AISHE) for 2018-19 says the total number of

Bengaluru, Sept 25: A political slugfest has erupted between former Chief Ministers Siddaramaiah and H D Kumaraswamy with the two leaders blaming each other for the collapse of the Congress-JD(S) coalition government in Karnataka. The unease that existed between the former alliance partners ever since the fall of the alliance government in July has now come out in the open with the announcement of

Bengaluru, Sept 24: Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Tuesday said it has been "trial by fire" for him whenever he has occupied the top post, as the state was affected by natural calamities. He also expressed hope about getting flood relief funds from the Centre in four to five days. "Whenever I have become Chief Minister it has been a trial by fire. Record rains in 108-110 years have

New Delhi, Sept 24: It would be difficult to question the faith of Hindus with regard to Ayodhya as the birthplace of Lord Ram. Even some Muslim witnesses have termed it as sacred for the Hindus as Makkah is for them, the Supreme Court said on Monday. A 5-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi was questioning senior advocate Rajeev Dhavan, appearing for the Muslim parties

Channapatna, Sept 24: JD-S leader H D Kumaraswamy on Tuesday attacked Congress leader Siddaramaiah for some of his comments and said he was not a 'parrot' domesticated by Sidaramaiah. The comments came in the wake of a tweet by Siddaramaiah against Kumaraswamy. (Secular), "Yes Mr H D Kumaraswamy, it is true that the parrots which I believed in are haunted. It is my whole fault that even after four

Mangaluru, Sept 24: A court here has sentenced a 34-year old man to 10 years rigorous imprisonment for raping and impregnating a minor girl in 2014. B R Pallavi, judge of second Additional District and Sessions court here, which is also the special POCSO court, also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on Santhosh, resident of Bantwal in Dakshina Kannada district. Special public prosecutor C Venkataramana