Karnataka

Bengaluru, Jul 9: The Special Investigating Team (SIT) probing the IMA multi-crore Ponzi scam yesterday arrested senior IAS officer B M Vijayashankar, the Deputy Commissioner of Bengaluru District (Urban). Vijayshankar has been arrested on charges of allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 1.5 crore from IMA to forward a favourable report about the company to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). The RBI had

Bengaluru: As a skilful trouble-shooter, senior Karnataka Congressman DK Shivakumar may have resolved many a crisis in the party. But on Monday he could not prevent his own man, independent MLA H Nagesh, from deserting the coalition and flying to Mumbai. The sequence of events appeared straight out of a Bollywood film where the hero tries to stop the bad man from fleeing. But it wasn’t a joyful

Panaji, Jul 9: Fourteen MLAs of the ruling JD(S)-Congress coalition in Karnataka, who left Mumbai on Monday evening for Goa, were taken to Pune and are expected to reach the coastal state on Tuesday in a special flight, sources said. The MLAs -- 10 of the Congress, two of the JD(S) and two Independents -- were to travel to Goa by road, accompanied by Mumbai BJP Yuva Morcha president Mohit Bhartiya

Bengaluru, Jul 9: The 13-monthold JD(S)-Congress government was reduced to a oneman administration of chief minister HD Kumaraswamy on Monday as all cabinet ministers tendered their resignation in a bid to save the regime. The fraught move, however, seemed to be in vain as the rebel MLAs stuck to their stand and turned down the offer of ministerial berths. In a day of fast-paced developments, the

Bengaluru, Jul 8: In his first comments after 13 MLAs resigned and plunged the JD(S)-Congress coalition government into a crisis, Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy on Monday asserted he has "no fear" about the "political developments" and was concentrating on fulfilling his responsibilities. Kumaraswamy, who returned here from his 10-day long US trip Sunday night, was talking to reporters

Newsroom, Jul 8: The final ‘training camp’ for the terrorists who assassinated rationalist thinker Prof M M Kalburgi around four years ago was organised in Dakshina Kannada district, according to the Special Investigation Team of the Karnataka police. According to SIT sources, key suspect Praveen Prakash Chatur, who was arrested on May 31, took the police to a rubber plantation at Dharamsthala in

Bengaluru, Jul 8: All nine JD(S) ministers in Karnataka have submitted their resignations to facilitate a cabinet reshuffle, Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy's office said on Monday. Their resignations came shortly after 21 ministers of coalition partner, Congress quit the cabinet. "All JD(S) ministers have also resigned like the 21 Congress ministers who have submitted their resignations. The

New Delhi, Jul 8: The BJP-ruled government has no relation to the ongoing developments in Karnataka and did not put pressure on any MLA or MP to switch parties, Union minister Rajnath Singh said on Monday in Lok Sabha. The defence minister said the government is committed to protect the sanctity of Parliament. "Whatever is happening currently in Karnataka, we have not relation with that," he said

Bengaluru, Jul 8: In a desperate bid to save H D Kumaraswamy-led coalition government in Karnataka, 21 ministers from Congress today tendered their resignation allowing the party leadership to lure rebel legislators back by offering them Cabinet positions. This includes Deputy Chief Minister G Parameshwara. The 34-member Cabinet had 22 Congress ministers and 12 of the JD(S). Except for Independent

Bengaluru, Jul 8: In yet another blow to beleaguered HD Kumaraswamy government in Karnataka, Independent MLA and Small Scale Industries Minister H Nagesh has tendered his resignation from the Cabinet and has withdrawn support to the Congress-JD(S) coalition. Nagesh, who was inducted into the Cabinet just last month, has written to Governor Vajubhai R Vala stating that he would extend support to