Karnataka

Bengaluru, Jan 16: Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy on Wednesday said the Congress MLAs who are in Mumbai are constantly in touch with him and assured that the three legislators will come back. Speaking to media here, Kumaraswamy reaffirmed that the Janata Dal (Secular)-Congress coalition is going on smoothly in Karnataka. "MLAs (Congress MLAs in Mumbai hotel) are unreachable to the media

Bengaluru, Jan 16: A total of over five crore people remained as the eligible voters, who can cast their votes in the coming 2019 Lok Sabha elections, after completion of special summary revision of electoral list in Karnataka, State Chief Electoral Officer Sanjeev Kumar said today. Addressing a Press Conference here on Wednesday, Mr Kumar said that the electoral rolls, comprising 2,54,84972 Men

Bengaluru, Jan 16: Karnataka Congress In-charge KC Venugopal on Wednesday clarified that there is no internal fight in the Congress and he is in touch with party MLAs who are in Mumbai. "I'm in touch with all our MLAs. This drama is going to end in a day or two. We are all together and there is no internal fight in Congress. This (speculation) is all baseless," Venugopal told ANI. The Congress

Chikamagaluru, Jan 16: Former Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah today strongly attacked Opposition leader in the Legislative Assembly B S Yeddyurappa, who is also the BJP State President, saying that though he is 76 year old he has not learnt lesson in Politics and indulging in pulling down constitutionally formed Congress-JDS Coalition Government in the State. Addressing a press conference

New Delhi, Jan 16: Over 2,300 Muslim women from India will go on Haj this year without 'Mehram' or male companion as all those who applied under this category have been exempted from the lottery system, Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said Wednesday. The Modi government had last year allowed women going to Haj without Mehram, which had resulted in about 1,300 Muslim women going for

Kasaragod, Jan 16: A man from Kasaragod district who was arrested by the Delhi police recently for alleged plot to “kill a high profile personality”, is in fact an active leader of Bharatiya Janata Party. CM Muhatasim alias Tasim alias Taslim, a resident of Chembarika in Kasaragod district, was picked up from Chattamchal by Vidyanagar police on January 11 as per the directions of Delhi police. The

Bengaluru, Jan 16: The police have arrested a 45-year-old married man for cheating and robbing at least 16 women from across the state by promising marriage. All of his victims are widows and divorcees. D M Ramakrishna, a resident of Doddamulagodu village in T Narasipura taluk, Mysuru district, not only cheated each woman of money and stole their jewellery, but also had physical relationships with

Gurugram, Jan 16: Amidst speculation that the Congress-JD(S) coalition in Karnataka may have challenging times ahead, BJP state chief B S Yeddyurappa, has reportedly promised his party MLAs that he would give them a good news within couple of days. Yeddyurappa’s off-the-cuff comments came as Karnataka BJP MLAs gathered to celebrate Sankranti at a luxury hotel near Gurugram in Haryana, where they

Belagavi, Jan 16: A twenty-six-year-old woman hanged herself to a ceiling fan late on Monday night. She was allegedly fed up by the torture of her husband’s family for giving birth to a girl child. Akshata Vidyadhar Kakatikar, a resident of Om Nagar, Khasbag is the deceased. Her father Vinayak Sonar has registered a complaint in Shahapur police station alleging that Akshata was constantly tortured

Udupi, Jan 16: Almost seven months after he was arrested by the Kuwait police on charge of carrying banned medicine, S hankara Poojary, a 40-year-old expatriate worker hailing from Basroor in Kundapur of Udupi district, has finally been released. Mr. Poojary had migrated to Kuwait in May 2014 to work with a company called Agricultural Food Products Company, K.S.C. He would visit once in two years