Karnataka

Belagavi, May 27: District police were successful in tracing an accused in a double murder case that took place in the wee hours of May 15 at the premises of a petrol bunk in Kittur. Police have arrested Bhimappa Mallappa Tirthappanavar, 24, of Kallapur village in Dharwad district and him sent to judicial custody. He is an employee of RSB Industry in Bailur. Bhimappa had stabbed and killed two

Bengaluru, May 27: Buoyed by a stupendous performance in the recent Lok Sabha polls, the BS Yeddyurappa-led BJP in Karnataka appears to have begun the spade work to topple the year-old JD(S)-Congress government in the state. This was evident on Sunday when disgruntled Congress legislators Ramesh Jarkiholi and K Sudhakar accompanied by BJP leader and former deputy CM R Ashoka met BJP leader SM

Bengaluru, May 26: Pune Magistrate court on Sunday sent two accused in the Dabholkar murder case--Advocate Sanjeev Punalekar and Vikram Bhave -- to CBI custody till June 1. Additional sessions judge S N Sonawane was hearing the matter pertaining to the murder of Narendra Dabholkar, founder of the Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti (MANS). He was shot dead by bike-borne assailants while

Bengaluru, May 26: Following the massive defeat faced by Janata Dal (Secular) and Congress alliance in the 2019 Lok Sabha election, JD(S) working president MS Narayan Rao issued a circular to party leaders, spokespersons and MLAs asking them to not participate in TV debates or give any statements to the media. The BJP has won 25 out of 28 parliamentary seats in Karnataka - a state government by

Bengaluru, May 26: Sumalatha Ambareesh, the first independent candidate to successfully win the Mandya Lok Sabha seat, met senior BJP leader SM Krishna here in Bengaluru on Sunday. She was accompanied by former Karnataka Chief Minister and BJP state president BS Yeddyurappa and party leader R Ashoka. Sumalatha Ambareesh, the veteran actor and wife of late former Congress lawmaker MH Ambareesh

Madikeri, May 26: The rehabilitation of people who lost their houses, owing to landslips in Kodagu during monsoon last year, continues to be a work in progress though the south-west monsoon is hardly two to three weeks away. In all 427 houses are being constructed as part of the rehabilitation package in the first phase and of them about 115 are nearing completion, according to Additional Deputy

Bengaluru, May 26: The Independent candidate Sumalatha Ambharish, who had trounced the JD(S) candidate in the prestigious Mandya Lok Sabha seat, will go by the wishes of the voters of her constituency to join the Bharatiya Janata Party any other political parties. Speaking to newsmen after paying a courtesy visit to the Opposition leader in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly B S Yeddyurappa, who

Bengaluru, May 26: With the triumphant Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders demanding the resignation of the JD(S)-Congress coalition government, which had received a severe drubbing in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections, the Rebel Congress MLA, Ramesh Jarakiholi was reportedly taken responsibility to bring down the one-year-old JD(S) led Coalition government and camping in Goa resorts

Gonda, May 26: Impressed with the prime minister, a Muslim woman has decided to name her newborn 'Narendra Damodardas Modi'. After failing to convince the mother Mainaz Begum against it, the family in ParsapurMahraur village has filed an affidavit seeking the registration of the name. Mainaz Begum came up with the idea while names for the boy were being discussed on May 23, the day the Lok Sabha

Mangaluru, May 26: The Social Democratic Party of India has said that the 46,839 votes secured by its Lok Sabha candidate Mohammed Eliyas in Dakshina Kannada were the ones of people disgusted by the BJP’s communal agenda and the Congress’s breach of trust. In a statement, SDPI Dakshina Kannada district unit president Athaullah Jokatte, said that the Congress should take the blame for the rise of