Karnataka

New Delhi, Mar 30: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday said the Congress-led UPA made "corruption a cause" by staging an "unprecedented" protest in Bengaluru along with the Janata Dal (Secular). Jaitley's remark comes a day after Karnataka chief minister HD Kumaraswamy, deputy chief minister G Parameshwara and other senior leaders from the JD (S) and Congress protested outside the Income Tax

Bengaluru, Mar 30: The All India Congress Committee (AICC) president Rahul Gandhi has issued a stern warning to the party leaders and workers working against the interests of Congress-JD(S) alliance candidates in the Karnataka in the run-up to the Lok Sabha elections. According to the KPCC sources, the Congress president had sent instructions to all the party-men not to derail the Congress-JD(S)

Mangaluru, March 30: Time for relax and fun! An opportunity to all the families to Stress away from your daily routine work at least for one day! The well-known Nursery & Primary School in the city, The Shepherds International Academy is organizing a beautiful fest on Sunday 31st March, 2019, 10:00 am to 7:00 pm at their prestigious new school premises in Attavar in Ivory Enclave, S.L. Mathias

Bengaluru, Mar 30: Karnataka Congress chief Dinesh Gundu Rao on Saturday wrote a letter to President Ram Nath Kovind seeking his intervention against the ongoing Income Tax raids against the Congress and JD (S) leaders, terming it as a political vendetta by the BJP against its rivals at the time of elections. "We request you to direct the Income Tax department to desist from conducting raids in

Bengaluru, Mar 30: As many as 241 candidates are in the fray for 14 Lok Sabha constituencies in Karnataka for the first phase of polling on April 18 after the last date of withdrawals on Friday, said an official. "With 33 withdrawals after scrutiny of 274 validly nominated candidates on Wednesday, the number of contestants in 14 parliamentary seats is 241," said an official of the state's chief

Mangaluru, Mar 30: As many as 13 candidates, including seven independents, were left in the fray for the April 18 Lok Sabha election in Dakshina Kannada as only one of the 14 candidates decided to remain out of fray on Friday, the last day for withdrawal of nomination. Candidates in fray are: Nalin Kumar Kateel (BJP – Lotus), Mithun M Rai (Indian National Congress – Hand), S Sathish Salian

Mangaluru, Mar 30: Sleuths from the Anti Rowdy squad of Mangaluru North Sub Division arrested two persons allegedly involved in betting on the Pakistan-Australia ODI. In a press release, the police gave the names of the accused as Bharatesh, 38, of Kulai and Mahantesh Amin, 38, of Kadri. The police said the two were using two betting mobile apps for the purpose and collecting money from people

Udupi, Mar 30: Hephsiba Rani Korlapati, Deputy Commissioner, said on Friday that as many as seven cases had been filed, and Rs. 16,65,810 in cash had been seized in Udupi district after the model code of conduct came into force for the Lok Sabha elections. Speaking to presspersons here, Ms. Korlapati said that of the Rs. 16.65 lakh seized, an amount of Rs. 3.25 lakh was returned in one case after

Bengaluru, Mar 30: After the Supreme Court’s dismissed a Special Leave Petition filed by the Karnataka government, the latter has no option but to place the Anwar Manippady report before the House. The report allegedly states that some 28,000 acres out of 54,000 acres of Wakf properties has been embezzled worth some Rs 2.3 lakh crore as on 2012 when the report was submitted to the then state

Bengaluru, Mar 29: Azim Premji University, a Deemed University, has called for creation of a National Urban Employment Guarantee Programme to strengthen small and medium seized towns in India. In a draft policy paper titled 'Strengthening Towns through Sustainable Employment' released here on Friday, the members of the Centre for Sustainable Employment, Azim Premji University, Bangalore have