Karnataka

Mandya, Mar 29: A women’s wing leader of the Janata Dal (Secular) has claimed that she had alerted CM HD Kumaraswamy on Wednesday night about possible income tax raids on political leaders and their associates based on information from a cab driver. The woman — who covered her face in the video in an attempt to conceal her identity — said the cabbie worked in Bengaluru. In the video, posted to

Bengaluru, Mar 29: The Bharatiya Janata Party defended action by the Income Tax Department as a “non-partisan professional work” which “the coalition was needlessly politicising”. The sleuths of IT department on Wednesday and Thursday raided residences of several individuals having close links with Janata Dal (Secular) and Congress across Karnataka. JD(S) called the raid as a revenge by BJP led

Udupi, Mar 29: A local court here has sentenced four persons in the murder of an undertrial, Vinod Shettigar, which took place at the District Jail at Anjar near Hiriyadka in Udupi district on January 14, 2011, to life imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs. 20,000 each, under Section 302 of Indian Penal Code, on them. Shanthi Bai, Principal Public Prosecutor, said here on Thursday that the

Bengaluru, Mar 29: An 18-month-old girl and her 5-year-old brother drowned in a sump in an under-construction residential building at Kodigehalli, K.R. Puram, here yesterday. According to the police, the young siblings, Basamma and Naveen, resided in a makeshift shed near the building with their parents, who eked out a living as construction labourers. The children’s father, Mallappa, was out of

Bengaluru, Mar 28: The Income Tax office, Karnataka and Goa area, has clarified that it had conducted raids on residence, properties and offices of several contractors and connected persons today. It is a routine rid after getting credible evidence on tax evasion and no Residence or Offices of Members of Parliament or Karnataka Legislature members were targeted. The IT Department conducted raids

Shivamogga, Mar 28: Alleging that the Opposition Congress leaders are indulged in demoralizing the Indian Defence forces by questioning the success of the Air strike on terrorists locations inside Pakistan, Former Karnataka Minister and senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader B Sriramulu said that “If Pakistan bombs India, nobody except Rahul will perish”. Addressing an election meeting after B Y

Mangaluru, Mar 28: Dakshina Kannada MP Nalin Kumar Kateel, who seeking reelection on BJP ticket for the third consecutive term today rubbished the reports of secret pact with the Social Democratic Party of India as baseless rumours. Congress leaders in the coastal district had recently claimed that SDPI fielded its candidate from Dakshina Kannada just to help BJP by dividing non-communal votes and

Newsroom, Mar 28: Women empowerment is a lip service for our national and regional parties. If you need any data to prove it, then look no further than Karnataka: There are just three women candidates in the poll fray from three major parties of the state for next month’s Lok Sabha polls. The BJP, Congress and JD(S) have indeed given ‘equal representation’ to women, albeit only in that each has

Tumkur, Mar 28: A meeting of Janata Dal(Secular) (JDS) and Congress leaders has decided to hold the joint meeting of their workers across the parliamentary constituency from April 1. A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting here on Wednesday, which was attended by Deputy Chief Minister Dr G Paarmeshwar and state Cabinet Minister SR Srinivas, said Ramesh Babu, a JD(S) leader. Babu said: “We

Bengaluru, Mar 28: The District electoral officers have been issued notification for the remaining 14 Lok Sabha seats, which goes to poll on April-23 in the second and final phase poll in Karnataka. With the issuing of the notifications, the process of filing nomination papers for the second phase for the Chikkodi, Belagavi, Bhagalkot, Vijayapura, Kalaburagi, Raichur, Bidar, Koppal, Ballari