Karnataka

Bengaluru, Mar 8: Bhratiya Janata Party’s Mysore-Kodagu Lok Sabha member, Pratap Simha, on Friday subjected to a court custody for brief while by a city court for defying its orders to appear personally in a defamation suit filed by the cine star and social activist Prakash Raj (Rai). The magistrate of the People Representatives Court, remanded the BJP MP for a court’s custody, when the former had

Madikeri, Mar 8: The Karnataka forest department officials with local people rescued two calves and an adult elephant which accidentally fell into an coffee estate pond in Chelavara village near Cheyyandane in the district on Thursday. Forest department officials said on Friday that the residents who were saw trumpeting sounds found three elephants trapped in the pond used to water a coffee

Mysuru, Mar 8: Cine actor Sumalatha, wife of former Mandya Parliament member and union minister Ambareesh said on Friday that she will wait for a Congress ticket be allotted to her till the last moment and if not, she may contest as an independent candidate from the Lok Sabha segment in the coming election. Janata Dal(S), which had a sitting member from the segment in the Vokkaliga stronghold has

Bengaluru, Mar 8: All India Congress Committee (AICC) President Rahul Gandhi will kick start party's election campaign on March 9 from Haveri in North Karnataka for Lok Sabha election for which dates are expected to be announced by the Chief Election Commission shortly. Ruling Congress-JDS coalition partners in Karnataka have decided to put up united fight in the General Election to thwart

Bengaluru, Mar 8: Spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravishankar, appointed by the Supreme Court as a member of a panel to mediate the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute case, on Friday said everybody must move together to end long-standing conflicts. The three-member panel is headed by former apex court judge F M I Kallifulla and also includes senior advocate Sriram Panchu. "We must all move together

WOMAN. What comes to our mind when we hear this word? The deep loving eyes of my mother, an everlasting beauty in my grandmother, the elegance of my favourite school teacher, the naughty expressions of my little sister, the grace in the stride of the lady professor, the white clad nurses at the hospitals who are epitomes of empathy... are a few that come into my mind. The beautiful soul that she

Bengaluru, Mar 8: Congress veteran B K Hariprasad has stoked a controversy by claiming that the Pulwama terror attack was a “fixed match” between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and neighboring country Pakistan. Mr. Hariprasad told media persons here, “... If you look at the chain of events that have taken place after Pulwama, it looks like Mr. Modi had a match-fixing with Pakistan people.” He also

Bengaluru, Mar 8: As India's tech hub, Bengaluru has more billionaires and ultra-high net worth individuals (UHNWIs) than 5 years ago, said global property consultancy Knight Frank in its Wealth Report 2019 on Thursday. "Bengaluru has 33 billionaires in 2018 as against 30 in 2017 and 26 in 2013, registering 10 per cent annual growth and 27 per cent over the last 5 years," said the London-based

Bengaluru, Mar 8: Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy's son Nikhil Kumaraswamy, a popular actor, said on Thursday that he was ready to serve the people of Mandya from where he is expected to contest the coming Lok Sabha elections. Nikhil, the third generation of the mighty Deve Gowda clan, said he would go by the decision of the party on fielding him from Mandya, a Vokkaliga community bastion

Bengaluru, Mar 7: The NewGen of Twitter users and others often using the social media, including the first time voters in Karnataka, will form good percentage in the coming Lok Sabha Elections and their awareness may influence the voting pattern. A study conducted by Twitter India, serving the public conversation and its youth engagement initiative ‘#power of 18’ reflects on youth sentiment in