Karnataka

Bengaluru, Feb 20: Not too long ago, Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi were the only targets in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s poll speeches. But this has changed in recent times. While the Siddaramaiah-led Congress government was under attack during the Karnataka assembly polls last year, now the PM is taking a dig at the JD(S)-Congress government helmed by HD Kumaraswamy. An

Bengaluru, Feb 20: The Central Crime Branch (CCB) on Tuesday filed a chargesheet against Ambidant Marketing and nine others, including former BJP minister G Janardhana Reddy, accusing them of cheating people of Rs 120 crore. The 4,800-page chargesheet, filed before the city civil court, says the number of people cheated is 10,564. Police have registered the names and collected details of 4,800

Bengaluru, Feb 20: Sharing of Lok Sabha seats is unlikely to be a smooth exercise for coalition partners Congress and JD(S) with chief minister HD Kumaraswamy and Congress legislature party leader Siddaramaiah taking on one another over the issue on Tuesday. Refusing to take lightly the indications being given by state Congress leaders that they won’t give any LS seat currently held by the party

Mangaluru, Feb 19: Revenue Minister R.V. Deshpande will inaugurate Moodbidri and Kadaba taluks in Dakshina Kannada district on March 1, said district in-charge Minister U.T. Khader on Wednesday. He told reporters that Mr. Deshpande would visit the two taluk headquarters on March 1 and announce some development programmes, including the starting of KSRTC bus services from Manila to Dharmasthala

Mangaluru, Feb 19: Former Mangaluru City South MLA J.R. Lobo on Tuesday accused Nalin Kumar Kateel, MP of Dakshina Kannada, of misleading people on the ongoing flyover projects at Pumpwell and Thokkottu to cover up the Centre’s failure in completing the projects on time. Addressing presspersons, the former MLA alleged that Mr. Kateel was presenting before the people a wrong picture to cover up his

Bengaluru, Feb 19: Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) President Dinesh Gundurao on Tuesday said that the seat sharing formula between coalition partners in the State – Congress and Janata Dal (Secular) was not finalised yet for the Lok Sabha Election, despite reports that said Congress will give seven seats to JD(S). Reports said that the Congress party had allocated seven seats out of 28

New Delhi, Feb 19: Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, who during his Islamabad visit lauded Imran Khan-led government for its offer of talks with New Delhi, will now receive a list of complaints against Pakistan in India as the Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that India has not yet seen any “constructive approach” from Pakistan. Mohammad bin Salman, a.k.a MbS, will arrive in New

Agartala, Feb 19: A team of Tripura police left for Bengaluru this morning, with inputs from its Karnataka counterpart, to detain a youth who has been charged with making pro-Pakistan comments in social media after the killing of 42 CRPF jawans in Pulwama. According to reports, with the instruction of Union Home Ministry, immediately after the gruesome terror attack in Pulwama last week, police

Karwar, Feb 19: A student of an engineering college in Karwar has allegedly committed suicide at a lodge in Bengaluru’s Majestic area has his girlfriend ditched him and allegedly threatened to kill him. The deceased is Sunil J S, 20, a native of Holenarasipura, Hassan district, was a third-year student at the Government Engineering College, Karwar. Sunil went to Bengaluru on February 13 after

Bengaluru, Feb 19: A pilot was killed and two others ejected to safety when two aircraft of IAF's aerobatic team Surya Kiran crashed near the Yelahanka airbase here Tuesday, a day before the opening of the Aero India show, a top police official said. The mishap occurred during a sortie as part of the rehersal for the five-day Asia's premier Air show here. "There were three pilots, one has died