Karnataka

Bengaluru, Jan 18: Senior Congress leader and the former Karnataka Minister H K Patil, took over as the new Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee’s Campaign Committee Chairman at a party workers meeting held here on Friday. AICC general secretary K C Venugopal, who is also party affairs in Karnataka, symbolically handed over the charge by giving party’s flag. Speaking on the occasion, Mr Patil

Bengaluru, Jan 18: Ahead of the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) meeting here, Karnataka BJP chief B S Yeddyurappa on Friday said it was the Grand Old Party's responsibility to keep its flock together and his party had nothing to do with the "confusion" in the ruling coalition in the southern state. He also said the allegations that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was trying to poach Congress

Kalaburagi, Jan 18: The disgruntled Congress MLA from Chincholi assembly seat in Kalaburagi district, was deeply hurt due to the slanderous campaign launched by the congress workers against him, Ramachandra Jadhav, his brother said here on Friday. Speaking to newsmen, Ramachandra Jadhav said that, “My brother was deeply hurt by some of the youth Congress workers, who had staged in front of the

Bengaluru, Jan 18: Officially announcing his decision to contest the upcoming Lok Sabha polls from Bengaluru Central, multi-lingual actor Prakash Raj aka Prakash Rai today at a press conference here obliquely urged Congress to support him by not fielding any candidate. Replying to a question whether he would divide secular votes by stealing the votes of Congress in the minority dominated

Indian caste system has been a big obstacle to the journey towards equality. With Independence and the Indian Constitution coming into being, the provisions were made for socially backward classes for reservations for SC and ST. Later in 1990, VP Singh when faced with the threat to his power from Choudhary Devilal, implemented to report of Mandal Commission which gave 27% of reservation to other

Bengaluru, Jan 18: Janata Dal (Secular) supremo H D Deve Gowda and Karnataka chief minister H D Kumaraswamy have urged the minority communities, especially Muslims, to extend its support to the party to “uproot” the Narendra Modi regime at the Centre. Speaking at the JD(S) minority convention organised at the Palace Grounds on Thursday, the two leaders reiterated their party’s intention to

Newsroom, Jan 18: An expatriate worker hailing from Karnataka has mysteriously gone missing in Oman since December 10, 2018. Deepak R P (30) was working with the Mass International Hypermarket in Muscat, Oman for the past seven years. Manjula V, Deepak’s mother, who lives in Bengaluru, claimed that she last heard from her son on December 10 around 11 am after which his phone remained switched off

Hubballi, Jan 18: A 30-year-old woman lost Rs 7.1 lakh to fraudsters after she unsuspectingly followed the instructions of an unknown caller. The victim is Sridevi Alur, a resident of Pavate Nagar, here. She filed a case in this regard at the Cyber Crime police station on Thursday. A few days ago, Sridevi received a call from a man who introduced himself as Vanruben. The gullible woman was

Bengaluru, Jan 18: Two days after BJP’s ‘Operation Lotus’ withered, the Congress will demonstrate its strength at the legislature party meeting on Friday. As three Congress MLAs continue to remain elusive, much like the two independents, BJP hasn’t lost all hopes. The CLP meeting, convened to put an end to ongoing talk of a few Congress MLAs joining hands with the BJP to topple the seven-month-old

Mangaluru, Jan 18: A group of fishermen from Uttar Kannada working in United Arab Emirates who had been held captive by Iran for allegedly straying into Iranian waters last year, have finally returned to their native district through Mangaluru International Airport. They were released by Iran earlier this month. According to sources, some among the 18 such fishermen from Uttara Kannada landed in