Karnataka

Bengaluru, Jan 17: With the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party’s plan to destablise the JD(S)-Congress coalition government in Karnataka come a cropper, all eyes are now on the Congress Legislative Party (CLP) meeting convened by Coordination Committee Chairman of the State government Siddaramaiah, on Friday. Congress party is in a buoyant mood after it faced rebellion within the party and the

Bengaluru, Jan 17: Eight legislators, who have been appointed as parliamentary secretaries, were sworn in by Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy here on Thursday. Those administered the oath of office were MLCs: K. Abdul Jabbar, Ivan D’Souza and K. Govindraju, and MLAs: Anjali Nimbalkar, Mahantesh Shivanand Kaujalagi, Roopakala M. Shashidhar, K. Raghavendra Basavaraj Hitnal and D.S. Holageri. Deputy

Bengaluru, Jan 17: Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy has promised to look into the long pending demand for providing internal reservation among the Scheduled Castes in the State. Speaking after inaugurating the Adi-Jambava Development Corporation, first of its kind in the State, here on Thursday, he said that “Government have an open mind to fulfill the demand for providing internal

Bengaluru, Jan 17: Hitting out at the BJP for making "futile attempts" to destabilise his government, Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy Thursday accused the saffron party of keeping its MLAs in "confinement" at a hotel in Gurugram. Grappling with the political turmoil triggered by reports that the BJP was luring Congress MLAs, Kumaraswamy rejected a charge by the saffron party that he was

Kottayam, Jan 17: Four nuns — who went on a public protest last year demanding arrest of Bishop Franco Mulakkal, who then headed the Roman Catholic Diocese in Jalandhar in Punjab — were on Wednesday handed transfer orders asking them to shift to different places but they declined to oblige. As the four nuns, now attached to a convent at Kuruvilangad near here, refused to move, the Mother Superior

Bengaluru, Jan 17: The public sector entity Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) designed and developed light combat helicopter (LCH) has successfully carried out air-to-air missile firing on a moving aerial target. "This is the first time in the country that a helicopter has carried out air-to-air missile engagement. None of the helicopters with the military services in the country has

Bengaluru, Jan 17: Opposition leader in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly B S Yeddyurappa, who is also BJP Karnataka unit President, today alleged that the story of 'Operation Lotus' was spread by ruling Congress-JDS leaders only to cover up the failures of the Coalition government which is yet to take off even after seven months of coming to power. Speaking to newsmen before leaving to Tamakuru

Bengaluru, Jan 17: In a horrific incident, an undergraduate student of Azim Premji University in Bengaluru was brutally assaulted after being abducted by three miscreants who were under the influence of narcotics and alcohol. The 21-year-old was also stripped naked, branded, spat on, urinated upon and robbed off his possessions by the assailants. The incident took place on January 14 at around 7pm

Bengaluru, Jan 17: In the wake of Bharatiya Janata Party’s repeated attempts to topple coalition government in Karnataka, senior Congress leaders in Karnataka have prepared a new counter-strategy. According to reports at least five Congress Ministers have reportedly expressed their willingness to give up their ministerial postings to accommodate dissident MLAs in the Cabinet. These ministers are

Bengaluru, Jan 17: The BJP in Karnataka suffered a loss of face on Wednesday after its efforts to topple the Congress-JD(S) coalition government failed with many of the disgruntled Congress MLAs developing cold feet at the last moment and not succumbing to the saffron party’s Operation Lotus. This is the BJP’s second failed attempt in the last seven months to form a government in Karnataka. The