Karnataka

Bengaluru, Nov 13: Hours after the Supreme Court on Wednesday paved the way for the 17 disqualified Congress- JD(S) legislators to contest the December 5 bypolls for 15 seats in Karnataka, Deputy Chief Minister Ashwathnarayan C N said they will be joining the BJP on November 14. "They (disqualified legislators) have expressed interest to join BJP and have met our senior leaders. They have been

New Delhi, Nov 13: Congress general secretary KC Venugopal on Wednesday welcomed the Supreme Court's judgement regarding the disqualification of 17 MLAs in Karnataka and said that state Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa has lost the moral right to continue in his post. In a series of tweets, Venugopal said, "We welcome the Supreme Court judgement in the Karnataka disqualification matter which

Mangaluru, Nov 13: Italian flag cruise vessel Costa Victoria arrived at the New Mangalore Port, New Mangaluru Port (NMP) sources said. According to them, there were 1,928 passengers and 766 crew on board the cruise, which arrived on Tuesday night.

Kolar, Nov 13: Former Karnataka Speaker and MLA K R Ramesh Kumar on Wednesday expressed "sigh of relief" as the Supreme Court upholds its decision to disqualify 17 Congress- JD(S) MLAs. Speaking to the media at Srinivas Prasad in Kolar district he said that,' the decision of disqualification of MLAs was upheld and this would be a lesson to legislatures who ditched the party resulting in bringing

Bengaluru, Nov 13: Karnataka Congress unit chief Dinesh Gundu Rao on Wednesday said that the Supreme court verdict which upheld disqualification of rebel Congress-JD(S) legislators proved that BJP used unconstitutional means to fabricate a majority and alleged that the ruling party was behind the toppling of the coalition government. "Supreme Court has upheld the disqualification of all the 17 MLA

Bengaluru, Nov 13: Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Wednesday welcomed the Supreme Court decision to allow disqualified MLAs to contest polls, and termed it as verdict against the "conspiracy" of the then Speaker K R Ramesh Kumar and Congress leader Siddaramaiah. Expressing confidence that BJP would win all the 15 seats, where bypolls are scheduled to be held on December 5, he said the

New Delhi, Nov 13: H Vishwanath, Roshan Baig and Ramesh Jarkiholi, who are among the 17 MLAs disqualified by Karnataka speaker, on Wednesday welcomed the Supreme Court's verdict allowing them to contest the upcoming by-elections and expressed willingness to extend support to BS Yediyurappa-led BJP government in the state. The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the decision of the then Karnataka

Bengaluru, Nov 13: Even after writing a letter to Speaker Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri a month ago, Karnataka's Leader of Opposition Siddaramaiah has not received the facilities that need to be given to him including a car, office and office staff, sources said. As per protocol, the opposition legislative party leader must be given these facilities. Sources said Siddaramaiah wrote a letter to Kageri

Bengaluru, Nov 13: In a setback to Congress leader D K Shivakumar, the Karnataka High Court on Tuesday dismissed the criminal review petition filed him against the order of the trial court which had rejected his plea seeking him to discharge from the case registered by the Income Tax Department for allegedly evading tax. This apart, the High Court has also dismissed the criminal review petitions

New Delhi, Nov 13: The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the decision of the then Karnataka speaker K R Ramesh Kumar to disqualify 17 rebel Congress-JD(S) MLAs under the anti-defection law and said that they can contest the upcoming by-elections in the state. "We are upholding the order of the Speaker," said Justice Ramana while reading out the judgment. The top court said that resignation does