Karnataka

Bengaluru, Sept 27: In a major decision, the state government had disbanded all the administrative committees, of the Muzarai temples, comprising non-officials, here on Friday. According to official sources, the decision to discontinue the administrative committees of all the temples, which comes under the Muzarai department, had been issued following a direction from the Chief Minister B S

Davanagere, Sep 27(UNI) The Davanagere District and Sessions court has convicted and sentenced to two years imprisonment to a Bangaldeshi women on charges of illegal entry into India. Judge Ambadas Kulkarani, who delivered the order on Thursday, also imposed a fine of 10,000 on the accused Asma (30), resident of bharathpur village of Daalchooda district in Bangaladesh, who was found in Davangere

Mangaluru, Sept 27: Entrepreneur Isaac Vas has been elected as the President of the Kanara Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) at its 79th annual general meeting held on 25th September 2019. KCCI was founded in the year 1940. The newly elected Board of KCCI for 2019-20 includes Shashidhar Pai Maroor as Vice-President, Nissar Fakeer Mohammed and Divakar Pai Kochikar as the Secretaries, M

New Delhi, Sept 27: Congress general secretary K C Venugopal on Thursday took a jibe at the BJP-ruled government in Karnataka and said that the Election Commission (EC) is acting on state government's direction. Venugopal's comments came after the poll body informed the Supreme Court that it would defer the upcoming by-polls to 15 Assembly constituencies in Karnataka till the top court takes a

New Delhi, Sept 27: The Congress on Thursday said it is "constitutionally strange" that the Supreme Court is "interfering" with election process in Karnataka, after the Election Commission told the apex court that assembly bypolls in 15 seats in the state would be deferred till pleas of disqualified MLAs are decided. Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said an elected government in

Bengaluru, Sept 26: As the CBI raided the office and residence of former Bengaluru police commissioner Alok Kumar on Thursday in connection with a phone tapping case, former chief minister HD Kumaraswamy said he is not worried as he has no connection with the matter. "Let them raid whoever they want to. Why are you asking me? How am I connected to it?" Kumaraswamy told reporters in reaction to the

New Delhi, Sept 26: The CBI has recorded statements of two senior IPS officers of Karnataka in connection with the multi-crore I-Monetary Advisory (IMA) scam case, officials said on Thursday. The agency had called Inspector General Hemant Nimbalkar and deputy commissioner of police-ranked Ajay Hilori for questioning recently, they said. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had recently taken

New Delhi, Sept 26: Senior Congress leaders Ahmed Patel and Anand Sharma on Thursday met party leader from Karnataka D K Shivakumar who is currently in the judicial custody in a money laundering case filed by the Enforcement Directorate. The two leaders were accompanied to the Tihar Jail, where Shivakumar is lodged, by the party's state unit member D K Suresh. ''We inquired about his welfare, we

Bengaluru, Sept 26: The Election Commission Thursday told the Supreme Court that it would defer the upcoming by-polls to 15 Assembly constituencies in Karnataka. The statement by EC's council came after a 3-judge bench headed by Justice N V Ramana said that it would decide on the batch of petitions filed by 17 disqualified MLAs of Karnataka challenging the order of former Speaker K R Ramesh Kumar

New Delhi, Sept 26: Congress leader DK Shivakumar on Thursday moved the Delhi High Court for bail in connection with the money laundering case. Shivakumar's legal team approached the High Court after his earlier bail plea was dismissed by a special court in Delhi on Wednesday. The special court had dismissed his bail plea stating that the Karnataka Congress leader is "not entitled to bail" at this