Karnataka

Bengaluru, Sept 25: A political slugfest has erupted between former Chief Ministers Siddaramaiah and H D Kumaraswamy with the two leaders blaming each other for the collapse of the Congress-JD(S) coalition government in Karnataka. The unease that existed between the former alliance partners ever since the fall of the alliance government in July has now come out in the open with the announcement of

Bengaluru, Sept 24: Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Tuesday said it has been "trial by fire" for him whenever he has occupied the top post, as the state was affected by natural calamities. He also expressed hope about getting flood relief funds from the Centre in four to five days. "Whenever I have become Chief Minister it has been a trial by fire. Record rains in 108-110 years have

New Delhi, Sept 24: It would be difficult to question the faith of Hindus with regard to Ayodhya as the birthplace of Lord Ram. Even some Muslim witnesses have termed it as sacred for the Hindus as Makkah is for them, the Supreme Court said on Monday. A 5-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi was questioning senior advocate Rajeev Dhavan, appearing for the Muslim parties

Channapatna, Sept 24: JD-S leader H D Kumaraswamy on Tuesday attacked Congress leader Siddaramaiah for some of his comments and said he was not a 'parrot' domesticated by Sidaramaiah. The comments came in the wake of a tweet by Siddaramaiah against Kumaraswamy. (Secular), "Yes Mr H D Kumaraswamy, it is true that the parrots which I believed in are haunted. It is my whole fault that even after four

Mangaluru, Sept 24: A court here has sentenced a 34-year old man to 10 years rigorous imprisonment for raping and impregnating a minor girl in 2014. B R Pallavi, judge of second Additional District and Sessions court here, which is also the special POCSO court, also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on Santhosh, resident of Bantwal in Dakshina Kannada district. Special public prosecutor C Venkataramana

Coimbatore, Sept 24: Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio has extended his support for the ‘Cauvery Calling’, a movement initiated by the Isha Foundation. “India’s rivers are severely endangered with many of its smaller rivers vanishing. Join Sadhguru and the Isha Foundation in their fight to preserve the Cauvery river,” the Titanic star said in a message on his Facebook page recently. The post was

Mysuru, Sept 24: The Hunsur Assembly constituency in Mysuru district, which had witnessed battle for Janata Dal (Secular) ticket in 2018 polls, is now facing almost a similar situation. The only difference is that in 2018 polls, Parajwal Revanna, who is now the Hassan MP, was the JD(S) ticket aspirant from Hunsur. However, his grandfather and party supremo HD Deve Gowda had handed the ticket to A

Bengaluru, Sept 24: Upright IAS officer Rohini Sindhuri, who was the secretary of the Karnataka Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board, was shunted out after she strongly resisted the attempts to misuse funds meant for upliftment of labourers, according to sources. 35-year-old Sindhuri was transferred by Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa led BJP government on September 20. Labour

Bengaluru, Sept 24: Onion prices in Bengaluru surged after the rain hits the supply and selling at Rs 60 per kilograms (Kg). "Onion price was Rs 20 per kg and now there is a shortage of supply due to rains and therefore we are getting onions at Rs 50-60 per kg. This is why we are selling it at a price of Rs 60 per kg. It will remain like this for two more months and will stabilize after that,"

Bengaluru, Sept 24: An impending public sector banks' strike from September 26-27 over the mega-bank merger scheme has been deferred by state-run lenders' unions after the government gave assurances to form a committee which will look into the issues arising out of the consolidation. The strike was deferred by the four officers' unions of the banking industry after their representatives met with