Karnataka

Bengaluru, Aug 24: The City Civil Court here has dismissed Sandalwood actress Sruthi Hariharan’s petition seeking to quash the defamation proceedings filed against her by actor Arjun Sarja in the #MeToo case. Sruthi had submitted to the court that the case was registered by Arjun Sarja’s nephew without any GPO (General Power of Attorney) and hence the case should be dropped. Hearing the petition

Bengaluru, Aug 24: The police have cracked the murder of a model-cum-event manager who was killed near Kempegowda International Airport on July 31, and arrested a taxi driver for the crime. The accused, H.M. Nagesh, is associated with popular taxi aggregator Ola. He was taking 32-year-old Pooja Singh De, who hails from Kolkata, to KIA that morning, but had not logged on to the mobile app and was

Mangaluru, Aug 24: Samatha Sainik Dal general secretary Lolaksha has welcome the suggestion given by Mohan Bhagwath, the chief of RSS, to have a conversation between people who are in favor of ‘Reservation’ and against it. “We feel, initiating a comprehensive and multidimensional dialogue on ‘reservation’ is the need of the hour as we have variety of wrong notions about the concept of reservation

Bengaluru, Aug 24: Amidst growing dissidence among ministry aspirant BJP MLAs over Cabinet expansion in Karnataka, the party high top brass reportedly warned chief minister B S Yediyurappa to be ready for polls if he failed to settle portfolios. “The central leadership has made it clear to Yediyurappa that he should contain all dissident activities immediately and sort out the issues of allocation

Mysuru, Aug 24: Former minister and BJP leader A Manju on Friday said he had warned the Congress leadership, mainly former chief minister Siddaramaiah, against a tie-up with the JD(S) in the aftermath of hung assembly. “But I was overlooked by the party leaders even as Siddaramaiah kept quiet as the Congress high command had intervened. I’d warned that Congress will receive setback in case of a

Bengaluru, Aug 23: Former Karnataka chief minister HD Kumaraswamy on Friday said that he will respond to Congress leader Siddaramaiah's allegation on him and his family related to the collapse of the Congress-JDS government in the state, at an appropriate time. The retaliation from JDS leader Kumaraswamy came hours after Siddaramaiah blamed HD Dev Gowda and his sons --HD Kumaraswamy and HD Revanna

Madikeri, Aug 23: The death toll in recent heavy rains and flood in Kodagu district in Karnataka rose to 13 after one more body of a 50-year-old women was recovered from the landslide site of Thora village. Officials said on Friday that the body of Leela, who had gone missing during the landslides in Thora, which took place on August 9 was recovered yesterday. As many as six bodies have been

Bengaluru, Aug 23: Former Karnataka Chief Minister and Congress Legislative Party leader Siddaramaiah refuted the charges of the former Prime Minister and JD(S) National President H D Deve Gowda that he was responsible for the collapse of the JD(S)-Congress coalition government. Addressing newsmen here on Friday, the Congress leader, strongly denying that he was instrumental in toppling the

Madikeri, Aug 23: Those who lost their houses during the last year’s floods will be handed over key of new ones shortly, as most of the houses are ready for occupation Karnataka minister S Suresh Kumar said. Speaking to reporters he said he will speak to Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on handing over the keys of houses built for those whose dwellings were destroyed in last year’s floods and

Mangaluru, Aug 23: The elevation of Dakshina Kannada MP Nalin Kumar Kateel has not gone down well with some of the ambitious leaders of Karnataka BJP. Vijayapura City MLA Basanagouda Patil Yatnal, who had served as a union minister of state under Vajpayee, has expressed his resentment saying that there was no need for the party leadership to consult Yatnal on who should be the president. “Kateel