Karnataka

Bengaluru, Jul 20: Opposition leader in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly B S Yeddyurappa, who is also BJP State President, today alleged that the JDS-Congress government in the State has plunged into minority status and Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy has no moral right to continue in the office. Addressing a press conference at a Resort, where his party Legislators where BJP MLAs are staying for

Bengaluru, Jul 20: KPCC President Dinesh Gundu Rao has expressed confidence that the coalition government will win the Confidence motion moved by the Karnataka Chief minister H D Kumaraswamy which will reach its finality on July 22 . Strongly defending the lengthy discussion being going on in the Assembly over the motion he said that "the issue related to the Supreme Courts interim order on the

Bengaluru, Jul 20: The decomposed body of a 26-year-old research scholar at Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru was found in his hostel room last evening. The deceased has been identified as K V Pavan Kumar, a native of Andhra Pradesh, who was pursuing final year PhD from the Centre for High Energy Physics. Kumar, who had a special interest in black holes and quantum gravity, is

Bengaluru, Jul 20: Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday got transit remand of the I Monetary Advisory (IMA) scam accused Mohammed Mansoor Khan, who fled to Dubai after cheating nearly 40,000 investors. He will be produced before a special PMLA court in Bengaluru where the ED will seek custodial remand, sources said. The Special Investigation Team (SIT), which is probing the multi-crore

Bengaluru, Jul 20: Karnataka chief minister HD Kumaraswamy on Friday invoked the Bible while alleging that BJP used illegal means to poach legislators of the ruling Congress-JD(S) coalition to topple his government. “The only consolation is that there is coming a day when everyone will give an account of their lives as they stand before Almighty God on Judgment Day — with no lawyer, no lies, no

Bengaluru, Jul 20: After three ‘deadlines’ and 17 hours of debate, the JD(S)-Congress government got a breather as the assembly was adjourned till Monday when the vote of confidence will be taken up.CM HD Kumaraswamy appeared to have the last word as the governor’s third ‘request’ to wrap up the trust vote was dismissed amid a heated debate over whether he could intervene in House proceedings

Bengaluru, Jul 19: Karnataka assembly speaker K R Ramesh Kumar Friday said no MLA has sought protection from him amid allegations by the Congress that rebel lawmakers were being held captive by the BJP to bring down the government. The statement by the speaker in the assembly came after senior Congress leader H K Patil requested him to create an atmosphere conducive for the legislators who are

Bengaluru, Jul 19: As the Karnataka governor gave two deadlines to the chief minister to prove his majority, a 2016 Supreme Court verdict assumes significance in which it had held that it is not within the governor's domain to interfere with the functions of the Speaker as he is "neither a guide, nor a mentor" to the latter. In 2016, the apex court had held as unconstitutional the decision of

Bengaluru, Jul 19: Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Vala on Friday sent a letter to Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy to prove his government's majority in the assembly before 6pm on Friday. Vala set the second deadline for the floor test, after the first deadline went in vain on Friday without the assembly taking up the voting on the motion of confidence to decide the fate of his shaky government. "I

Bengaluru, Jul 19: Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy Friday asserted he would not misuse power to save his government, as he spoke on the confidence motion moved by him in the Assembly to decide the fate of his ministry. In his speech seeking the trust vote with Governor Vajubhai Vala asking him to prove his majority by 1.30 p.m Friday, Kumaraswamy charged that an atmosphere was created