Karnataka

Bengaluru, Jul 18: Senior Congress MLA Ramalinga Reddywithdrew his resignation late Wednesday evening, bringing brief respite to the beleaguered JD(S)-Congress coalition as it grappled with the fallout of the Supreme Court ruling on the party whip and anti-defection law. Within hours of the apex court saying the rebel MLAs “ought not” to be compelled to be part of House proceedings, JD(S) issued a

Mangaluru, Jul 17: The flight carrying the first batch of Hajj pilgrims from the undivided Dakshina Kannada district left Mangaluru International Airport on Wednesday. While the first flight carried 150 pilgrims, a total of 747 pilgrims from Chikkamagaluru, Dakshina Kannada, Hassan, Kodagu and Udupi districts will leave for Hajj. On Thursday, two batches with a total of 299 pilgrims will leave. On

Bantwal, Jul 17: A woman and her daughter were killed in a head-on collision between an ambulance and a goods truck, at Netlamudnur under the Vittal police station limits in Bantwal taluk on Tuesday night. The deceased were accompanying a family member to hospital. According to police, the victims are Parvathi, 76, and her daughter Seshamma, 45, who were residents of Sullia. The ambulance was

Bengaluru, Jul 17: A resurgent Bharatiya Janata Party's Karnataka unit on Thursday hailed the Supreme Court verdict on the joint petitions of the Congress-JD(S) rebel legislators for directing the assembly speaker to decide on their resignations and allowing them to skip the session on Thursday for the trust vote, to be moved by chief minister HD Kumaraswamy. "We welcome the verdict, which is a

Bengaluru, Jul 17: Coastal Karnataka’s Dakshina Kannada has quietly emerged as the number one district in entire India for hate crimes, according to Harsh Mander, noted activist and director of the Centre for Equity Studies, New Delhi. During a panel discussion in Bengaluru on Tuesday examining the growing intolerance in India, Mandar revealed that Karnataka is the second-biggest state for hate

Hyderabad, Jul 17: A BJP government is expected to take charge in Karnataka next week, party national general secretary P Muralidhar Rao claimed Wednesday. He said the BJP was confident that the Congress-JDS government, led by Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy, would lose the trust vote in the Legislative Assembly on Thursday. "You can expect," Rao told PTI when asked if a BJP government is expected

Bengaluru, Jul 17: Karnataka BJP chief BS Yeddyurappa Wednesday welcomed the order of the Supreme Court on the political crisis, asserting that it was a "moral victory" for the rebel MLAs, whose resignations have pushed the ruling Congress-JD(S) coalition to the brink of collapse. Yeddyurappa underlined that the political parties cannot issue a whip to the 15 rebel lawmakers, who have resigned

Bengaluru, Jul 17: Congress' chief troubleshooter in Karnataka, DK Shivakumar on Wednesday warned the Congress-JD(S) rebels of disqualification proceedings against them under the anti-defection law if they did not obey the whip and participate in the proceedings during the trust vote in the assembly on Thursday. "Some BJP friends are trying to misguide that whip is not valid. But the party can

Bengaluru, Jul 17: Hailing the Supreme Court direction on Karnataka political crisis, rebel Congress-JDS MLAs camping in Mumbai Wednesday said there was no question of going back on their resignations from the Assembly or attending the session. "We are happy with the decision of the Honourable Supreme Court, we honour it," rebel Congress MLA B C Patil said in a video released to the media, a day

Bengaluru, Jul 17: Karnataka Assembly Speaker K R Ramesh Kumar on Wednesday welcomed the Supreme Court decision, giving him the freedom to decide on the resignations of rebel MLAs, and said he would conduct himself responsibly in accordance with the principles of the Constitution. The Supreme Court said the 15 rebel Congress and JD(S) MLAs of the state's ruling coalition "ought not" to be