Karnataka

New Delhi, Jul 14: A day after Ramlal was shifted back to Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), BJP President Amit Shah on Sunday promoted BL Santhosh as National General Secretary (Organisation) of the party. Santhosh, who has worked as "sangathan mantri" in BJP's Karnataka unit, was among four of the Joint General Secretaries (Organisation) of the party under Ramlal. Other three Joint General

Bengaluru, Jul 14: Karnataka Congress leader DK Shivakumar on Sunday said that his party is willing to settle the demands of the rebel MLAs and hoped they will support the coalition government. "The Congress party is ready to settle their demands. We are getting signals that they will save our government," he said. Citing the law, Shivakumar observed the MLAs were elected on Congress ticket and

Mangaluru, Jul 14: Ananth Ganapathi Pai, Executive Director, of Bharath Group of Companies, died of cardiac arrest, on Sunday, July 14, 2019 at Indore, Madhya Pradesh. He was 46. He was in Indore to attend a business conference and passed away in his hotel room at night. He is survived by his wife Suma Ananth Pai, daughter Anvitha, younger brother Anand G. Pai and two sisters, Roopa V. Nayak and

Bengaluru, Jul 14: Asserting that the coalition government in Karnataka had lost the majority, the state BJP on Sunday demanded the Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy immediately resign or seek a trust vote on Monday itself. "I demand that the Chief Minister if he is honest and cares for the democratic system, he should immediately resign or should move a motion seeking for trust vote on Monday itself

Bengaluru, Jul 14: The Congress on Sunday intensified efforts to persuade another rebel MLA Ramalinga Reddy to return to the party fold, in a desperate bid to save the Congress-JD(S) coalition government in Karnataka teetering in the wake of resignation of its legislators. Sources in the Congress told PTI that the party's state working president Eshwar Khandre and H K Patil have headed to

Bengaluru, Jul 14: Efforts by coalition leaders to mollify rebel Congress MLA M T B Nagaraj seem to have failed as he has flown to Mumbai Sunday, according to sources. Leaders of the Congress-JD(S) coalition held negotiations with Nagaraj on Saturday in a bid to woo him back to save the H D Kumaraswamy-led government in Karnataka that is on the brink of collapse. The Hoskote MLA had maintained

Mangaluru, Jul 14: Rice is the most important food crop of India covering about one-fourth of the total cropped area and providing food to about half of the Indian population. To create awareness of cultivation of paddy National Service Scheme (NSS) of Milagres College organised paddy farming programme recently at Neermarga. The paddy program was inaugurated symbolically by planting paddy in the

Ballari, Jul 14: Congress leader V S Ugrappa on Saturday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP national president Amit Shah were the masterminds behind Operation Kamala, to unseat the Congress-JD(S) coalition government in the state. Speaking to media persons here, Ugrappa said, “In an overnight operation, the BJP poached 10 Congress MLAs in Goa. It is making efforts to lure Rajya

Udupi, Jul 13: The murder case of a 15-month-old girl child in Udupi’s Kundapur taluk has taken a new twist with the police charging the victim’s own mother, Rekha Naik, with murder under Section 302 (for daughter’s murder), under Section 307 (attempt to murder son) and Section 309 against her suicide attempt. Rekha’s claim that her daughter was kidnapped was found to be false when she had

Mangaluru, Jul 13: The stage is set for this year’s Haj flights under the aegis of Karnataka State Haj Committee with the first flight departing for Madinah from Mangaluru International Airport (MIA) on July 17. This year’s Haj flights also mark the decennial year of move by the Union government to start this facility for Muslims undertaking this pilgrimage from this coastal city and third year of