Karnataka

Bengaluru, Jul 13: The special investigation team probing the alleged Ponzi scam run by I Monetary Advisory (IMA) recovered Rs 2.5 crore cash from IAS officer and former Bengaluru Urban deputy commissioner BM Vijay Shankar, who was arrested last week. According to a press release issued by the SIT, the recovered money includes the bribe amount Shankar took from IMA founder-owner Mohammed Mansoor

Bengaluru, Jul 13: Only 42.47 percent of the 1.92 lakh candidates who appeared for the SSLC supplementary examination in June this year have cleared the boards. While more than half of the candidates were unable to clear the examination, the performance this year did see a marginal improvement compared to the previous year when the pass percentage was 40.69%. An analysis of the results reveals

Ahmedabad, Jul 13: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday claimed that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) uses "money power" and "intimidation" to topple governments. He accused the saffron party of doing the same in Karnataka. Sixteen MLAs including 13 from the Congress, have resigned and two Independents have withdrawn support to the 13-month-old Congress-JD(S) coalition government in Karnataka.

Udupi, Jul 13: The conductor of a private bus was allegedly murdered by two men at Bairampally village in Hiriyadka police station limits in Udupi district early on Friday. The police have identified the deceased as Prashanth Poojary, 38. According to the police, Prashanth was sleeping in his house, when two men knocked on the door and called him out. Vijaya, Prashanth’s wife, heard them shouting

Bengaluru, Jul 12: Former Karnataka Chief Minister and Congress leader Siddaramaiah on Friday said that he is confident that the JD(S)-Congress will win a vote of confidence in the Assembly. "I do not want to disclose but I am confident that we will win the vote of confidence motion," he said referring to Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy's statement in the House that he was ready to face a floor

In yet another case of hooliganism in the name of Ram, a gang of miscreants, said to be activists of Bajrang Dal, thrashed a group of madrasa students and forced them to chant 'Jai Shree Ram' in Unnao of Uttar Pradesh. According to Imam of Jama Masjid in Unnao, the madrasa children were beaten by the miscreants while they were playing cricket after they refused to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’. They also

Bengaluru, Jul 12: A popular maulvi, who allegedly misled people by advising them to invest in IMA, has been arrested by the Special Investigation Team probing into the multi-billion Ponzi scam. According to a release, the accused is Haneef Afsar Azeezi, a priest at the Masjid-e-Beparian in Shivajinagar. Azeezi had allegedly misused the religious faith of the people and encouraged them to invest

Bengaluru, Jul 12: BJP in Karnataka Friday decided to move its MLAs to a resort near here amid fears of poaching bid by the ruling Congress-JDS combine after Chief Minister H D Kumarasway announced he would seek a trust vote in the assembly despite the resignation by rebel legislators. Every one (BJP MLAs) felt that they should be together and come together to the assembly on Monday... I have said

Udupi, Jul 12: A 15-month-old girl child, who was reportedly kidnapped by a masked man from her house in Kumtiberu near Yedamoge in Kundapur taluk of Udupi yesterday, was found today. The police sources said that the dead body of the toddler was found nearby by her house on Friday afternoon. The toddler’s father Santosh Naik, who works as a security guard at a private pump house, was not at house

Bengaluru, Jul 12: Amid the ongoing political turmoil in Karnataka, the Congress and the BJP have decided to move their legislators to different hotels in the city after the Assembly proceedings on Friday. Congress MLAs will be lodged at Clarks Exotica Convention Resorts while those of the BJP will stay at Ramada Hotel in Bengaluru. The state unit of the BJP has booked 30 rooms for two days at the