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Bharatiya Janata Party leader K S Eshwarappa has claimed that Karnataka will be the 22nd state where the saffron party will register victory under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Amit Shah. Speaking to media persons on the sidelines of a Backward Classes rally in Belagavi, he said: “The 2018 Assembly election in the State is like a war for us, and the BJP is readying a strategy

Bengaluru Mar 25: State JD(S) president H D Kumaraswamy took to twitter on Saturday to take a swipe at Congress president Rahul Gandhi who is touring in the Mysuru region. Taunting Rahul (in a war of words), Kumaraswamy demanded the Congress leader to clear the air on the charges he had made against the JD(S) recently. Rahul, who visited Hassan as part of his election campaign recently, had

Mangaluru, Mar 24: Former JD(S) leader Zameer Ahmed Khan, who resigned as MLA to formally join Congress party has accused former prime minister H D Deve Gowda and former chief minister H D Kumaraswamy of fooling businessman B M Farookh. Farookh, who is chief general secretary of the JD(S) was filed by the party as its Rajya Sabha candidate twice in two years. In 2016 he was defeated as the rebel

Bengaluru, Mar 25: Hassan Deputy Commissioner Rohini Sindhuri Dasari has moved the High Court of Karnataka challenging the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) order, asking her to give representation to the Chief Secretary against her transfer order. The petition is likely to come up for hearing on Monday. The petition states that the CAT's order directing her to appeal to the Chief Secretary is

A Special Court of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in Kochi on Saturday, March 24, sentenced Yasmeen Mohammed Zahid, a native of Bihar, to seven-year imprisonment for her alleged role in terror recruitment. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 on her. The case pertains to the illegal migration of 15 persons from Kasaragod in Kerala to Afghanistan in 2016 for joining the Islamic State

Bengaluru, Mar 24: Ahead of assembly polls, the JD(S) today suffered a setback when four of its rebel MLAs resigned from the Karnataka Assembly, a day after cross-voting in favour of Congress' Rajya Sabha candidates. B Z Zameer Ahmed Khan, R Akhanda Srinivasamurthy, N Chaluvaraya Swamy and Bheema Naik submitted their resignations to Assembly Speaker K B Koliwad at his residence here. The MLAs are

Mangaluru, Mar 24: Four years after they were arrested by the police in connection with the murder case of Bajrang Dal activist Rajesh Poojary at Kalpane in Bantwal taluk, a local court has exonerated the three Muslim youths. Irshad (23), Imran (21) and Husain (23), residents of Malluru village, who had spent several days in police custody and judicial custody, were acquitted by the district

Bengaluru, Mar 24: The Jagatika Lingayat Mahasabha, on Saturday, said that Veerashaivas and Lingayats are two different entities and that it would launch an intensified agitation if the Centre fails to give its nod for the state Cabinet's decision to accord minority status to Lingayats. This comes a day after Akila Bharat Veerashaiva Mahasabha passed a nine-point resolution to keep the Veerashaiva

Mysuru, Mar 24: Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday continued his tirade against demonetisation and the Goods and Services Tax (GST) while saying that both did massive damage to Indian economy and job creation. “I think demonetisation was a mistake and should not have been done. Demonetisation and GST were massive damage to the Indian economy and job creation. I have a problem with the way

Mysuru, Mar 24: The All India Congress Committee (AICC) president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday kick-started the fourth leg of his Janaashirvaad Yatra in Mysuru region with a visit to Chamundeshwari Temple on the outskirts of Mysuru. Rahul arrived at Mandakalli Airport by a special plane at 9.15 am. The Congress president, joined by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and KPCC president G Parameshwara, headed