Karnataka

Bangalore, Apr 2: Yet to finalise its candidates for the May 5 assembly polls, the Congress in Karnataka is being threatened with dissidence with supporters and opponents of probables holding demonstrations at the party office here. The demonstrations started Monday and continued Tuesday with indications that the situation in the party would worsen once the candidates for 224 constituencies are

Mangalore, Apr 2: The BJP national leadership is keenly following political developments in Karnataka and values the upcoming state Assembly elections with the same focus and intensity as the scheduled 2014 Lok Sabha elections, said D V Sadananda Gowda, former Chief Minister. He was speaking at a programme organized by the district BJP unit in Mangalore on Tuesday to felicitate him on being

Kannur April 2: Kerala's Forest Minister K B Ganesh Kumar handed over his resignation to Chief Minister Oommen Chandy late on Monday night after his estranged wife accused him of ill-treatment. Forty-six-year old film star-turned-politician was accompanied by his friend and State Labour Minister Shibu Baby John and other friends from the film industry including ace director Shaji Kailas and

Bangalore, Apr 2: The Congress party is being looked at many as a party capable of bringing in transparent administration. This party has been receiving outstanding acceptance from the voters who are now dismissing BJP for its failure to provide infrastructure, services to the common man along with transparent and stable government. Good administration A survey conducted by a private news channel

Mangalore, Apr 2: Amidst the fears about a reported imminent exodus of thousands of Indian expatriates from Saudi Arabia following the Nitaqat implementation, a long pending dream of these hard working people is all set to come true, finally. Milestone When the Air India Express' first direct flight from Mangalore to Saudi Arabia takes off on Wednesday, April 3, it will be an important milestone

Bellary: Apr 3: In an unusual confession Deputy Chief Minister K?S?Eshwarappa has said that Bharatiya Janata Party Government in Karnataka has been engulfed in corruption. Speaking at a party workers' meeting ahead of the Assembly polls, here Mr Eshwarappa, who recently quit the post of State BJP president said that in the past five years his party did both what it should have and what it should

Jeddah, Apr 2: Inspection rounds made by government officers to limit labor breaches have pushed people working under sponsors other than their own to submit their resignation from their jobs, resulting in the refusal of some employers to pay them their dues under the pretext they don't have sponsors. In a telephone call to Arab News, Khaled Abu Rashed, a lawyer, said: “From a legal point of view

Bangalore: April 2: The results of the II PU examination held in March will be announced before May 3, according to Chakravarthy Mohan, Commissioner of the Department of Pre-university Education. The valuation of answerscripts will begin on April 2. As per the statistics available with the department, as many as 6,11,864 students wrote the II PU exam this year. Of this, 4,70,088 are regular

Thiruvananthapuram, Apr 2: Kerala today asked the Centre to seek six months general amnesty from Saudi Arabia for expatriates, who would be affected by the new labour policy 'Nitaqat' being implemented in that country as part of localisation of jobs. Besides this, the state would, among other things, ask the Centre to see that those who return were not send through deportation routes, that would

Mumbai, Apr 2: Mumbai police has kicked up a controversy following its circular which says the women's wing of an Islamic organisation is "brainwashing and training girls for Jihad". The organisation has threatened legal action if no apology is tendered by the police. The "internal circular" said the Girls Islamic Organisation (GIO) of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, one of the country's largest Islamic