Karnataka

New Delhi, Dec 11: The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill was cleared in the Rajya Sabha with125 votes in favour and 105 votes against the Bill. The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill to be sent to a select Panel for review, earlier during the session. Rajya Sabha negated the motion for sending Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 to Select Committee. 124 members voted against it while 99 members voted in its

Bengaluru, Dec 11: Apparently in anticipation of nation-wide rollout of NRC (National Register of Citizens), mosques in Karnataka have given a call to Muslims to keep their documents up-to-date. Imams and Moulvis have been appealing them to set right their documents if there are any anomalies in them. The Jamia Masjid in Bengaluru even opened a 'Citizen Centre' three months ago to assist people to

Mangaluru, Dec 11: In a heartening corollary to the legal maxim ‘Justice delayed is justice denied’, the Supreme Court has effectively intervened to ensure justice to the citizens by instructing Mangaluru City Corporation to stop delay and comply with its earlier order to issue Occupancy Certificate to the residential building Solitaire situated at Hat Hill in the city. Flat owners in the building

Ahmedabad, Dec 11: The Gujarat government on Wednesday submitted the final part of Nanavati Commission's report on Gujarat carnage after the Godhra incident in 2002, giving "clean chit to the then chief minister Narendra Modi and all his then colleagues and entire state machinery." Minister of State for Home Pradipsinh Jadeja said, "The commission has found that there was no larger conspiracy

Mysuru, Dec 11: JD(S) MLA G T Devegowda on Wednesday said that JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy should be cautious before making any statement. Devegowda was speaking to reporters, at Jayapura village, here. He said, Kumaraswamy, who served as Chief Minister for two times, had a good number of followers. "No other CM had followers like him. But, he is losing popularity because of his irresponsible

Bengaluru, Dec 11: An experts’ committee constituted by the BJP government of Karnataka to look into the demand of its MLA Appachu Ranjan, who sought removal of content related to Tipu Sultan from textbooks, on Tuesday recommended against the demand by urging the government to retain the content on Tipu. The committee, comprising academicians and historians, had submitted the report to the

Mangaluru, Dec 10: Former Deputy Commissioner of Dakshina Kannada, S Sashikanth Senthil, who resigned from the civil services recently, has taken on Home Minister Amit Shah over his “ideology of hatred”. In a strongly worded letter to Mr Shah, the former IAS officer stated that the “tabling of the Citizenship Amendment Bill in the Parliament and the approval of it marks the darkest day in the

Mangaluru, Dec 10: Karnataka Beary Sahitya Academy chairman Raheem Uchil has hailed the chief minister B S Yediyurappa as ‘pro-Beary’ as his government sanctioned Rs 6 crore for the construction the Beary Bhavan in the coastal city. Addressing a press conference at the Academy office today, Mr Uchil said the much the awaited Beary Bhavan will come up on a 25 cents plot at Neermarga in Mangaluru

Bengaluru, Dec 10: The dismal performance of the Janata Dal (Secular) in the December 5 byelections to 15 assembly constituencies in the state spells more trouble for the party as its fence-sitters from Tumkuru and Mysuru districts could now finally decide to leave it for greener pastures. The Janata Dal (Secular) party not only lost its bastion of Mandya to the Bharatiya Janata Party, but also

Bengaluru, Dec 10: The Congress party possibly reaped the benefits of extensive fieldwork done by the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) in the Shivajinagar assembly constituency. A win in the central Bengaluru segment was the only saving grace for the Congress party which was locked in a fierce battle with the BJP. While the Congress leaders did the fieldwork, the BJP carried out a high