Karnataka

Bengaluru, Nov 13: Virtually bringing to an end to the electoral alliance with the Congress in Karnataka, former Prime Minister and JD(S) National President H D Deve Gowda, had announced that party will field its candidates in all the 15 Assembly seats where by-elections will be held on December 5. Addressing newsmen here on Wednesday, the former prime minister maintained that with today’s Supreme

Dubai, Nov 13: At least six construction workers, believed to be Indian nationals, were killed in Oman when they were buried at an excavation site of a water pipeline project due to heavy rains. The incident happened in the Seeb area of Muscat following heavy rain on Sunday, the Indian Embassy in Muscat said. "We are deeply saddened to learn about the incident involving death of six workers, who

Bengaluru, Nov 13: Former chief minister HD Kumaraswamy on Wednesday expressed dissatisfaction with the Supreme Court's verdict in the disqualified MLAs case. "I request that constitutional bodies have to take hard steps to save the democratic system. They have to ensure that those things do not occur again in the future. Some political leaders for their personal gains are misusing our

Bengaluru, Nov 13: Hours after the Supreme Court on Wednesday paved the way for the 17 disqualified Congress- JD(S) legislators to contest the December 5 bypolls for 15 seats in Karnataka, Deputy Chief Minister Ashwathnarayan C N said they will be joining the BJP on November 14. "They (disqualified legislators) have expressed interest to join BJP and have met our senior leaders. They have been

New Delhi, Nov 13: Congress general secretary KC Venugopal on Wednesday welcomed the Supreme Court's judgement regarding the disqualification of 17 MLAs in Karnataka and said that state Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa has lost the moral right to continue in his post. In a series of tweets, Venugopal said, "We welcome the Supreme Court judgement in the Karnataka disqualification matter which

Mangaluru, Nov 13: Italian flag cruise vessel Costa Victoria arrived at the New Mangalore Port, New Mangaluru Port (NMP) sources said. According to them, there were 1,928 passengers and 766 crew on board the cruise, which arrived on Tuesday night.

Kolar, Nov 13: Former Karnataka Speaker and MLA K R Ramesh Kumar on Wednesday expressed "sigh of relief" as the Supreme Court upholds its decision to disqualify 17 Congress- JD(S) MLAs. Speaking to the media at Srinivas Prasad in Kolar district he said that,' the decision of disqualification of MLAs was upheld and this would be a lesson to legislatures who ditched the party resulting in bringing

Bengaluru, Nov 13: Karnataka Congress unit chief Dinesh Gundu Rao on Wednesday said that the Supreme court verdict which upheld disqualification of rebel Congress-JD(S) legislators proved that BJP used unconstitutional means to fabricate a majority and alleged that the ruling party was behind the toppling of the coalition government. "Supreme Court has upheld the disqualification of all the 17 MLA

Bengaluru, Nov 13: Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Wednesday welcomed the Supreme Court decision to allow disqualified MLAs to contest polls, and termed it as verdict against the "conspiracy" of the then Speaker K R Ramesh Kumar and Congress leader Siddaramaiah. Expressing confidence that BJP would win all the 15 seats, where bypolls are scheduled to be held on December 5, he said the

New Delhi, Nov 13: H Vishwanath, Roshan Baig and Ramesh Jarkiholi, who are among the 17 MLAs disqualified by Karnataka speaker, on Wednesday welcomed the Supreme Court's verdict allowing them to contest the upcoming by-elections and expressed willingness to extend support to BS Yediyurappa-led BJP government in the state. The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the decision of the then Karnataka