Karnataka

New Delhi, Sept 26: Senior Congress leaders Ahmed Patel and Anand Sharma on Thursday met party leader from Karnataka D K Shivakumar who is currently in the judicial custody in a money laundering case filed by the Enforcement Directorate. The two leaders were accompanied to the Tihar Jail, where Shivakumar is lodged, by the party's state unit member D K Suresh. ''We inquired about his welfare, we

Bengaluru, Sept 26: The Election Commission Thursday told the Supreme Court that it would defer the upcoming by-polls to 15 Assembly constituencies in Karnataka. The statement by EC's council came after a 3-judge bench headed by Justice N V Ramana said that it would decide on the batch of petitions filed by 17 disqualified MLAs of Karnataka challenging the order of former Speaker K R Ramesh Kumar

New Delhi, Sept 26: Congress leader DK Shivakumar on Thursday moved the Delhi High Court for bail in connection with the money laundering case. Shivakumar's legal team approached the High Court after his earlier bail plea was dismissed by a special court in Delhi on Wednesday. The special court had dismissed his bail plea stating that the Karnataka Congress leader is "not entitled to bail" at this

Bengaluru, Sept 26: Trouble is looming large over the BJP in the state with previously defeated party candidates expressing unhappiness against the state leadership for favouring the disqualified Congress and JD(S) MLAs families in allotment of tickets ahead of the upcoming by-polls. Party leaders from all fifteen constituencies, where by-polls are going to be held, have come out in opposition to

Kasaragod, Sep 26: Indian Union Mulslim League (IUML) has nominated its Kasaragod District President M C Kamarudheen as United Democratic Front (UDF) Candidate to contest in the bypoll from Manjeswaram Assembly Constituency on October 21. IUML State President Panakkad Sayd Hyderali Shihab Thangal on Wednesday announced the name of Mr Kamarudheen. The decision came after the opposition from the

Bengaluru, Sept 26: Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) raided the house of Bengaluru's former Police Commissioner, Alok Kumar on Thursday in phone tapping case. As many as 20 officers raided his house and started investigation on the background of recorded the audio copy. Last month Mr Kumar, who had approached the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) after he was shunted out from the police

New Delhi, Sept 26: Average wealth of an MLA in India has swollen more than ten times from USD 1.3 million in the year 2015 to a ₹13.6 million in 2018, founder of the Association for Democratic Reforms said, Prof Jagdeep Chhokar said in New Delhi on Wednesday. Professor Chhokar said that for an Indian MP, the average wealth in the year 2004 had stood at USD 280,639. However, the figure has grown

Mangaluru, Sept 26: The police have stepped up security measures at shopping malls across the city a day after an ugly communal brawl which led to the arrest of three persons including a minor boy. Yesterday, a handful of people had assaulted a man in a mall for saying 'India is a Hindu Nation and Muslims should not come here.' The incident of the video has gone viral on social media. The one who

There are a total of just 5,000 to 7,000 temples across Jammu and Kashmir, however, the government has reached a figure of 50,000 temples. How?, questions the Kashmiri Pandit Sangarsh Samiti. The body representing Kashmiri Pandits living in the valley, who have not migrated after militancy erupted, questioned the figures given by Minister of State for Home Kishan Reddy in a press conference in

Dharwad, Sept 26: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday took over the investigation in the 2016 murder case of BJP leader Yogesh Gowda. Gowda was murdered in Saptapur area in Dharwad on June 2016, allegedly over a political rivalry. State BJP government transferred the probe to the CBI on September 6 as Gowda family alleged Vinay Kulkarni, the then Minister and Karnataka Congress