Karnataka

Mysuru, July 20: Karnataka Minister for Tourism Sa Ra Mahesh on Saturday defended his statements made in the Session yesterday against JDS rebel MLA A H Vishwanath and challenged him to prove the allegations are false in the Session. Speaking to reporters here on Saturday, Mahesh defended his statements made during motion of confidence in the Session yesterday. “Let Vishwanath come to the Session

Bengaluru, Jul 20: With the Confidence motion tabled in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly is expected to reach to its finality on Monday, the Congress leaders are making an all-out efforts to reach out to the rebel MLAs, who are staying outside the State, since last one week. According to party sources, former Chief Minister and Congress Legislative Party leader Siddaramaiha, AICC General

Mangaluru, Jul 20: The weekend train services have been between this coastal city and the state capital have been cancelled following fresh landslides along railway tracks between Shirivagilu and Subramanya Road Railway station. Satish, Senior Divisional Operations Manager and Sr PRO South Western Railway Mysuru Division, said that the railways has decided to cancel /partial cancel/ divert train

Puducherry, Jul 20: Senior Congress leader and Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanasamy Saturday charged the Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Vala with misusing powers and authority in the current political development in the state. Addressing reporters here, Narayanasamy said the Governor without any justification was intervening in the authority and powers of the Karnataka Chief Minister. Also

Bengaluru, Jul 20: Opposition leader in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly B S Yeddyurappa, who is also BJP State President, today alleged that the JDS-Congress government in the State has plunged into minority status and Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy has no moral right to continue in the office. Addressing a press conference at a Resort, where his party Legislators where BJP MLAs are staying for

Bengaluru, Jul 20: KPCC President Dinesh Gundu Rao has expressed confidence that the coalition government will win the Confidence motion moved by the Karnataka Chief minister H D Kumaraswamy which will reach its finality on July 22 . Strongly defending the lengthy discussion being going on in the Assembly over the motion he said that "the issue related to the Supreme Courts interim order on the

Bengaluru, Jul 20: The decomposed body of a 26-year-old research scholar at Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru was found in his hostel room last evening. The deceased has been identified as K V Pavan Kumar, a native of Andhra Pradesh, who was pursuing final year PhD from the Centre for High Energy Physics. Kumar, who had a special interest in black holes and quantum gravity, is

Bengaluru, Jul 20: Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday got transit remand of the I Monetary Advisory (IMA) scam accused Mohammed Mansoor Khan, who fled to Dubai after cheating nearly 40,000 investors. He will be produced before a special PMLA court in Bengaluru where the ED will seek custodial remand, sources said. The Special Investigation Team (SIT), which is probing the multi-crore

Bengaluru, Jul 20: Karnataka chief minister HD Kumaraswamy on Friday invoked the Bible while alleging that BJP used illegal means to poach legislators of the ruling Congress-JD(S) coalition to topple his government. “The only consolation is that there is coming a day when everyone will give an account of their lives as they stand before Almighty God on Judgment Day — with no lawyer, no lies, no

Bengaluru, Jul 20: After three ‘deadlines’ and 17 hours of debate, the JD(S)-Congress government got a breather as the assembly was adjourned till Monday when the vote of confidence will be taken up.CM HD Kumaraswamy appeared to have the last word as the governor’s third ‘request’ to wrap up the trust vote was dismissed amid a heated debate over whether he could intervene in House proceedings