Karnataka

Mangaluru, Jul 14: Rice is the most important food crop of India covering about one-fourth of the total cropped area and providing food to about half of the Indian population. To create awareness of cultivation of paddy National Service Scheme (NSS) of Milagres College organised paddy farming programme recently at Neermarga. The paddy program was inaugurated symbolically by planting paddy in the

Ballari, Jul 14: Congress leader V S Ugrappa on Saturday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP national president Amit Shah were the masterminds behind Operation Kamala, to unseat the Congress-JD(S) coalition government in the state. Speaking to media persons here, Ugrappa said, “In an overnight operation, the BJP poached 10 Congress MLAs in Goa. It is making efforts to lure Rajya

Udupi, Jul 13: The murder case of a 15-month-old girl child in Udupi’s Kundapur taluk has taken a new twist with the police charging the victim’s own mother, Rekha Naik, with murder under Section 302 (for daughter’s murder), under Section 307 (attempt to murder son) and Section 309 against her suicide attempt. Rekha’s claim that her daughter was kidnapped was found to be false when she had

Mangaluru, Jul 13: The stage is set for this year’s Haj flights under the aegis of Karnataka State Haj Committee with the first flight departing for Madinah from Mangaluru International Airport (MIA) on July 17. This year’s Haj flights also mark the decennial year of move by the Union government to start this facility for Muslims undertaking this pilgrimage from this coastal city and third year of

Bengaluru, Jul 13: Karnataka Assembly Speaker K.R. Ramesh Kumar on Friday told the Supreme Court that the allegation by 10 rebel MLAs of the Congress-JD(S) coalition that he had made himself "scarce" and was unavailable on the day of their resignation is "fallacious". In an affidavit, he said that none of these MLAs submitted the resignation in person or by hand to him. "It is therefore patently

New Delhi, Jul 13: Five more rebel Congress MLAs from Karnataka moved the Supreme Court on Saturday against the Assembly Speaker not accepting their resignation. These MLAs are Anand Singh, K Sudhakar, N Nagaraj, Munirathna and Roshan Baig. They have sought impleadment in the already pending application filed by the 10 other rebels MLAs on which the hearing is scheduled for Tuesday. These 10 rebel

Bengaluru, Jul 13: As the Congress intensified efforts to woo back its disgruntled MLAs in Karnataka on Saturday, one of them hinted that he might consider withdrawing his resignation and also said he would try to persuade others. State Housing Minister and Hoskote MLA MTB Nagaraj, one of the 16 rebel Congress-JD(S) MLAs who resigned from the Assembly last week, dealing a blow to the coalition

Bengaluru, Jul 13: The BJP will press Karnataka chief minister H D Kumaraswamy to seek trust vote in the assembly on Monday, state BJP chief B S Yeddyurappa said on Saturday. The former chief minister asserted that the Congress-JD(S) coalition government has lost majority and its collapse was imminent. In a surprise move amid the existential crisis faced by his government, Kumaraswamy had on

Mysuru, Jul 13: Vice President Venkaiah Naidu today stressed the urgent need for revamping Education system, including School Education content. Speaking after laying foundation stone for Dr S Radhakrishna auditorium to be built at an estimated cost of Rs 12 crore in the Regional Institute of Education here on Saturday, he underlined that Teaching and learning should not be mechanical. There is a

Bengaluru, Jul 13: In a further setback to the JDS-Congress coalition government in Karnataka, two independent MLAs- R Shankar and H Nagesh, who have withdrawn their support to Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy led government, have requested the Assembly Speaker Ramesh Kumar to allot them seats in the opposition bench. In separate letters written to the Speaker they stated that they had withdrawn