Karnataka

Bengaluru, Jul 12: A popular maulvi, who allegedly misled people by advising them to invest in IMA, has been arrested by the Special Investigation Team probing into the multi-billion Ponzi scam. According to a release, the accused is Haneef Afsar Azeezi, a priest at the Masjid-e-Beparian in Shivajinagar. Azeezi had allegedly misused the religious faith of the people and encouraged them to invest

Bengaluru, Jul 12: BJP in Karnataka Friday decided to move its MLAs to a resort near here amid fears of poaching bid by the ruling Congress-JDS combine after Chief Minister H D Kumarasway announced he would seek a trust vote in the assembly despite the resignation by rebel legislators. Every one (BJP MLAs) felt that they should be together and come together to the assembly on Monday... I have said

Udupi, Jul 12: A 15-month-old girl child, who was reportedly kidnapped by a masked man from her house in Kumtiberu near Yedamoge in Kundapur taluk of Udupi yesterday, was found today. The police sources said that the dead body of the toddler was found nearby by her house on Friday afternoon. The toddler’s father Santosh Naik, who works as a security guard at a private pump house, was not at house

Bengaluru, Jul 12: Amid the ongoing political turmoil in Karnataka, the Congress and the BJP have decided to move their legislators to different hotels in the city after the Assembly proceedings on Friday. Congress MLAs will be lodged at Clarks Exotica Convention Resorts while those of the BJP will stay at Ramada Hotel in Bengaluru. The state unit of the BJP has booked 30 rooms for two days at the

Although there has been emphasis and hype over affordable housing after Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government came to power over five years ago, an RBI survey released on Thursday shows that affordability in the country's housing sector has deteriorated in the last four years. "Housing affordability worsened over the past 4 years as the house price to income (HPTI) ratio increased from 56.1

Thiruvananthapuram, Jul 12: UAE Red Crescent Authority will provide Rs 20 crore aid to Kerala to build housing complexes for flood victims. An agreement in this regard was signed between Red Crescent Deputy Secretary-General for International Aid Affairs, Fahad Abdul Rahman Bin Sultan, and Kerala Chief Secretary Tom Jose here on Thursday. The Red Crescent extended its help following a visit of

Bengaluru, Jul 12: Even as her husband and Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy sought permission for facing a floor test in Karnataka Assembly, Anitha Kumaraswamy said that she is confident that JD(S)-Congress coalition will prove its majority on the floor of the House. "We are confident of proving majority and all those MLAs who have resigned will definitely come back. I know they will

Chikamagaluru, Jul 12: Three people were killed on the spot and three others injured when a car in which they were traveling rammed against a wayside tree at Uddeboraganahalli Village in the District today. Police said on Friday that the inmates were traveling to Ballari after pilgrimage to Dharmastala when due to rash driving by the driver the mishap took place. The injured were admitted to

Bengaluru, Jul 12: Karnataka Legislative Assembly Speaker K R Ramesh Kumar today said that he has full respect to the judiciary and there is no reason for not following a Court order. His comments comes in the wake of the Congress-JDS Coalition government in the State facing a major crisis with 14 legislators tendering their resignation to their MLA seats and Supreme Court asking the Speaker to

Bengaluru, Jul 16: As his government teetered on the brink, Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy on Friday announced that he would seek a trust vote and sought time from Assembly Speaker K R Ramesh Kumar. The surprise announcement from the embattled chief minister came in the state Assembly, which met here for an 11-day session in the backdrop of the resignation of 16 ruling coalition MLAs