Karnataka

Bengaluru, Jul 7: Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy will be flying back to India from the US on Sunday evening. Kumaraswamy had to cut short his visit due to the ongoing political turmoil triggered in the state in his absence. The JD(S) has called for a legislative party meeting today evening. Meanwhile, a meeting took place between senior Congress leader DK Shivakumar and JD(S) supremo HD

Mumbai, Jul 7: Congress leader and former Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah on Sunday said that there is no threat to the Congress-JD(S) government in Karnataka. “This clearly shows that BJP is behind all these defections. It is Operation Kamala...Everything is fine. Don’t worry. Govt will survive, there is no threat to the government,” Siddaramaiah was quoted as saying by news agency ANI

Bengaluru, Jul 7: As fresh trouble has gripped the ruling Janata Dal (Secular)-Congress coalition with the resignation of 11 lawmakers, senior BJP leader BS Yeddyurappa on Sunday said he is not related to the developments in any way. Grappling with the crumbling coalition, senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge, on the other hand, responded to the resignation of party strongman Ramalinga Reddy

Madikeri, Jul 7: Kodagu and the catchment area of the Cauvery in the district continued to receive heavy to very heavy rain for the fourth consecutive day on Sunday as Southwest monsoon gained vigour in the region. The water level at Bhagamandala and Triveni Sangama continued to rise steadily. For the first time during the season, low lying areas were marooned. However, the rainfall deficiency

As many as 10 MLAs of the ruling Congress-JD(S) are lodged in Mumbai in a five-star hotel amidst tight security arrangements. They arrived in Mumbai on Saturday and since then are staying at the Sofitel Hotel in the upscale Bandra-Kurla Complex. According to reports, they are expected to stay in Mumbai till 12 July, the opening day of monsoon session of Karnataka legislature. Tight security is

Bengaluru, Jul 7: Charging that the Central BJP leaders and the Union government was directly behind the destabilising the democratically elected government in Karnataka, Senior Congress leader Mallikarjuna Kharge expressed confidence that disgruntled Congress and JD(S) MLAs, will have a rethink on decision to resign to the Assembly. Speaking to newsmen here on Sunday, he said that “I am trying to

Bengaluru, Jul 7: The resignation by three JD(S) MLAs, within 48 hours of the party getting a new State president, has come as a shock for the party as it had not “expected such an extreme rebellion”. Although the dissenting voice of the former JD(S) State president A.H. Vishwanath was being heard for sometime, the sudden decision by other two MLAs — K.C. Narayana Gowda and K. Gopalaiah — to

Bengaluru, Jul 7: Thirteen months after its turbulent birth, the JD(S)-Congress coalition government in Karnataka was reduced to a minority on Saturday when 13 disgruntled MLAs — 10 Congressmen and three from JD(S) — tendered their resignations from the assembly and withdrew support to the HD Kumaraswamy-led government. If Speaker KR Ramesh Kumar accepts the resignations, the coalition’s number

Mangaluru, Jul 6: The Dakshina Kannada district police have arrested three more persons on the charges of sharing the obscene video clip of the gang-rape of a college student of Putur in Dakshina Kannada District. The group of college Hindutva activists, had gang-raped the teenaged girl in a car in the month of March and then threatened her against revealing the matter to anyone. Police said on

New Delhi, Jul 6: Charging the BJP of indulging in horse-trading in Karnataka by offering all sorts of temptations to it's MLAs there, Congress on Saturday condemned its attempts to bring down an elected government in the state. Talking to reporters after a meeting of senior Congress leaders, to discuss the political crisis in Karnataka, caused by the resignation of 11 MLAs, including eight from