Karnataka

Shivamogga, May 28: Senior Bharatiya Janata party leader and former Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister K S Eshwarappa, strongly criticising the State Cabinet's decision to sell over 3666 acres of land to Jindal group at a throw away price, urged the Government to revoke its decision. Speaking to newsmen here on Tuesday, the BJP leader charged that the State government had decided to hand over huge

Bengaluru, May 28: Five members of a family, including a 14-year-old boy, were killed after an ambulance jumped the medianand collided with their car on KIA Expressway at Kogilu Cross, near Yelahanka, minutes past Sunday midnight. Dipankar Dey, 42, wife Swagata Choudhury, 42, their only son Druva Dey, 14, Swagata's mother Jayathi Choudhury, 65, and her elder sister Sujaya Choudhury, 46 - all from

Mangaluru, May 28: Nalin Kumar Kateel, MP-elect from Dakshina Kannada has sought the intervention of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) in the case of 35 youngsters from Mangaluru reportedly stranded in Kuwait for five months. In the letter, released to the media on Monday, Mr. Kateel said that the youth had been taken to Kuwait on the promise of jobs and good salaries. They have realised now

Bengaluru, May 28: Ahead of the crucial Congress legislature party (CLP) meeting on May 29 and in a desperate bid to save his government from falling, Karnataka chief minister HD Kumaraswamy on Monday met the confidante of dissident Congress leader Ramesh Jarkiholi, Mahesh Kumatalli, who is also an MLA of the party. Kumaraswamy's efforts to pacify the rebels came on a day when former Congress MLA

Bengaluru, May 28: The Karnataka government on Monday sanctioned a cash reward of Rs. 25 lakh to the members of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) investigating the murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh for the "successful detection and meticulous investigation". The SIT probing the killing of Gauri Lankesh named Sanatan Sansthan in its additional charge sheet filed before a city court. The SIT

Ameena, aged about 44 years, wife of Sayed K.H. Thirthahalli, has been suffering from medical condition for more than one year. She was later diagnosed with T.B.(Tuberculosis). She was advised to undergo medical procedure and hence she was admitted in Mangalore Father Muller Medical College Hospital last year for the medical treatment. She was in the hospital for 4 months for long treatment. The

Mangaluru, May 27: In a bid to spread the message of cleanliness as well as encourage creativity, artist Megha Mendon organised a five-day art camp for students on discarded bottles, after which an exhibition was put up here on Monday. Over 200 recrafted bottles were displayed at the exhibition and as many as 28 students and housewives participated in the camp. Mendon, an architecture student said

Bengaluru, May 27: A case has been registered against the editor of a Kannada daily and its editorial staff for publishing a report about trouble within JDS chief and former prime minister H D Deve Gowda's family after the Lok Sabha election drubbing. According to the complaint filed by Janata Dal (Secular) state secretary S P Pradeep Kumar, the newspaper, 'Vishwavani', had published a "false

Tumkuru, May 27: After the debacle of JD(S) and Congress in the Lok Sabha elections, senior Congress leader KN Rajanna on Monday claimed that the coalition government of JD(S) and Congress will collapse after June 10. "We would not have lost in Tumkur. We lost the election because of zero traffic minister (Deputy Chief Minister Dr G Parameshwar) we lost because of him. He will remain as the deputy

Bengaluru, May 27: Senior Congress leader and former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Monday said there will not be any expansion of cabinet or dissolution of Karnataka's Congress-JD(S) coalition government led by Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy after the poll debacle of both parties in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections. Siddaramaiah said that people of the state had given their mandate on