Karnataka

Bengaluru, May 25: Congress Legislative Party leader in the Karnataka Assembly Siddaramaiah has convened a meeting of Legislators on May 29 to deliberate on the party’s drubbing in the Lok Sabha election. According to Party sources, Siddaramaiah has decided to convene the meeting in view of the reports of renewal of the 'Operation Lotus' by the opposition BJP to lure the Congress and JD(S) MLAs

Thiruvananthapuram, May 25: Kerala Coast was put on high alert following Intelligence reports that 15 ISIS terrorists set off to Minicoy island, Lakshadweep from Sri Lanka. The terrorist have been set off in a white boat to the island and the police were asked to prevent them entering Kerala coast, sources said here on Saturday. Coastal areas are under strict surveillance and patrolling was

Bengaluru, May 24: Former prime minister HD Deve Gowda on Friday dismissed as "not a big issue", his drubbing at the Lok Sabha polls. "As a former prime minister, I have been defeated twice. This is not a big issue," he told media persons here. The JD(S) leader who lost to BJP's G S Basavaraj from Tumakuru Lok Sabha seat by a 13,000 vote margin said his concern is to strengthen the base of his

Davangere, May 25: One person was seriously injured when an army-man opened fire at Bidarakatte Village in Honnali taluk of this district in Karnataka during the wee hours on Saturday over a love affair. Police said Devaraj, the army jawan, opened two rounds of fire on B M Prakash who was sleeping in his house. Devaraj was having an affair with Prakash’s daughter and later had opposed it, leading

Bengaluru, May 25: Actor Prakash Raj, who is contesting the 2019 Lok Sabha elections as an independent candidate from Bengaluru Central, on Thursday left a counting centre midway after learning that he was trailing at number three behind the BJP and the Congress. The National Award winning actor is pitted against Rizwan Arshad of the Congress and sitting BJP MP P C Mohan. A video posted by a

Bengaluru, May 25: The voters belonging to the Scheduled Caste and Tribe, who were a traditionally supporters of the Congress seems to have shifted their loyalty in the 2019 Lok Sabha election to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and it was evident as all the seven seats reserved for SC/ST was won by Saffron party candidates in Karnataka. The Congress which had won as many as five LS seats reserved for

Bengaluru, May 25: Karnataka Minister for Higher Education G T Devegowda today underlined that the recent debacle in Lok Sabha election was a big lesson but there is no threat to the Congress-JD(S) Coalition Government in the State. "It is a big lesson for us. All the leaders of the Coalition parties have accepted the defeat and we bow to the people’s verdict," he added. Talking to newsmen here on

Vijayapura, May 25: An octogenarian woman who fell into a 60-ft-deep well in Kallakavatagi village near here was rescued with the help of locals. 85-year-old Tangevva Gadyala, was rescued with the help of a charpoi. The woman suffered serious injuries and is said to be recovering. There was 8-feet water in the well which was filled through tanker when the woman fell into the well.

Mangaluru, May 25: Sujnan R Shetty, a student of Alva’s English Medium High School in Moodbidri, has now emerged another state topper in SSLC examination 2019 after the re-evaluation of two papers. When the results were announced on April 30, Shetty had scored 623 out of the total 625 marks. There was shortage of one mark each for a perfect score in Kannada and English. When the re-evaluation

Bengaluru, May 25: The BJP’s landslide victory in the Lok Sabha elections has triggered tremors in the Congress-JD(S) coalition, with Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy offering to resign on Friday. But the Congress, sensing the volatility of the situation, asked Kumaraswamy to stay put and continue. At an informal Cabinet meeting that Kumaraswamy had convened amid the atmosphere of unease, the