Karnataka

Bengaluru, May 16: State BJP president B S Yeddyurappa on Wednesday demanded that Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy should quit his post and allow veteran Congress leader Mallikarjuna Kharge to occupy it. Kumaraswamy, speaking at a function organised to mark the death anniversary of former chief minister N Dharam Singh in Chincholi on Tuesday, had said that Kharge should have been the chief minister

Mysuru, May 16: Against a backdrop of rifts within the JD(S)-Congress alliance, senior Dalit leader and vice-president of BJP’s Karnataka unit V Srinivasa Prasad said that the saffron party stood firmly behind the state party chief and former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa. The ongoing spat between former CM Siddaramaiah and chief of the Karnataka unit of the JD(S) Adagooru H Vishwanath has thrown

Bengaluru, May 15: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former minister Govinda Karajol has charged that former chief minister Siddaramaiah, who is also the Co-ordination committee chairman of the JD(S)-Congress coalition government was promoting Land Mafia in the state. Addressing a press conference here on Wednesday, the BJP leader accused that Siddaramaiah, claiming himself as a OBC

Bengaluru, May 15: Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy today directed all District Deputy Commisioners and Zilla Panchayat Chief Executive Officers to accord top priority to tackle severe drought conditions prevailed in most part of the State. In an interactive meeting, through Video Conference here on Wednesday, Chief Minister took stock of the severe scarcity conditions in over 24 districts

Mangaluru, May 15: Two days after a woman was found in the city, the Mangaluru police have cracked the case and arrested a couple. The body parts of Srimathi Shetty, a resident of Amar Alva Road in near Monkey Stand, was found inside a gunny bag near a shop off National Highway 66 near Kadri Park in the city on Sunday. On Tuesday, the police arrested Johnas Julin Samson (36) and his wife Victoria

Udupi, May 15: Former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda, who offered prayers at the Sri Krishna temple here on Tuesday, earned the praise of Vishwesha Tirtha Swami of Pejawar Mutt. Mr. Gowda called on the seer to wish him on his 88th birthday. Swami said Mr. Gowda had solved many problems of the country during his short tenure as Prime Minister. “Had Mr. Gowda continued as Prime Minister, he would

Hubballi, May 15: A flying squad of income tax department sleuths raided a room at the Cotton County Club on Gokul Road here late on Monday night and allegedly seized 11 portraits of late minister CS Shivalli, 50 golden bowls, seven voter lists of Kundgol assembly constituency and some campaign material. Following the raid, Gokul Road police booked one local resident, Chandrashekhar Gokavi, under

Mangaluru, May 15: In the wake of growing heatwave and acute water shortage in the region, a group of Muslims offered special prayers in Mangaluru today, seeking rain and prosperity. A considerable number of women also took part in the Salat-al-Istisqa held at Nehru Maidan, in the heart of the city under the open sky. The arrangements were made by the local unit of South Karnataka Salafi Movement

Bengaluru, May 15: The High Court of Karnataka has permitted Mohammed Nalapad Haris, son of MLA N A Haris, to go on a pilgrimage to Makkah in Saudi Arabia between May 15 and June 6. With this, it relaxed the condition imposed on him not to leave the jurisdiction of the trial court while granting him bail in a case related to the attack on a man at a pub-cum-restaurant in Bengaluru’s UB City last

Kasaragod, May 15: The Crime Branch team probing the twin murders of Youth Congress workers Kripesh and Sarath Lal at Kallyot, near Periye, here has arrested two local leaders of the CPI(M) here on the charges of helping the accused escape and destroy evidence. The arrested are CPI(M) Udma area committee secretary K. Manikandan and Periye local committee secretary N. Balakrishnan. They were