Karnataka

Bengaluru, Apr 23: Sri Lankan authorities have confirmed the death of at least eight tourists from Karnataka including JD(S) workers in the serial blasts that ripped through Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday. Soon after the Sri Lankan foreign ministry announced details of Indian victims, the Karnataka government on Monday evening confirmed the death of six tourists and minutes later, External Affairs

Bengaluru, Apr 22: The fining of nomination papers for by-elections to Chincholi (SC) and Kundagol Assembly segments in Karnataka began today with issue of the notification by respective District Electoral Officers on Monday. While, the by-election for Chincholi Assembly seat was necessitated due to resignation of Congress member Umesh Jadhav, who has quit the party and joined BJP to contest

Mangaluru, Apr 22: As a part of a centuries-old tradition, hundreds of devotees here performed a spectacular fire ritual, to pay reverence to the Goddess Durga at a temple situated in the Kateel town, around 30 kilometers from here. Bare-chested, dhoti-clad men threw fire torches at each other in the compound of the Kateel Durga Parameshwari temple here in the unique age-old fire fighting ritual

Bengaluru, Apr 22: Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy has announced the deaths of four Janata Dal (Secular) workers in Sunday's serial blasts in Sri Lanka, saying External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj had confirmed they were among the hundreds killed. The deaths of Hanumantharayappa and Rangappa were confirmed earlier today by the Indian High Commission in Colombo. "I am deeply shocked at

Bengaluru, Apr 22: Stage is all set for the second and final phase of Polling for remaining 14 Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka on April 23. The first phase Polling for the 14 Lok Sabha seats were held succesfully on April 18. More than 2.43 crore voters, including 1.22 Crore Male, 1.20 Crore female and 2022 voters will decide political fortunes of 237 candidates in the fray. Over 28,022 Polling

Bengaluru, Apr 22: Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu has expressed anguish over terror attack on Churches and Hotels in Sri Lanka on Sunday and called for a UN mandated Comprehensive Convention on International terrorism. ‘’The continued terror attacks in various parts of the world is highly condamnable and called upon international agencies such as the United Nations to conclude deliberations on

Mangaluru, Apr 22: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former Karnataka Minister C T Ravi today said that fall of the Congress-JD(S) Coalition government in the State is imminent as Congress leaders have hatched a conspiracy to bring down the one-year-old alliance government in the State. Addressing a press conference here on Monday, the BJP leader claimed that senior Congress leaders

Karwar, Apr 22: The decision of several local Congress stalwarts in BJP bastion Uttara Kannada to refrain from campaigning for Janata Dal (Secular) candidate in the constituency has given rise to speculations among people. In spite of the lack of developmental works in the constituency, political pundits believe that the continued Modi wave and local Congress leaders’ reluctance to back JDS

Bengaluru, Apr 22: A day after “rebel” Congressman Ramesh Jarkiholi held a meeting with his supporters and asked them not to campaign for the Congress, his brother and Karnataka Forest Minister Satish Jarkiholi met party workers in Gokak on Sunday to counter the perceived damage. He also hinted that Mr. Ramesh might resign from his Assembly membership and seek re-election as a Bharatiya Janata

Bengaluru, Apr 22: A team of the Crime Investigation Department led by DySP Ravishankar has arrived in Raichur to investigate the suspected rape and murder of Madhu, a 23-year-old engineering student. The burnt body of the student, who had gone missing on April 13, was found hanging from a tree in a farm in Raichur districton April 16. Following massive protests by students, the government handed