Karnataka

Newsroom, Mar 28: Women empowerment is a lip service for our national and regional parties. If you need any data to prove it, then look no further than Karnataka: There are just three women candidates in the poll fray from three major parties of the state for next month’s Lok Sabha polls. The BJP, Congress and JD(S) have indeed given ‘equal representation’ to women, albeit only in that each has

Tumkur, Mar 28: A meeting of Janata Dal(Secular) (JDS) and Congress leaders has decided to hold the joint meeting of their workers across the parliamentary constituency from April 1. A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting here on Wednesday, which was attended by Deputy Chief Minister Dr G Paarmeshwar and state Cabinet Minister SR Srinivas, said Ramesh Babu, a JD(S) leader. Babu said: “We

Bengaluru, Mar 28: The District electoral officers have been issued notification for the remaining 14 Lok Sabha seats, which goes to poll on April-23 in the second and final phase poll in Karnataka. With the issuing of the notifications, the process of filing nomination papers for the second phase for the Chikkodi, Belagavi, Bhagalkot, Vijayapura, Kalaburagi, Raichur, Bidar, Koppal, Ballari

Bengaluru, Mar 28: A team of Income Tax officials conducted raids at the residence of JD(S) leader and Karnataka Minor Irrigation Minister C S Puttaraju and his nephew in the early hours of Thursday, PTI reported. The development comes a day after Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy raised fears about possible raids on Congress and JD(S) leaders in the state allegedly on the directions of Prime

Udupi, Mar 28: A woman and a girl slipped into the Swarna River near Baje village in Udupi district and later died on Wednesday. Pushpa (47), wife of Krishna, resident of Kukkehalli, had gone to wash clothes in the river near Baje along with her neighbour’s daughter, Ashwini (12). But Ashwini accidentally slipped into the river. Pushpa went to rescue her from drowning and fell into the water

Hassan, Mar 28: Within hours after Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy expressed fear that “revenge politics” was afoot through “misuse of Central agencies”, the Income Tax Department carried out searches and seizure operations at multiple locations targeting JD(S) leaders late on Wednesday night. Sources confirmed that multiple teams carried out searches in various parts of the Hassan, Mandya and

Bengaluru, Mar 28: Known for his hardline Hindutva stance, Bengaluru South BJP candidate Tejasvi Surya’s own tweets are now being used by his political opponents to campaign against him. Though the 28-year-old leader deleted his several old controversial tweets including those express his views against women soon after his name was announced by the BJP, screen shots of some of his tweets are going

Bengaluru, Mar 28: Bharatiya Janata Party candidate from Bengaluru South Tejasvi Surya has found himself at the centre of a controversy after a woman broke her silence and accused him of abusing her for five years. Amidst controversy over BJP’s decision to field this 28-year-old hardline Hindutva activist from the prestigious constituency, a businesswoman, Dr Som Dutta, took to Twitter to share

Udupi, Mar 28: P Amrit Shenoy, member of All India Congress Committee, who is contesting as an Independent candidate in the Udupi-Chikkamagaluru parliamentary constituency, said here on Wednesday that he entered the poll fray to send a message to the Congress high command that it should not take party workers for granted. Addressing presspersons, Mr. Shenoy said that it was the Congress which was

Mangaluru, Mar 28: Three people have been arrested on charges of operating an online cricket betting business from a rented room near the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation bus stand in Mangaluru, police sources said Wednesday. Another member of the gang managed to escape during the raid at the premises, the sources said. Police also seized Rs 62,700 and four mobile phones. The group had