Karnataka

Belagavi, Jan 31: Congress in Karnataka have plans to bag maximum number of Lok Sabha seats from Karnataka, in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Health minister Shivanand Patil, informed here on Thursday. Speaking to newsmen, after holding a consultative meeting with the party leaders in Belagavi district, he said that Congress-JD(S) coalition government is doing well in the state and the combine will

Mandya, Jan 31: Infosys Foundation, the philanthropic arm of IT major Infosys, on Thursday announced its plans towards conservation and restoration of the Panchakalyani, the largest ancient lake in Melukote, in the Mandya district of Karnataka. The Foundation will restore the lake by cleaning the tank, removing silt and waste deposit, ensuring structural and chemical conservation of the

Bengaluru, Jan 31: Amidst the reports about the growing rift between the Coalition partners, JD(S) and the Congress, former Chief minister Siddaramaiah, met AICC president Rahul Gandhi, and reportedly petitioned that the JD(S) is not showing the spirit of ‘coalition dharma’. According to reliable party sources, Siddaramaiah, who had rushed to New Delhi on Wednesday following an urgent meeting with

Bengaluru, Jan 31: Amid reports of cracks in the Congress-JD(S) alliance in Karnataka, state Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy has asked everyone to have trust in him. Kumaraswamy had earlier threatened to step down from the Chief Minister's post as he got infuriated over certain remarks made by some legislators of the ally Congress. He had said that they were 'crossing the line. 'I'm telling you all

Bengaluru, Jan 31: Gearing up for its maiden manned space mission ''Gaganyaan'', ISRO unveiled its Human Space Flight Centre in Bengaluru on Wednesday. The space agency is gearing up for the human spaceflight programme by 2021-end that is likely to include a woman astronaut. Gaganyaan is the "highest priority" for ISRO in 2019, according to the space agency, and the plan is to have the first

Bengaluru, Jan 31: The HD Kumaraswamy cabinet on Wednesday decided to implement the reservations in promotions Act, despite the Supreme Court directing the government to maintain “status quo” on the issue. This effectively means the government will go against the SC directive not to carry out any changes to the present seniority scale of the government employees. Krishna Byregowda, rural

Bengaluru, Jan 31: A day after his son, chief minister HD Kumaraswamy, threatened to step down in exasperation, JD(S) supremo Deve Gowda asked the Congress leadership to rein in its state leaders who were not allowing the CM to work. Gowda said Siddaramaiahhas been holding a grudge against him for over two decades for failing to become CM and was behind the current tension between the coalition

Bengaluru, Jan 31: The government informed the high court on Wednesday that the July 2017 order, virtually reserving the chairman’s post of Karnataka State Minorities Commission(KSMC) to the Muslim community, has been withdrawn. The order had been issued by the secretary to minority welfare, Haj and wakfs department. Taking the communication on record, a division bench headed by Justice Ravi

Bengaluru, Jan 30: Hundreds of women walked over 400 kms to reach the state capital Wednesday demanding a blanket ban on the sale and consumption of liquor in Karnataka. Beginning their march from Raichur on January 19, the women under the banner of Madya Nishedha Andolana converged to the city via Peenya and gathered at the Malleswaram ground here. The police, however, prevented them from going

Kannur, Jan 30: The police on Wednesday confirmed that four persons belonging to Kannur were killed in Syria. According to police, four out of the 10-member group, including women and children of two families here, who joined the banned IS late last year, were killed in an encounter in Syria recently. Police said, according to information received from the Central Agencies, two young women and