Karnataka

Hubballi, Jan 18: A 30-year-old woman lost Rs 7.1 lakh to fraudsters after she unsuspectingly followed the instructions of an unknown caller. The victim is Sridevi Alur, a resident of Pavate Nagar, here. She filed a case in this regard at the Cyber Crime police station on Thursday. A few days ago, Sridevi received a call from a man who introduced himself as Vanruben. The gullible woman was

Bengaluru, Jan 18: Two days after BJP’s ‘Operation Lotus’ withered, the Congress will demonstrate its strength at the legislature party meeting on Friday. As three Congress MLAs continue to remain elusive, much like the two independents, BJP hasn’t lost all hopes. The CLP meeting, convened to put an end to ongoing talk of a few Congress MLAs joining hands with the BJP to topple the seven-month-old

Mangaluru, Jan 18: A group of fishermen from Uttar Kannada working in United Arab Emirates who had been held captive by Iran for allegedly straying into Iranian waters last year, have finally returned to their native district through Mangaluru International Airport. They were released by Iran earlier this month. According to sources, some among the 18 such fishermen from Uttara Kannada landed in

Bengaluru, Jan 17: With the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party’s plan to destablise the JD(S)-Congress coalition government in Karnataka come a cropper, all eyes are now on the Congress Legislative Party (CLP) meeting convened by Coordination Committee Chairman of the State government Siddaramaiah, on Friday. Congress party is in a buoyant mood after it faced rebellion within the party and the

Bengaluru, Jan 17: Eight legislators, who have been appointed as parliamentary secretaries, were sworn in by Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy here on Thursday. Those administered the oath of office were MLCs: K. Abdul Jabbar, Ivan D’Souza and K. Govindraju, and MLAs: Anjali Nimbalkar, Mahantesh Shivanand Kaujalagi, Roopakala M. Shashidhar, K. Raghavendra Basavaraj Hitnal and D.S. Holageri. Deputy

Bengaluru, Jan 17: Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy has promised to look into the long pending demand for providing internal reservation among the Scheduled Castes in the State. Speaking after inaugurating the Adi-Jambava Development Corporation, first of its kind in the State, here on Thursday, he said that “Government have an open mind to fulfill the demand for providing internal

Bengaluru, Jan 17: Hitting out at the BJP for making "futile attempts" to destabilise his government, Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy Thursday accused the saffron party of keeping its MLAs in "confinement" at a hotel in Gurugram. Grappling with the political turmoil triggered by reports that the BJP was luring Congress MLAs, Kumaraswamy rejected a charge by the saffron party that he was

Kottayam, Jan 17: Four nuns — who went on a public protest last year demanding arrest of Bishop Franco Mulakkal, who then headed the Roman Catholic Diocese in Jalandhar in Punjab — were on Wednesday handed transfer orders asking them to shift to different places but they declined to oblige. As the four nuns, now attached to a convent at Kuruvilangad near here, refused to move, the Mother Superior

Bengaluru, Jan 17: The public sector entity Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) designed and developed light combat helicopter (LCH) has successfully carried out air-to-air missile firing on a moving aerial target. "This is the first time in the country that a helicopter has carried out air-to-air missile engagement. None of the helicopters with the military services in the country has

Bengaluru, Jan 17: Opposition leader in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly B S Yeddyurappa, who is also BJP Karnataka unit President, today alleged that the story of 'Operation Lotus' was spread by ruling Congress-JDS leaders only to cover up the failures of the Coalition government which is yet to take off even after seven months of coming to power. Speaking to newsmen before leaving to Tamakuru