Karnataka

Bengaluru, Jan 15: Amid allegations of the BJP trying to poach the MLAs of the ruling coalition in Karnataka, former prime minister and JD(S) supremo H D Deve Gowda on Tuesday asserted that there was no threat to the government headed by his son H D Kumaraswamy. "It is not in anybody's hands, including the media. However much you cry hoarse, nothing will happen because it is in the hands of God

Bengaluru, Jan 15: New political turbulence in Karnataka has travelled from Bengaluru to Delhi as the BJP flew its 104 lawmakers to the capital and then a luxury resort in neighbouring Gurgaon, alleging that Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy was trying to split its ranks. "The Janata Dal Secular (JDS) wants to break BJP lawmakers. We are united. We will stay in Delhi for one or two days," said BJP

Bengaluru, Jan 15: Brushing aside any threat to the H D Kumaraswamy-led Karnataka dispensation after two MLAs withdrew support, Congress general secretary K C Venugopal Tuesday said the coalition government would continue despite the BJP's "ugly and dirty" horse-trading attempts. Venugopal alleged that the MLAs of the Congress-JD(S) ruling combine were being offered a "lot of things" by the BJP to

Bengaluru, Jan 15: Two Karnataka legislators announced withdrawal of their support to the Congress-JD(S) coalition on Tuesday . Independent H Nagesh, who represents the Mulbagal constituency and Karnataka Prajnavantha Janata Paksha’s (KPJP) Ranebennur legislator R Shankar, a former minister in the HD Kumaraswamy cabinet, have written to Governor Vajubhai R Vala about their decision to withdraw

Bengaluru, Jan 15: Union Minister and Senior BJP leader D V Sadananda Gowda has said that it was Congress-JDS Coalition Government in Karnataka that is in need of major 'Operation' to bring it out of slumber, and not the BJP. Talking to newsmen here on Tuesday, he said, "since coming to power the Coalition government headed by Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy is ailing and failed to meet the

Malappuram, Jan 15: Kanakadurga, who created history by entering the Sabarimalatemple recently, was assaulted by her relatives when she returned to her husband’s home on Tuesday. According to police, Kanakadurga was beaten up by her mother-in-law by a wooden plank. She was taken to the Government District Hospital at Perinthalmanna in the Malappuram district of Kerala after she suffered minor

Udupi, Jan 15: It’s just a case of hoping, a relative of the one of the missing fishermen said. Hope is tenacious but it is starting to fade now for the families of seven fishermen on board Suvarna Tribhuja boat that ventured into sea from Fisheries Harbour on December 13 and went missing off the Goa coast on December 15. Two fishermen on the boat are from Udupi, the remaining five are from Uttara

Bengaluru, Jan 15: A 34-year-old woman was cheated of over Rs 25 lakh by a man she met on a matrimonial website. According to police, Rekha (name changed), a resident of Sarjapur Road, came across Ronith Malhotra on the portal in January 2018. Ronith claimed he was a software engineer in Delhi. Within a few days, the two decided to tie the knot. In February, he flew down to Bengaluru and met the

Sabarimala , Jan 14: Thousands of Lord Ayyappa devotees on Monday witnessed the auspicious ‘makaravilakku’, the ritualistic ‘deeparadhana’ (aarthi) held at Ponnambalamedu, the hill facing the shrine, as part of the annual festivities. Braving heavy rush, the pilgrims queued up for hours to have a glimpse of Lord Ayyappa, carrying the ‘irumudi kattu’ (the traditional bundle a devotee brings to the

Bengaluru, Jan 14: Central Crime Branch (CCB) police have nabbed 16 people who had indulged in allegedly leaking question papers of written examination for Police Sub-Inspector (Civil) post Scheduled for Jan 13 and seized from them Rs 41.20 lakhs cash, Cheques for Rs 3 lakhs, Laptop, Printer, Car. Police said on Monday that on getting definite clue about the possibility of leakage of question