Karnataka

Bengaluru, Jan 14: Congress stalwart and Water Resources Minister D K Shivakumar has slammed Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy for being silent on BJP’s Operation Lotus and preferring not to expose the saffron party. “Kumaraswamy is, in fact, being “lenient” towards the BJP, despite being aware of its attempts to destabilise the coalition government,” he alleged. The minister also said that

Bengaluru, Jan 14: Faced with criticism of reducing JD(S) to a family enterprise, former prime minister and JD(S) supremo HD Deve Gowda on Sunday asserted the notion was wrong as the party helped many grow including ex-chief minister and Congress strongman Siddaramaiah. Blowing a bugle for the upcoming Lok Sabha election from his constituency and JD(S) stronghold of Hassan district, the 86-year

Bengaluru, Jan 14: Karnataka Minister and senior Congress leader DK Shivakumar said the BJP's ''Operation Lotus'' to topple the state's coalition government was for real, alleging that three Congress MLAs were camping in a hotel in Mumbai in the "company of some BJP leaders". "Horse trading is going on in the state. Three of our MLAs are in Mumbai in a hotel with some BJP MLAs and leaders. We are

Jan 14: Yash starrer KGF has become the first Kannada film to have got a commercial release in Pakistan. The film, which has earned over Rs 200 crore at the Box Office, has got a wide commercial release on the other side of the border. This is surprising considering South Indian films don’t find an audience in Pakistan, unlike the Gulf countries where the popularity of regional language films from

New Delhi, Jan 14: Does Congress veteran Mallikarjun Kharge face 'Sharad Pawar or Pranab Mukherjee' moment? Is BJP concerned with his unblemished and Dalit status? Cautious that Congress floor leader in the Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge could emerge a major 'player' in the post 2019 general elections, the BJP is planning to field former Karnataka Chief Secretary K Ratnaprabha against him from

Sharjah, Jan 13: All India Congress Committee president Rahul Gandhi on Sunday called on Sharjah ruler Sultan bin Muhammad Al-Qasimi and held a "cordial discussion" with him on a range of issues to strengthen the bilateral ties. Mr Gandhi was accompanied by Sam Pitroda, Indian Overseas Congress Chairman, Himanshu Vyas, AICC Secretary for Indian Overseas Congress, Madhu Goud Yaskhi, former MP, and

Bengaluru, Jan 13: The Bharatiya Janata Party, trying to destabilise the JD(S)-Congress coalition government in Karnataka is reportedly targeting to bring to its fold another Congress legislator, Umesh Jadhav, a second-time MLA from Kalaburagi district. According to BJP sources, the Congress MLA, who is said to be disappointed with the Congress leaders for denying him a Cabinet berth in the

Bengaluru, Jan 13: Senior Congress leader and the Water Resources Minister, D K Shivakumar, charged here today that BJP leaders are indulged in a large scale ‘horse trading’ and luring the Congress MLAs to destablise the Coalition government. Speaking to newsmen here on Sunday, the Minister said that “We have all the information about the discreet efforts being made by the State as well as Central

Chamarajanagar, Jan 13: The Karnataka State Wildlife Board has proposed to the Centre to notify Male Mahadeshwara Hills Wildlife Sanctuary (MM Hills) as a Tiger Reserve, and it will be the sixth in the state which has highest population of tigers in the wild. Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy, had said that it was heartening that the confluence of the Western and Eastern Ghats that had been under the

Bengaluru, Jan 13: Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy has announced that he will fulfill his Rs 46,000-crore loan waiver commitment made to farmers "completely" in the Congress-JDS coalition government's second budget that he is scheduled to present on February 8. The farm loan waiver scheme would be implemented in one stroke with required allocation in the budget instead of completing the