Karnataka

Bengaluru, Dec 30: The Karnataka Government is likely to order an inquiry into the death of young IPS officer Madhukar Shetty, a Karnataka cadre officer, who died in a Private Hospital in Hyderabad on Friday, allegedly due to breathing problem. Speaking to newsmen, after holding a meeting with the senior Police officers here on Saturday, Home Minister M B Patil said that “it is very sad that

Gadag, Dec 30: Six persons died and four others injured when two cars collided near Adavi Somapur village under Gadag Rural police station during early hours on Sunday. According to police one of the cars hit to the road divider at ring road near Adavi somapur village and hit the car. Six persons died on the spot and other four injured in this incident. Four persons including two Seriously injured

Bengaluru, Dec 30: Former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda on Friday said he too was an "Accidental Prime Minister" amid a political row over the movie with the same title. The film is based on Manmohan Singh's tenure as India's prime minister from 2004 to 2014 with the Congress alleging it was the BJP's propaganda against their party. The movie is based on the book of the same name by Sanjaya Baru

Karwar, Dec 30: When he began his day at work on Saturday, little did NWKSRTC driver K T Khanapur know that he will have to steer a bus with failed brakes and 40 odd passengers down the hairpin bends of Arbail Ghat, near Yellapur, about 80km from Karwar. With highland on one side and a gorge on the other, passengers survived the tense moments with an unlikeliest help - Iranna, driver of the

Kolhapur, Dec 30: In a major breakthrough, Kolhapur police on Friday arrested five youths from Belgavi district in Karnataka for their alleged involvement in the attack on a Sunday mass in Kowad village of Chandgad taluka, about 100km from here. "Preliminary investigation has revealed that the arrested suspects do not belong to a particular organization but are associated with different radical

Lucknow, Dec 29: Investigation into the coldblooded murder of Uttar Pradesh’s upright police inspector Subodh Kumar Singh has brought to light a shocking truth that he was brutally tortured and his thumb was chopped by the self-proclaimed saviours of Hindutva before he was shot dead in broad daylight at Bulandshahr earlier this month. According to police sources, the officer was hit with a sharp

Bengaluru, Dec 29: Former Prime Minister and JD(S) supremo H D Deve Gowda today said that his party will seek 12 Lok Sabha seats from Congress in Karnataka in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. In the 2014 Lok Sabha election JD(S) had won only two seats (Hassan and Mandya) of the total 28 seats it had contested. However the party came close second in three to four other seats. BJP and Congress had won

Bengaluru, Dec 29: Fissure likely to have appeared in the 6-month-old JD(S)-Congress coalition government in the State as the Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy chose to ignore AICC General Secretary K C Venugopal’s recommendation to allocate ministry of Ports to one of the newly inducted eight Congress ministers. Mr Venugopal, who is also party incharge of Karnataka affairs, after holding

Bengaluru, Dec 29: Karnataka Legislative Assembly Secretary S Murthy was kept under suspension on Saturday on graft charges. According to official source, the suspension was based on a report by a five-member Committee set up by Legislative Assembly Speaker Ramesh Kumar to inquire into allegations about Mr Murthy swindling funds during Winter Session held at Suvarna Soudha, Belagavi, in 2016-17

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