A couple in their 80s lost their lives when their car collided with a vehicle carrying Sri Vishwesha Teertha of Pejewar Mutt of Udupi on the Chintamani highway near Bengaluru. The accident occurred around 7.45 am. While four others sustained injuries in the accident. In the accident, Ramakrishnaiah, aged 85,[Read More…]
A search operation has been launched by police, a year after an Omani woman went missing along with her three minor children from the Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru. Pinjarewale Sabera Shaikh Husain, aged 30, landed at the airport on September 5, 2017, from Oman. Her children included two girls[Read More…]
Following the massive defeat of Bhartiya Janta Party in Karnataka by-polls, BJP’s central leadership is planning to remove BS Yeddyurappa from Karnataka BJP President post, a media report claimed on Thursday. In view of Lok Sabha elections 2019, Anant Kumar Hegde, BJP Member of Parliament (MP) from Uttara Kannada in Karnataka[Read More…]
Bengaluru: In a shocking incident, a woman killed her daughter and commits suicide with her parents on Monday in the Vidyaranyapura police station area. The deceased have been identified as Sudharani 29, her daughter Monika 6, and her parents Janardhan 52, and Sumitra 45. Police have recovered a suicide note[Read More…]
Kanakpura: A young leader of Janata Dal-Secular and state general secretary of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe wing of the ruling party in the state was brutally killed by unidentified persons in Kanakpura police Station region on Monday evening. Deceased RT Raja Gopal 42, from Kasaba Hobli, was the state General[Read More…]
Bengaluru: Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Ananth Kumar died on Monday at a private hospital here due to multiple organ failure, a BJP spokesman said. He was 59. “Kumar passed away at around 3 a.m. at Shankara Cancer Hospital three weeks after he was admitted on return from the US[Read More…]
Bengaluru: Karnataka’s former BJP Minister and mining baron Gali Janardhana Reddy was arrested and jailed for allegedly shielding two accused persons in a multi-crore Ponzi scheme, a police officer said on Sunday. “Based on the evidences and statements, Reddy has been arrested and charged with criminal conspiracy,” Additional Commissioner of[Read More…]
While addressing the media in Gadag, former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said that state Congress leaders will soon discuss the cabinet expansion plan with the senior leaders and higher authorities of the party. Only when the big wigs give the green signal, new ministers will be appointed in the cabinet. When questioned[Read More…]
BJP state president BS Yeddyurappa said that the party will hold a major protest in the state on Friday (November 9) against JDS-Congress coalition government’s plan to celebrate the birth anniversary of 19th-century warrior King Tipu Sultan, because it is against people’s sentiments. ”We are opposing Tipu Jayanti celebration. Nobody[Read More…]
In an alleged caste killing case, a three-month pregnant woman identified as Renuka Shakarappa Nayak, was stabbed to death in hone in Karnataka’s Vijayapura district. Investigators in charge of the case suspect that Renuka’s mother, Marevva, allegedly killed her daughter as she had married a man who did not belong to the same[Read More…]
The incumbent Congress and Janata Dal-Secular (JDS) alliance in Karnataka on Tuesday registered its victory in two assembly seats and two Lok Sabha seats in the by-polls. The BS Yeddyurappa led Karnataka Bharatiya Janata Party managed to win only one Lok Sabha seat, Shimoga. In Jamkhandi, Congress contestant Anand Nyamgouda[Read More…]
The Shimoga Lok Sabha by-poll, which witnessed a clash among the sons of three former Chief Ministers – BY Raghavendra of the BJP, son of BS Yeddyurappa, Madhu Bangarappa of the JDS, son of the late S Bangarappa and Mahima Patel of the JDU, son of late JH Patel. The[Read More…]
The much anticipated Karnataka by-polls, which provided a boost to incumbent JDS- Congress coalition. Bypolls in Ramnagara assembly, where the wife of Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy, Anitha Kumaraswamy, who contested under the banner of JDS-Congress coalition won by a big margin of 1.05 lakh votes. Anitha Kumaraswamy is the first[Read More…]
The much anticipated Karnataka by-polls, which provided a boost to incumbent JDS- Congress coalition. Bypolls in Bellary (ST) Lok Sabha constituency in Karnataka was held on Saturday and around 67 per cent voter turnout was recorded in the district. Earlier, it was speculated that, whoever wins, will win only after[Read More…]
Karnataka By-Polls Results: Congress workers celebrate victory in Karnataka By-Elections 2018 by breaking coconut following a ban on bursting crackers from Court in the state. With Congress leading in four seats out of five in Karnataka elections, celebrations started at the Congress party office in Bengaluru. Since the court has[Read More…]
The ruling Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) and Congress alliance is upbeat on retaining their hold in the Saturday’s five by-elections ahead of vote counting. Karnataka bypoll results 2018 LIVE updates: People have rejected BJP. It is also a rejection of Modi govt. Bypoll results will send a message to the entire[Read More…]
Bengaluru: Voting was underway on Saturday for the by-election to three Lok Sabha and two Assembly seats in Karnataka, an Election Commission official said. “Voting began at 7 a.m. on a moderate pace amid tight security,” the official told IANS here. By-election is being held in Bellary (reserved), Mandya and[Read More…]
Former Prime Minister and National President of the Janata Dal Party, HD Deve Gowda declared to offer an unconditional support to Congress President Rahul Gandhi for the Prime Ministerial post after the Lok Sabha elections 2019 on Tuesday. Deve Gowda announced this while addressing a campaign rally in support of[Read More…]
In a major political development, BJP Ramanagara candidate L Chandrashekhar, who left the party over issues with BJP senior leaders including BS Yeddyurappa, has rejoined Congress on Thursday. “None of the BJP leaders bothered to campaign for me and I felt I was being made a sacrificial goat in this[Read More…]
Congress leader and minister of health education & irrigation in Karnataka government DK Shivakumar on Wednesday stated that, Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) has no interest in seeking the vote in the name of Prime Minister Modi, as state BJP leaders have understood, PM Modi is unfit to become the Prime[Read More…]
Bengaluru: Union minister for parliamentary affairs HN Ananth Kumar, who had come down to the city a few days ago after undergoing treatment in London, continues to be in a “precarious” condition according to sources in the BJP. The chemicals and fertilizers minister is currently undergoing treatment at a private hospital[Read More…]
Indian Railways train, Tippu Express is expected to have its name changed to Maharaja of Mysuru as the Bharatiya Janata Party pitch in for a name change says BJP National Spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi. Earlier, BJP had opposed the celebration of Tipu Jayanthi in Bengaluru in 2016 and the same issue[Read More…]
For the first time in the country, Election Commission will provide pick-up and drop service facility for the differently-abled voters to enable them exercise their franchise without difficulty during the November 3 bypolls in Karnataka. Chief Electoral Officer in a statement on Monday said that, “In a step towards an inclusive[Read More…]
This disabled man forgot about his leg injuries and disabilities when he saw a break on the railway track and ran uncontrollably for 6 kms to alert Indian Railways of the upcoming danger on Saturday. The 53-year-old daily wage labour, Krishna Poojari in Udupi of Karnataka has nerve issue in[Read More…]
Sister Jesme, who recently left the Congregation of Mother of Carmel – an indigenous Religious Congregation has shared her horrific account at a literature festival held in Bengaluru. She talked about an incident in which a priest asked her to strip. She blamed the church of not standing up for[Read More…]