Narendra Modi government on Friday dropped the proposal of Karnataka’s demand for a separate flag and granting of minority status for Lingayats citing proposals were approved by the previous government. Now, the newly elected government led by Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy will be required to send

Mangaluru: The Mangaluru City Police arrested a person accused of duping lakhs of rupees from job seekers by promising them lucrative employment opportunity overseas. The arrested, Ravindra Shetty heads the Western Associate Institution located in Kerala Samaj building on KS Rao Road in the city.

Bengaluru: Close on the heels of reports that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee reprimanded DGP Neelamani Raju for making her walk a kilometre to the Vidhana Soudha, news has surfaced that the Director General of Police (DGP) has been transferred. Amidst confusing reports, Chief Minister

KOCHI: Two people suspected to be infected with the brain-damaging Nipah virus are under treatment in Karnataka, a health official said. The rare virus has killed at least 11 people in adjacent Kerala, where medical crews are scrambling to manage the spread of the deadly disease - and to minimise pa

Mangaluru: A fishing boat with a crew of 11 members was rescued by the Indian Coast Guard Ship (ICGS) Savitribai Phule after it got stranded near the Surathkal shore in the early hours of May 22. The ICGS was out on a routine patrol when it received a VHF call from the boat, St. Jude at 7.30 am.

Bengaluru: The election for the 11 seats of Karnataka Legislative Council will be held on June 11. After completing 6 years, B J Puttaswamy, D S Veeraiah, Raghunath Rao Malkapure, M B Bhanu Prakash of BJP, C M Ibrahim, M R Sitharam, Motamma, Sayyad Mudeer and K Govindaraj of Congress will be retiri

Bengaluru 23 May 2018: (Bhatkallys News Bureau) JD(s) state president HD Kumaraswamy sworn in as the new Chief Minister of Karnataka, along with G Parameshwara who sworn in as his deputy on 23 May at Karnataka Vidhan Soudha here in Bengaluru. Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Vala administered the oath

Bengaluru: The Congress has bagged 22 berths in HD Kumaraswamy’s Cabinet while the JDS will get to appoint 11 ministers, the two parties revealed on Tuesday after days of hectic bargaining over the power sharing formula in Karnataka. Ending speculation over the contours of government formation, C

Bengaluru: There is a strong fight between three senior Congress leaders Ramalinga Reddy, G Parameshwara and D K Shivakumar for the post of Deputy Chief Minister in the Congress-JDS coalition government in the state. According to the sources, Parameshwara strongly demanded the deputy chief minist

Bengaluru: Three management students were kidnapped by a gang of armed men on at 8 PM. The gang of five allegedly took the students from a restaurant in MSR Nagar, where they were having dinner to a house and tortured the trio, demanding a ransom of Rs 5 Lakh. The trio were assaulted with clubs a

Bengaluru: Amid allegations of Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) tampering, eight voter verifiable paper audit trail (VVPAT) machines were seized in northern Karnataka's Vijayapura district on Sunday evening. The machines, without batteries, were found from a labourer's house on the highway. Bengaluru

Udupi: A biker, who had bought his dream bike only two days ago was charred to death after his bike collide head-on with a car on NH-66 at Maravanthe in Kundapura. The intensity of the collision was such that the bike caught fire in seconds charring the rider to death on the spot. The deceased is

DMK on Saturday said democracy in Karnataka has been saved by the actions of the Supreme Court and greeted the leadership of the JD(S) and Congress after BJP strongman B S Yeddyurappa resigned as chief minister minutes before the scheduled trust vote. “...May this herald the coming together of se

HYDERABAD: A large group of MLAs belonging to the Congress and JD(s) reached Hyderabad in three buses on Friday morning amid fears of poaching by the BJP in an attempt to cobble up its numbers, especially in light of the Supreme Court ordering the floor test + to be held at 4pm on Saturday where the

BENGALURU: BJP leader and Lingayat strongman BS Yeddyurappa was on Thursday sworn-in as the new Chief Minister of Karnataka after the Supreme Court, in a rare overnight hearing, refused to stay the oath taking ceremony - a demand made by the Congress-Janata Dal-Secular combine. Yeddyurappa was ad

The Janata Dal (Secular)-Congress combine and the BJP have submitted the list of MLAs supporting them. The JD(S) and the BJP have also completed the process of electing the leaders of their respective Legislature Parties. The day has also seen the JD(S) accusing the BJP of indulging in horse-trad

Janata Dal (Secular) leader HD Kumaraswamy on Wednesday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of attempting to poach legislators from his party by offering them money, PTI reported. “If [Narendra] Modi is out to end corruption, then how do you explain the BJP coming to our MLAs and saying they will

A day after fractured mandate in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly elections, the Congress on Wednesday claimed that the BJP, which emerged as the single largest party with 104 seats, has been poaching Congress and JD(S) elected members to form a government through the back door. Senior Congress