BELAGAVI (IANS) — An upbeat Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Monday asserted that the ruling party would win the Karnataka assembly poll and return to power again. “The Congress will win the assembly election in Karnataka again and return to power as our government fulfilled all the promises it

Facing a litmus test in a few months, the state government now has a new task cut out for itself in the coming days. While it is still struggling to fund its populist schemes, the state government will now have to make sure the lakhs of Kannadigas, who have begun to return to Karnataka, following Sa

The commission of inquiry headed by former High Court judge K.N. Keshavanarayana that probed the death of Deputy Superintendent of Police M.K. Ganapathi submitted its 320-page report to the State government on Monday. The commission was set up in July 2016 after Ganapathi was found hanging in a r

Comparing Karnataka with the rest of India in general and Gujarat in particular on different parameters, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah claimed that the State had emerged as a role model by achieving remarkable development and transparent governance in the current term of the Congress rule. He was spea

ATHANI (KARNATAKA): Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi calling him 'the great facilitator of corruption,' which, he said, was a bitter truth that BJP leaders cannot digest. Addressing a public rally here in the run-up to the assembly elections,

Bengaluru, Feb 26: A 28-year-old software engineer committed suicide in her flat on Saturday in Bengaluru, allegedly due to dowry harassment from her husband and in-laws. Rashmi Sathish lived in an apartment on Kempegowda Road. She texted her sister and told her that it was her last day. She also

While Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi was here in India this week and touched upon sustainable mobility and flying cars, Bengaluru seems to have taken the mobility leap to yet another level. Bengaluru’s much-awaited heli taxi service is expected to take off sometime next week. While the exact date is

Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Sunday continued his reach-out to Lingayats, a dominant community in the Mumbai-Karnataka region of northern Karnataka, saying the Indian Parliament was based on the values espoused by 12th century philosopher Basavanna. The philosopher is considered the founder of

Rolling out Congress' Mission 2019, party's president Rahul Gandhi reached out to country's women by sending a clear message that under his Raj, he wants more women to join the party. "I want to see 50 per cent women at AICC sessions, in Parliament and among chief ministers of state governments,"

Bengaluru: BJP's chief ministerial face B S Yeddyurappa and his disciple-turned-foe K S Eshwarappa are once again at each other’s throat after a brief ceasefire brokered by the party high command a few months ago collapsed. Eshwarappa, who is a protege of Yeddyurappa, is also from Shimoga distric

BENGALURU: Air quality in 11 cities and towns in Karnataka has been deteriorating, thanks to the increasing number of vehicles and unscientific waste management. According to the latest data collected by the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) from 19 urban habitations in the state, t

Soon after the Jharkhand government banned Popular Front of India (PFI) saying its members were "internally influenced" by the ISIS, Karnataka BJP demanded the Congress state government to initiate the same. Chief Minister Siddaramaih confirmed that the government is not contemplating of any such

BJP president Amit Shah has asked cadres to seek votes in the name of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and has also finalised party’s social media strategy for the Karnataka assembly election expected to be held in the next two months. Shah, whose two-day tour of the southern state ended Wednesday, h

Karnataka State Police Recruitment 2018 application process to hire 164 candidates for the post of Sub-Inspector (SI) has begun on the official website of Karnataka State Police (KSP) - ksp-online.in. The Karnataka State Police (KSP) is inviting online applications from eligible men and women to app

NEW DELHI: Congress president Rahul Gandhi will resume his campaign in Karnataka on February 24 for the Assembly elections there. During his three-day second leg of canvassing there, Gandhi will cover Belgaum, Vijayapura (Bijapur), Bagalkot and Dharwad districts from the Mumbai-Karnataka region o

New Delhi, Feb 20 () The government today approved a Rs 2,920-crore project for widening a section of national highway-275, connecting Bengaluru and Mysuru, in Karnataka. "The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has given its approval for six-laning

BENGALURU: Stung by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "10 per cent commission" jibe against his government, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday said PM Modi was, in fact, a facilitator of corruption. "You made common people stand in queues to deposit their money in the banks and then le

Pro-women initiatives in education, employment and even in the Police Department has been hailed as a positive move by the Chief Minister. With the aim of encouraging girls to complete their education, fees will be waived for all female students studying in government PU, degree and postgraduate col