Karnataka Assembly Elections 2018 is one of the most keenly awaited electoral battles of 2018. Here the two national parties the Indian National Congress (INC) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will go head to head against each other and against the regional heavy weight Janta Dal Secular JD(S).

Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of being hypocritical in dealing with corruption. Gandhi made the statement at a campaign rally in Chikmaglur district in poll-bound Karnataka. “He comes here and speaks of corruption,” Gandhi said. “But his own par

BENGALURU: From the academic year 2018-19, minority educational institutions will be allowed to admit 25% students belonging to religious as well as linguistic minority communities, and they can hail from any of these minority communities. The state government has recently amended the rules in the K

In what raises questions of propriety and process, Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court Justice Dinesh Maheshwari has this month started an enquiry on a complaint directly forwarded to him by the Union Law Ministry against P Krishna Bhat, Principal District and Sessions Judge. Bhat had been cleared

BENGALURU: The state cabinet’s decision to accord minority status to Lingayats has triggered a debate in political circles, whether it will yield political dividends or boomerang on the Congress, amid allegations that the ruling party is driving a wedge in the community. The community constitutes 17

A 28-year-old teacher was kidnapped by three persons in a car near her apartment on Sunday night and assaulted before she was left on the roadside near Kasavanahalli in an unconscious state in the early hours of Monday. The victim, who sustained multiple injuries, has been admitted to St John's h

In a move that will have a bearing on the upcoming Karnataka Assembly elections, the Siddaramaiah-led Cabinet on Monday decided to write to the Centre to grant religious minority status to the Lingayat community. The decision came on the basis of the Nagamohan Das committee report and was taken afte

BENGALURU: The Janata Dal (S) headed by former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda is trying every trick in the book -- legal, persuasion, bluster, bargain -- to try to get its candidate B M Farook elected to the Rajya Sabha from Karnataka on March 23. There are four vacancies from Karnataka, after two

The investigation wing of the Income Tax Department will set up dedicated teams headed by deputy directors in each district of Karnataka in the run-up to the Legislative Assembly elections to curb the use of money power. Highlighting the department’s plans, B.R. Balakrishnan, Director-General, In

Karwar, Karnataka: Those who run from pillar to post to get their Voter Identity Card may not believe this. Getting that all important card is not an easy job in many parts of India. In election-bound Karnataka, the district administration in Uttara Kannada is diving into deep sea water to give o

BENGALURU: Bengaluru Railway Division went ahead and empowered its women staffers in the eyes of the world by setting up Karnataka’s first all-women railway station at Banaswadi on March 8. But just under ten days, the women staffers are terrified about working there. The reason: Let alone the ab

Union Minister for Agriculture Radhamohan Singh told the Parliament yesterday (16 March) that farmer suicides in Karnataka in 2016 have gone up by 32 per cent compared to the previous years, reports Deccan Herald. Quoting statistics from the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB), Singh said that 2,079

The Karnataka government, under the leadership of its Chief Minister, Siddaramaiah had set up a committee in July 2017 to examine if the state could have its own flag, but had received major flak from the central government. The following is from a blog post that Siddaramaiah has put up on Facebook,

MYSURU: Close on the heels of a recent letter from the president of IPS Officers Association to Chief Secretary K Ratna Prabha, office-bearers of Karnataka State Reserve Police Employees Association, Mandya, have written to both Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and the chief secretary alleging irregulari

BENGALURU, MARCH 15: Encouraged by the progress made in its ‘Automotive Safety Innovation’ project with Intel India – along with Mobileye, an Intel company – as its technology advisor, the Karnataka government has announced its commitment and vision in making Karnataka roads safer for its citizens.

The Uttar Pradesh Lok Sabha bypoll results will have no "direct" bearing on the coming assembly polls in Karnataka where the electoral dynamics is different, say political parties. Wilting under the combined onslaught of the SP-BSP, the BJP suffered an embarrassing electoral reverse, losing the G

Students in Mumbai and Bangalore – two of India’s wealthiest cities with a combined GDP of $410 billion, larger than that of Norway — are falling behind in the core areas of maths and language, scoring notably worse than their counterparts in rural areas, according to a new nationwide test. Despi

Bengaluru: In a counter-attack against the BJP ahead of the upcoming Assembly elections, the ruling Congress in Karnataka brought out a ‘charge sheet’ against the saffron party under the title ‘NAmage MOsa‘ (We have been cheated). In the charge sheet, the Congress accused its principal rival of ‘