Bengaluru: Chief Minister Siddharamaiah rebutted the media about the alleged Congress strategy of soft Hindutva approach for the upcoming assembly elections. Thus, asserted he belonged to Hindu community and believes in secular ideology. "I oppose the brand of Hindutva that BJP practices. I am de

New Delhi: The Karnataka State Minorities Commission has constituted a panel of seven members to study Lingayat community’s demand for a separate minority religion status. The panel to be headed by retired High Court judge HN Nagamohan Das, and it has to submit a report within four weeks. “The

BENGALURU: The BJP today distanced itself from union minister Anantkumar Hegde's remarks that the party will change the Constitution and remove the word "secular" from it. "The party doesn't want to get involved with what Hegde has said. What he spoke about is not an issue for us," BJP spokesperson

Bengaluru: Four teams have been set up to look for a 29-year-old techie hailing from Bihar reported missing from here for over a week, police said on Monday. “We have formed four teams to search for Kumar Ajitabh, who left his house at Whitefield in the city’s south-east suburbs on December 18 mo

Hubli (Karnataka): Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said on Sunday that the Opposition’s demand for ballot over Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) was a mere excuse for their “certain defeat”. “It is obvious to make excuses and blame EVM when defeat is certain. It is the same EVM

Bengaluru: A software techie from Panta is reportedly missing in Bengaluru since Monday after he went on to meet a prospective buyer for his car sale. Ajitabh Kumar, 29, was working with British Telecom. He left home around 6.30pm on Monday his friends said. According to his friends, Ajitabh had

BENGALURU: Brand Bengaluru got its own logo on Sunday - the tagline 'Bengaluru - Be U' (be you) is expected to build the city's image on the global stage. The city is the first to gets its own identity badge. Selected from 1,350 entries, the logo aims to signify Bengaluru's cosmopolitan culture,

New Delhi [India]: Responding to Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s remark on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) having ‘leased out’ Hinduism, the latter claimed that one who idolises Tipu Sultan cannot support Hindus. “Siddaramaiah is one who idolises Tipu Sultan, who caused a lot of harm to

Bengaluru (Karnataka): Karnataka Chief Minister Siddarmaiah has called for a meeting with his Maharashtra and Goa counterparts “to arrive at a negotiated settlement” on the long-standing Mahadayi water dispute, as suggested by the Mahadayi Water Dispute Tribunal on September 1, 2016. In a letter

Bengaluru : Taking a cue from Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy has said that the state government is planning to frame a law enabling capital punishment to rapists of minor girls. “The Karnataka Government is planning to frame a law enabling capital punishment to rapists of

Bengaluru (Karnataka): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday castigated its Madhya Pradesh MLA Panna Lal Shakya for questioning the patriotism of cricketer Virat Kohli for preferring Italy over India to get married. BJP leader S.Prakash said it is not Shakya’s business to question Kohli’s

Bengaluru: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday attached bank deposits worth Rs 5.34 crore of ILC Industries Ltd Director K. Somasekhar in an illegal mining case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002. “Investigation under the PMLA revealed that Somasekhar was in possession of

Bengaluru (Karnataka): A wheelchair-bound passenger on Tuesday claimed he was not allowed to board the Air India flight from Bangalore to Kolkata on December 17. The passenger, Kaushik Majumdar, who is a researcher at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), alleged harassment by the airline’s gro

New Delhi: The Ministry of Culture which had requested five states to provide land for opening of regional centres of National School of Drama (NSD) has till date received response from only one state, Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma said on Monday. According to the minister, only Karnataka govern

Bengaluru (Karnataka): The Indian Air Force bid adieu to the MI-8 helicopter, also known as the PRATAP in the phasing out ceremony held today at the Air Force Station, Yelahanka in Bengaluru. MI-8s served for 45 years after their induction into the Indian Air Force helicopter inventory in 1972, a

BENGALURU: Indicating that the 2018 assembly polls could “most likely” be his last election, Karnataka Chief Minister and Congress leader Siddaramaiah today said he would be contesting to stop the BJP from coming to power. “Most likely the forthcoming assembly election will be the last election f

Bengaluru (Karnataka): The Karnataka High Court on Friday scraped 2014 amendment stating that both sides of a cigarette packet should have 85 percent statutory warning on the packet. Earlier in 2016, the Supreme Court had reminded tobacco makers of their duty to society and to carry pictorial war

BENGALURU: Karnataka police registered a case against BJP MLA T. Raja Singh Lodh following his inflammatory speech during a rally in Yadgir district on Thursday evening. During his address at the Yadagiri’s Virat Hindu Samavesh convention, Raja Singh, who represents Goshamahal Assembly constituen