NEW DELHI: The Congress on Monday said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is going to suffer huge defeats in the upcoming Assembly elections in Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. Expressing confident on wining the Assembly election in Karnataka, Congress MP Rajiv Satav told ANI that

BENGALURU:  Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today that the people of the Northeast have rejected the "politics of hate" by "unanimously" voting the BJP to power. The BJP on Saturday wrested Tripura, the Left bastion, and received an invitation to be part of the government in Nagaland, while Meg

Soon after the killing of journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh (55) outside her house in west Bengaluru on September 5 last year, K T Naveen Kumar, an activist of a right wing group called Hindu Yuva Sena, went incommunicado. When he resurfaced late in 2017 near his hometown Maddur in southern Karnatak

Bengaluru: North-East hardly matters in Karnataka politics. Actually, it never mattered. But Saturday was different. For the first time, workers of both the ruling Congress and the main opposition BJP were glued to television sets since morning closely watching the trends. As the BJP took a lead ove

The commission will collate taluk-level data of various indicators, including health, education and child protection. The commission has come up with a questionnaire that will have to be filled in by the zilla panchayat chief executive officers. After this, the data will be sent to experts for analy

In the trail of nabbing the assailants of slain scribe Gauri Lankesh, the Special Investigation Team handling stumbled upon a huge network of illegal country-made arms racket in northern Karnataka. A country made 7.65mm gun was used to kill Lankesh and MM Kalburgi. Such guns were widely available

BENGALURU (IANS) — A 37-year-old man arrested under the Arms Act for illegal possession of ammunition is being questioned in connection with the murder of Kannada tabloid Editor Gauri Lankesh in the city nearly six months ago, police said on Friday. “K.T. Naveen Kumar was taken into custody by a Sp

The Union government is planning to replace the system of providing food to children in anganwadis with direct benefit transfer, Union Minister for Women and Child Welfare Maneka Gandhi said in Belagavi on Thursday. She was speaking after inaugurating a paediatric intensive care unit, a human mil

Bengaluru Development and Town Planning Minister KJ George said on Thursday the Karnataka government was considering building a “Bangalore Square” at the junction of Brigade Road and Residency Road in the city, along the lines of Times Square in New York, The New Indian Express reported. George m

Bengaluru: The world’s largest solar park set up at an investment of Rs16,500 crore at Pavagada in Karnataka’s Tumakuru district was inaugurated by chief minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday. The 2,000 MW park, named as ‘Shakti Sthala’, spans across 13,000 acres spread over five villages and is a be

Karnataka government on Monday ordered an inquiry into the alleged special treatment given to former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa's aide V.K. Sasikala. Sasikala is serving a four-year sentence in a case of disproportionate assets. The inquiry seeks to probe the role of senior officials

The Southwestern Railways is considering the inclusion of Kannada – along with English and Hindi – on its tickets, a senior official familiar with the matter has said. “We printed some samples, but no decision has been taken as of now. A set procedure needs to be followed for such requests, and w

DAMMAM — Several measures have been taken by Karnataka state government for the welfare of Gulf Kannadiga NRIs and the rolling out the NRK cards for NRI Kannadigas will be the first priority of the authorities, said Dr. Arathi Krishna, deputy chairman of NRI Forum government of Karnataka at a felici

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,