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JD(S) ready to take on BJP, Cong.: Gowda

JD(S) national president H.D. Deve Gowda has said that his party was prepared to take on both the national parties — Congress and BJP — no matter whoever came to campaign for them. “We have the strength and confidence to face both the parties. We are not bothered about either Amit Shah or Rahul G

Rahul accuses BJP of letting down the poor

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday unleasheda scathing attack on the BJP for letting down the poor and marginalised sections while pleasing the rich with huge tax concessions and waiver of corporate loans. Addressing a massive party workers’ convention here, Mr. Gandhi criticised th

Amit Shah slams Karnataka govt, says it is corrupt, shameless

Bengaluru: Attacking the Karnataka government, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah on Saturday said in his public life, he has not seen any other establishment in the country “as much corrupt and shameless” as the one led by Siddaramaiah. In spite of several raids and arrests, the Co

Ab Ki Baar, BJP Sarkar in Karnataka: Amit Shah

Bengaluru: BJP president Amit Shah arrived here today on a three-day visit to Karnataka to re-energise the rank and file, and asserted that the party stood united and would return to power in next year’s assembly polls under the leadership of state unit chief B S Yeddyurappa. “Friends, our party

‘Government has no stand on separate religion status for Veerashaiva-Lingayat community’

Bengaluru: Amid growing differences among the Veerashaiva-Lingayat community leaders on the issue of separate religion status, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday said the government has no stand on the matter. The chief minister also said that a “misconception” is being created tha

High Court grants anticipatory bail to Kumaraswamy

The High Court of Karnataka on Thursday granted anticipatory bail to the former Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy in a case registered against him by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Lokayukta for alleged misuse of his office to show a favour to a mining company when he was the Chief Minist

30 seers demand minority religion status for Lingayat community

Over 30 heads of Lingayat mutts met here on Thursday and passed a five-point resolution to press ahead with the demand for minority religion status for the community on the lines of Buddhism, Sikhism and Jainism. Later in the day, the seers also presented a joint memorandum to Chief Minister Sidd

IIIT-Bengaluru to hone 10,000 students with software skills

Bengaluru: State-run International Institute of Information Technology-Bengaluru (IIIT-B) on Wednesday said it is starting a post-graduate diploma programme to train about 10,000 students and engineers in smart software skills. “The 11-month programme will provide hands-on learning to students an

Withdrawal of subsidy for cooking gas opposed

Activists of Shivamogga District Congress Committee (SDCC) staged a protest in the city on Tuesday opposing the move by the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance government at the Centre to withdraw subsidy for cooking gas used for household purposes. Addressing the protest meet

Congress has met 155 of 165 poll promises: CM

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday said the Congress would retain power after the next Assembly elections and neither B.S. Yeddyurappa nor H.D. Kumaraswamy would become his successor. He was addressing a gathering on the seventh death anniversary of former MLA K.M. Krishnamurthy in Kadur. He

Highest communal incidents in UP this year, Karnataka second on list

Bhatkallys News Bureau/ AJ Asadi New Delhi: In 2017 so far, 296 incidents of communal violence occurred in which 44 persons died. This data was communicated to Parliament by Home Ministry. According to the news published in Indian Express, in the country, there were 703 communal violence incid

Karnataka Minister appears before tax officials over seizures

Bengaluru: Karnataka Energy Minister D.K. Shivakumar and his brother D.K Suresh on Monday appeared before the Income Tax (IT) Department officials here over the seizures made at their residences during the three-day searches. “He (Minister) came to our regional office here with his brother on sum

IIT postgraduate held for allegedly Accessing Aadhaar Server without permission

Bengaluru: A postgraduate student of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, has been arrested for allegedly accessing the server of Aadhaar data provider UIDAI illegally via a mobile application. Abhinav Srivastava, 31, developed the app for enabling Aadhaar verification of users but without

Karnataka cabinet ordinance on reservation in promotions moving forward

Bengaluru: The Karnataka Cabinet today decided to bring in an amendment to a legislation pertaining to ‘reservation in promotion’ for Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe (SC/ST) government employees by promulgating an ordinance. Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister TB Jayachandra told reporters tha

Tolerance has to become an essential national virtue: M Hamid Ansari

Bengaluru :Tolerance has to become an essential national virtue to promote harmony transcending sectional diversities, Vice-President M Hamid Ansari on Sunday said. Tolerance is a pragmatic formula for the functioning of society without conflict between different religions and political ideologie

44 Gujarat Congress MLAs back home ahead of Rajya Sabha polls

Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India]: The 44 Gujarat Congress MLAs, who were in a hideaway in Bengaluru, returned home on Monday to cast their votes in the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls. All the MLAs, who were staying at Bengaluru’s Eagleton Resort, arrived at Kempegowda International Airport in the wee ho

Shivakumar apologizes for his mother’s statement accusing Siddaramaiah over I-T raids

Bengaluru: Karnataka Energy Minister D.K Shivakumar on Saturday apologized for his mother’s statement, in which she accused Chief Minister Siddaramaiah of being responsible for the Income-Tax raids on her son. In a statement, Shivakumar clarified that it was a mistake by her side, adding that she

Mangaluru police arrests absconding accused in Mumbai

The Mangaluru police on Saturday arrested in Mumbai Vinesh Shetti (46), an accused in a double murder case of 2003. Shetti, a native of Shirva in Udupi, was among the accused arrested by Mangaluru's Konaje police in 2003 in connection with murder of Venugopal Nayak and his driver Santosh near Mud