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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A 16-year-old girl studying at Morarji Desai Residential School on the outskirts of Jewargi town in Kalaburagi district, ended her life by hanging from a double-stack metal bed in her hostel room in the early hours of Saturday. She has been identified as Priyanka Mandrawad, resident of Shanti Nag

NEW DELHI: The first batch of about 10 Congress legislators from Gujarat - whisked away to Bengaluru last month to stem a string of damaging defections just ahead of the crucial Rajya Sabha elections - are expected to land in Ahmedabad airport around 4:30 am tomorrow. The remaining 33 lawmakers are

BENGALURU: Gujarat Congress legislators on Saturday ventured out for the first time from a private resort on the city outskirts where they have been camping for about a week and met the Karnataka Governor, besides visiting the state secretariat here. The Congress had sent its 44 legislators here on