The Congress MLA from Jamkhandi and former Union Minster, Siddu Nyamgouda, died in a road accident early morning on Monday. He was 68. The MLA was travelling in his car along with friends when it hit a divider in Kaladgi village around 5 a.m. Sources said that he had arrived from Delhi to Goa and

BENGALURU: Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy on Sunday said he was at the 'mercy' of the Congress and not the 6.5 crore people of Karnataka, as his government had not received the full mandate which his party had sought in the assembly elections. Ahead of his Delhi visit to meet Prime Minister

Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy today said there are some “issues” on portfolio allocation with his party’s coalition partner Congress but it is not something that will pull down the government. He also said the expansion of his Cabinet would take place once state Congress leaders get an ap

BENGALURU: Fear continues to grip several districts of Karnataka, 25 days after a fake video on child-lifters first surfaced, pushing weapon-wielding mobs to attack people on mere suspicion. Though the police department has been reiterating that the video is fake, at least 90 innocents have been as

Narendra Modi government on Friday dropped the proposal of Karnataka’s demand for a separate flag and granting of minority status for Lingayats citing proposals were approved by the previous government. Now, the newly elected government led by Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy will be required to send

Mangaluru: The Mangaluru City Police arrested a person accused of duping lakhs of rupees from job seekers by promising them lucrative employment opportunity overseas. The arrested, Ravindra Shetty heads the Western Associate Institution located in Kerala Samaj building on KS Rao Road in the city.

Bengaluru: Close on the heels of reports that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee reprimanded DGP Neelamani Raju for making her walk a kilometre to the Vidhana Soudha, news has surfaced that the Director General of Police (DGP) has been transferred. Amidst confusing reports, Chief Minister

KOCHI: Two people suspected to be infected with the brain-damaging Nipah virus are under treatment in Karnataka, a health official said. The rare virus has killed at least 11 people in adjacent Kerala, where medical crews are scrambling to manage the spread of the deadly disease - and to minimise pa

Mangaluru: A fishing boat with a crew of 11 members was rescued by the Indian Coast Guard Ship (ICGS) Savitribai Phule after it got stranded near the Surathkal shore in the early hours of May 22. The ICGS was out on a routine patrol when it received a VHF call from the boat, St. Jude at 7.30 am.

Bengaluru: The election for the 11 seats of Karnataka Legislative Council will be held on June 11. After completing 6 years, B J Puttaswamy, D S Veeraiah, Raghunath Rao Malkapure, M B Bhanu Prakash of BJP, C M Ibrahim, M R Sitharam, Motamma, Sayyad Mudeer and K Govindaraj of Congress will be retiri

Bengaluru 23 May 2018: (Bhatkallys News Bureau) JD(s) state president HD Kumaraswamy sworn in as the new Chief Minister of Karnataka, along with G Parameshwara who sworn in as his deputy on 23 May at Karnataka Vidhan Soudha here in Bengaluru. Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Vala administered the oath

Bengaluru: The Congress has bagged 22 berths in HD Kumaraswamy’s Cabinet while the JDS will get to appoint 11 ministers, the two parties revealed on Tuesday after days of hectic bargaining over the power sharing formula in Karnataka. Ending speculation over the contours of government formation, C

Bengaluru: There is a strong fight between three senior Congress leaders Ramalinga Reddy, G Parameshwara and D K Shivakumar for the post of Deputy Chief Minister in the Congress-JDS coalition government in the state. According to the sources, Parameshwara strongly demanded the deputy chief minist

Bengaluru: Three management students were kidnapped by a gang of armed men on at 8 PM. The gang of five allegedly took the students from a restaurant in MSR Nagar, where they were having dinner to a house and tortured the trio, demanding a ransom of Rs 5 Lakh. The trio were assaulted with clubs a

Bengaluru: Amid allegations of Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) tampering, eight voter verifiable paper audit trail (VVPAT) machines were seized in northern Karnataka's Vijayapura district on Sunday evening. The machines, without batteries, were found from a labourer's house on the highway. Bengaluru

Udupi: A biker, who had bought his dream bike only two days ago was charred to death after his bike collide head-on with a car on NH-66 at Maravanthe in Kundapura. The intensity of the collision was such that the bike caught fire in seconds charring the rider to death on the spot. The deceased is

DMK on Saturday said democracy in Karnataka has been saved by the actions of the Supreme Court and greeted the leadership of the JD(S) and Congress after BJP strongman B S Yeddyurappa resigned as chief minister minutes before the scheduled trust vote. “...May this herald the coming together of se

HYDERABAD: A large group of MLAs belonging to the Congress and JD(s) reached Hyderabad in three buses on Friday morning amid fears of poaching by the BJP in an attempt to cobble up its numbers, especially in light of the Supreme Court ordering the floor test + to be held at 4pm on Saturday where the