Bengaluru : Senior Congress leader and former Karnataka chief minister SM Krishna resigned from the party on Saturday. The 85-year-old leader conveyed his decision to quit from the Congress Working Committee (CWC) in a letter submitted to party president Sonia Gandhi. Taken aback by his move, the Congress leadership has deputed party general secretary BK […]
New Delhi: Karnataka will have to release 3,000 cusecs of water per day to Tamil Nadu from September 21 to 30. The Cauvery Supervisory Committee on Monday decided the quantum of release in its seventh meeting here after analysing the reports submiited by both the states. The Supreme Court had on last Monday asked Karnataka […]
Mangaluru: In a quick possession by the Urwa police, they have nabbed three who were allegedly involved in child trafficking at Chilimbi on Wednesday. Jalil (43), his wife Mymuna of Monkeystand near Mangaladevi and Reshma (22) of Bhadravati, are taken to the custody by the police. Reshma found a child at Arasikere railway station, six […]
New Delhi: Marking an incremental transition in the Congress, party vice-president Rahul Gandhi held an informal meeting with Congress Working Committee members on Friday evening. Neither party president Sonia Gandhi nor Prime Minister Manmohan Singh attended the meeting. Party sources said the agenda was open and the conversation revolved around the manifesto for the general […]
New Delhi: With the Rajya Sabha putting its seal of approval on the Bill for creating Telangana amid bedlam, the birth of the 29th State of the Union is just a presidential signature away. The historic development was preceded by prolonged “labour pangs” beginning from July 30 last year, the day the Congress Working Committee […]
Hyderabad: Demanding the Congress leadership not to go ahead with the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, state ministers and legislators from Seemandhra Tuesday began day-long fast here. The leaders belonging to Congress party sat on fast at the statue of Mahatma Gandhi in assembly premises. Twelve ministers, 29 members of assembly and six members of council […]
New Delhi : YSR Congress leader YS Vijayamma requested Prime Minister Manmohan Singh not to take steps to divide Andhra Pradesh till issues like water sharing, revenue sharing and funding for new capital city are taken. “We request you not to take up the issue of division of the state until a satisfactory solution is […]
Moodbidri : A man named Sundar (55) from Kalladi-Jarigekatte in Kuppepadavu village, has been arrested on the charges of raping a mentally ill minor girl and making her pregnant. Residents of the area on coming to know about the brutal act, caught hold of Sunder stripped him, tied him to a tree and then reportedly […]
New Delhi : At a late night meeting with Seemandhra ministers in the Union Council of Ministers yesterday, Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh appealed to them not to insist on resigning over the issue of Telangana.He promised to discuss with Sonia Gandhi setting up of a high-level committee in the party to look into the […]
Mangalore: Senior journalist Shashidhar Bhat questioned whether the media would have gone overboard in portraying Nityanand issue had he been a Lingayat, Okkaliga or a Brahmin swami. Speaking at a function organized by the Journalists Study Centre in Mangalore to mark Kannada Press Day on June 30, Saturday, he pointed out how Lingayat seers even […]
