Mangalore : Hardly, a couple of days after union minister Veerappa Moily said that there was no question of inducting  former CM Yeddyurappa into the Congress, now JD(S) State President HD Kumaraswamy too has ruled out any such possibility of taking Yeddy into the JD(S) fold. Speaking to reporters in Mangalore on September 24, Monday, […]

Mangalore :  B Nagaraj Shetty, former chairman of the Coastal Development Authority, has confirmed that he would be formally joining the Janata Dal (S) on September 24 along with his supporters. He has also made it clear that his intention behind joining the JD(S) was to work for the progress of the district and to […]

Mangalore:   The Dakshina Kannada and Udupi district units of the Janata Dal(S) took out a padayatra in Mangalore and Manipal respectively in support of several of their demands. Memoranda were submitted to the governor through the Deputy Commissioners of the two districts respectively. Some of the demands enlisted are to revive the Brahmavar Sugar Factory […]

Mangalore : JD(S) appointed Ashwin Pereira as the state secretary of JD(S) youth unit said M B Sadashiv, district president of JDS. Speaking at the press meet held at Hotel Woodlands on August 28, Tuesday he said that Ashwin Pereira is a Diploma Engineering graduate in Electrical division and working as the managing director in […]

Mangalore : In Mangalore, members of the district unit of the Janata Dal(S)  staged a protest in front of the DC office in Mangalore on Tuesday to condemn the Morning Mist attack by Hindu Jagarana Vedike activists. The agitators led by senior party leader Amarnath Shetty were arrested by the police for violating prohibitory orders. […]

Bangalore:Opposition leader in Bangalore Rural Zilla Panchayat and JDS) member Binnamangala Krishnappa alias BML Krishnappa (58) was brutally hacked to death by the accomplices of notorious rowdy Bettanagere Seena  near Arishinakunte near Nelamangala on Wednesday night. Even one of the assailants was killed when Krishnappa’s body guards opened fire at the assailants. His car driver, […]

Puttur: Former Puttur MLA Shakuntala Shetty has said that the arrival of Anitha Kumaraswamy to the Varamahalakshmi Pooja arranged by Samarpana Mahila Vedike on July 27 has nothing to do with her joining the JD(S). Shetty said had she wished to join JD(S) then she would have done so when Kumaraswamy had visited her residence […]

Bangalore:  The JD(S) Muslim convention held at Bangalore recently in the presence of party supremo Deve Gowda and State JD(S) Chief HD Kumaraswamy is seen as a preparatory ground of the JD(S) for the forthcoming assembly elections. The JD(S) has decided to appease the minority vote bank well before other parties chose to do so. […]

Bangalore: A Muslim Convention organized by the Janata Dal(S) at the Palace Grounds in Bangalore on Sunday, seemed to be a hint that the JD(S) was gearing itself up for the impending elections and was all set to appease the minorities, well before any other party did so. Interestingly, the JD(S) supremo and former Prime […]

Bangalore: State BJP Chief Eshwarappa is in for trouble following his alleged statement at a function at Shimoga wherein he had hailed  primary and high school education minister Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri ‘for his efforts to saffonise the education system” and asked him to continue it. The JD(S) has now lodged a complaint against Eshwarappa in […]