Bengaluru: Bharatiya Jantha Party is plotting a strategy to agitate against the state government of Karnataka. It is reported that rather than trying to pre-empt downfall of the government, it wants to carry out the movement by focusing on failure of the government on various fronts, corruption, differential treatment, overlooking of development activities etc. Yeddyurappa, […]

Udupi: As many as eight fishermen who went deep sea fishing have gone missing off Goa coast since December 15. It is gathered that Chandrashekhar, Damodar, Lakshman, Satish, Ravi, Harish, Ramesh and Jogayya left for fishing on the deep sea trawler, Suvarna Tribhuja, from Malpe at 11 PM on December 13 and remained in contact […]

Bengaluru: Polling for the by-elections for three Lok Sabha and two Assembly constituencies began on Saturday, November 3. By-elections are being held in Shivamogga, Bellary (ST) and Mandya Lok Sabha constituencies, Ramanagara and Jamkhandi Assembly seats. There are total 31 candidates in the fray in all the five constituencies. It is said that the contest […]

Bengaluru: CM H D Kumaraswamy and former PM H D Deve Gowda met union home minister, Rajnath Singh, and requested the union government to help in the rescue of Karnataka government and seeked financial help to the state. CM submitted a report which included reports of areas affected by rains, “Total of 2,910 km road […]

Bengaluru: The three-month-old Congress-JDS coalition government will be expanded in the third week of September with the induction of seven ministers, former chief minister Siddaramaiah said on Friday. The Congress heavyweight, who heads the coordination committee of the two parties, made the statement after the committee meeting. “We have taken a decision to expand the […]

Mangaluru: Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy’s entourage, which is en route to Kukke Subrahmanya Temple, has been delayed due to water logging on Mangaluru-Bengaluru National Highway-75 at Udane. Kumaraswamy and his family are travelling from Dharmasthala to Kukke, via the Puttur-Jalsur route, to perform special rituals at the temple. The chief minister is likely to […]

Bengaluru: Karnataka State Cabinet has approved the waiver of short-term crop loans up to Rs 1 lakh borrowed from cooperative banks on Thursday, August 9th. The decision follows state government’s promise in the state budget on July 5th and is expected to cost the exchequer Rs 9,448.61 crore. After reports emerged of a number of […]

Udupi: A memorandum listing out demands of fishermen relating to Malpe port in particular and coastal Karnataka in general was handed over to chief minister H.D. Kumaraswamy in Bengaluru by a delegation representing Malpe Fishermen’s Association, led by local MLA K Raghupati Bhat and Kaup MLA Lalaji R Mendon. The delegation met the CM at […]

Bengaluru: The JD(S)- Congress state cabinet won’t be extended anytime in the near future, sources have said. However, the designation of presidents for state corporation boards will happen soon. At present, six ministerial positions are empty under the Congress. In excess of twelve senior MLAs are campaigning to get incorporated into the service. They are […]

Bangaluru: Ten days after coming to power, the JDS-Congress ministry in Karnataka is set to be expanded on June 6, as the two parties reached a power sharing arrangement after intense haggling and announced their decision to fight the Lok Sabha polls as pre-poll allies. Capping protracted hard bargaining with Congress top central leadership stepping […]