Mangaluru : The Suratkal police have arrested Hindu Mahasabha State President Rajesh Pavitran on the charges of threatening to leak the private information of a businessman on social media if his demand for gold and cash was not yielded to. According to the complainant Suresh, a resident of Kavoor, he and Rajesh Pavitran had decided […]

Udupi : ‎At a function held at a private hotel in Bengaluru on Saturday, former minister Pramod Maharaj, former MLA joined the BJP in the presence of chief minister Basavaraj Bommai and state president Nalin Kumar Kateel.‎ Earlier today, Pramod Madhwaraj announced his resignation from membership of the Congress party. Varthur Prakash, Malur Manjunatha Gowda, Lakshmi […]

Bangalore : The recently appointed state president of JD(S), A Krishnappa, who was a candidate from Tumkur in the April 17 Lok Sabha polls in Karnataka, died of heart attack here on Wednesday. He was 68. Krishnappa was at a college club near his house in his former K R Puram constituency in Bangalore when […]

Bangalore : The names of former CM DV Sadananda Gowda and Mangalore MP Nalin Kumar Kateel  are doing the rounds for the post of State BJP Presidentship following the exit of KS Eshwarappa. According to sources, one among the two may be chosen for the top post in another three to four days. Sources also […]

Bangalore: BJP central leaders Arun Jaitley and Dharmendra Pradhan held discussions with senior party figures from Karnataka on Tuesday on former Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa’s demand to make him the State president or face the prospect of his exit from the party. Mr. Yeddyurappa left for his home town of Shikaripura in Shimoga district […]