Karnataka has emerged as India’s No.1 state in terms of installed solar power capacity overtaking early leaders such as Gujarat and Rajasthan, according to the latest numbers from the Minister of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India. According to these numbers, the south Indian state accounted for almost a whopping 19% of India’s total […]
Kerala reported 62 new Coronavirus cases on Saturday, marking a record for daily additions since it started reporting COVID-19 from January. Out of the 62 new cases, 6 are cases of local transmission, 7 are local health workers, 31 are among people who returned from other states and the remaining are among people who came […]
Karnataka has announced rules for Lockdown 4 under which public transport will be allowed to ply. There will be restrictions on the entry of people from Maharashtra, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu. Almost all the relaxations allowed by the central government will be implemented in Karnataka. Parks will be opened twice a day. Trains running within […]
Supreme Court of India today refused to stay an order by Kerala High Court directing Karnataka to open all its roads to Kerala for essential traffic. Karnataka had, a week ago, closed all the major roads from Kasargode district in Kerala — a major Coronavirus hotspot with around 150 COVID-19 cases. Karnataka government dumped truckloads […]
The Supreme Court has allowed the rebel Congress and JD(S) members of the Karnataka Assembly to contest in the upcoming bypoll on Dec 5. The ruling is a big boost to the 17 MLAs who helped the BJP come back to power by resigning from their seats and reducing the head count of Congress and […]
While many English language channels have had alternate audio feeds for some markets, Discovery channel has become the first to offer feeds in all South Indian languages, including Malayalam and Kannada. Most multi-language channels come with audio feeds in four or five options – English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Bengali. Languages whose speakers typically tend […]
A day after it imposed monetary penalty of Rs 7 crore on four PSU banks, the Reserve Bank on Monday slapped a fine of Rs 4 crore on Mangaluru-headquartered Karnataka Bank for delays in the implementation of new controls relating to the SWIFT system of international payments. The private sector lender was one of the […]
The Income Tax Department has ‘provisionally attached’ Mindtree shares worth Rs 660 cr belonging to VG Siddhartha, the founder of Cafe Coffee Day and the son in law of former Congress leader and Karnataka Chief Minister SM Krishna. Mindtree said it received intimation from the Income Tax Department that it had provisionally attached about 75 […]
The Bharatiya Janata Party continues to face headwinds in Karnataka, six months after the party made an abortive attempt to capture power in the state despite coming short of majority in the state elections. The state is counting the votes from five by-polls today, including two assembly seats and three Lok Sabha seats. LAST ELECTION […]
Bharti Airtel said it will add 13,000 new mobile sites and introduce a key element of 5G technology in Karnataka in the next six months as part of its network upgrade. It also plans to add 4,500 km of optic fiber within the state in the same time period. As part of the upgrade, it […]
Bharatiya Janata Party put up a stronger performance in city councils than in towns and villages in Karnataka local body elections. According to the results as of 11:35 AM, the BJP was leading in or had won 352 seats out of the total of 927 seats in 29 city councils for which elections were held. […]
St Agnes College, one of the top destinations for higher education for women in Mangalore, has invited protests by some Muslims for continuing with its ‘no hijab’ policy inside classrooms. The college, run by Sisters of the Apostolic Carmel Congregation, said students have to conform to the college’s dress code that has been in existence […]
The coveted finance portfolio of the newly formed Congress-JDS alliance is likely to be retained by chief minister H D Kumaraswamy, while Home is likely to go to the Congress, according to sources. The two alliance partners have been in talks for several days on dividing the various portfolios between themselves. It has already been […]
BJP sources are reported to have started indicating to media that the party is not interested in winning ‘by hook or crook’ and may not go through with the trust vote if it is not able to garner the requisite numbers. The move indicates that the ruling front may have failed to achieve its target […]
Two MLAs of the Congress Party in Karnataka, Pratap Gowda Patil and Anand Singh have missed the roll-call for taking oath have been tracked to Goldfinch hotel in Bangalore. A team of police has been dispatched to the hotel to ‘rescue’ the MLAs who are reportedly ‘being held captive’. UPDATE: ALSO SEE Karnataka Trust Vote: […]
The Supreme Court has refused to remove BJP leader KG Bopaiah as the temporary speaker of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly, but restrictions on the live broadcast of the trust vote on TV channels have also been removed. The same bench that had earlier directed the trust vote to be conducted today also said that the […]
BSP Supremo Mayawati today ‘advised’ the Congress party to learn its lessons from the situation in Karnataka and not try to use any and every trick in the book to deride its opponents, especially if they are in the ‘secular’ camp. Mayawati was referring to the fact that the BJP won many seats in Muslim […]
The Supreme Court has intervened in the decision by the Karnataka governor to invite the Bharatiya Janata Party to form the next government and asked the BJP to produce the letters it wrote to the governor. A bench of Justices AK Sikri, SA Bobde and Ashok Bhushan refused to pass any order staying or stopping […]
KARNATAKA ELECTION RESULTS – 2018 2018 Vote Share% 2013 Vote Share% BJP 105 36.5 40 19.9 INC 76 37.9 122 36.6 JDS 39 18.1 40 20.2 OTHERS 2 NA 2 NA Refresh The Bharatiya Janata Party is all set to fall temptingly short of the halfway mark in Karnataka Legislative Assembly, making it more […]
The Supreme Court today asked the government why it was dragging its heels on the implementation of the court’s order on the sharing of the Cauvery river water. The court asked the center to file a draft sharing plan by May 3. The court’s sharp comments come in the context of it missing the March […]
